Re: [GZG] Tanker Pods but wanders off in a wee world of its own

The Roam wheel widths are pretty much dependant on the width of a
horse's bum so we are stuck with that – so we get 4'8½" standard
gauge, 5'3" Irish standard gauge and the also slightly larger Russian
and Iberian gauges. Though even if the track seize is the same the
loading gauge, sorry, it is the kinematic envelope or some such, that is
the killer and where Britain suffers very badly as its loading gauge is
much more restricted than the European standard let alone the American
one. An honourable exception being the former GWR lines originally built
to Brunel's (vastly superior but more expensive) 7' broad gauge.

This is rather off topic but probably sufficiently interesting to pass
on a low traffic day. It might be useful as well – I am now wondering
if they would build railways on a colony world and what gauge they would
be. I bought some O gauge track and based it in 2' lengths on MDF shaped
and ballasted to look like a permanent way and I think it makes a
wonderful addition to the wargaming tabletop. I lucked onto a pile of
Atlas American O gauge boxcar kits very cheaply and these should
eventually make their way onto the tabletop. A railway stop would make a
nice objective and I think there are photos of French Char B1s caught on
a train before they could be unloaded and a similar scene in a novel
with German or American AFVs caught on a train – possibly 'The Ten
Thousand' by Harold Coyle (not Xenophon if there are AFVs – if they
had had them they would have gone to Persepolis – now there is an idea
for an alternative history story, drop a modern
 NATO force on exercise into the past. Fun and games until the POL runs
out).

If we knew the scale of the GZG auxiliaries we could measure them and
calculate the approximate size of the pods. Not a great excuse to buy
one though but I think I will put one or two on my Christmas list.

Michael

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