"B" sized pages, most drawings 1/4" scale
Got a proto copy of my book of AutoCad generated drawings of D&RG folio six . The pages are "B" sized, 11 x 17, so almost all the drawings are 1/4" = 1' 0" scale, or "O" gauge.
It's pretty big when opened up, over three feet across.
Included, as bonus drawings, are some locomotive drawings from the first 2-4-0 through the C-19's, a couple of the K-36, locos from the Colorado Southern, the Rio Grande Southern and the Denver, South Park & Pacific.
The hard part is figuring what to do next. Seeing if such a book is even wanted by anyone is step one, and then how to get it published... if warranted.
Even if nobody else wants one, I now have the only book in the world with the greatest concentration of detailed and accurate demensional information on the D&RG ever assembled under one cover.
This all started when I was a contest modeler in the NMRA, Rio Grande Division and badly needed good dimensional details of the models I was doing.
One of my contest models shown below took a couple years to gather enough information to build a reasonably accurate HOn3 scale model.
First place, passenger cars, 1981 RMR NMRA Denver convention.
(left click to enlarge)
Now that I have all manner of information, my eyes are too bad to do any serious modeling.
That's the way it goes.
