HOn30 gauge
modelling of narrow-gauge railways
HOn30 (also called HOn2½, HO9 and H0e) gauge is the modelling of narrow-gauge railways in HO on N-gauge track (9 mm / 0.354 in) in 1:87 scale ratio.
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The term HOn30 (and sometimes HOn2½) is generally used when modelling American railroads while H0e is used for European railways. In Britain, the term OO9 is used. All these terms refer to models of narrow-gauge railways built to the world's most popular model railway scale of HO (1:87) but using a track gauge of 9 mm (0.354 in)—the gauge used for N-scale models of standard-gauge railways. OO9 refers to OO scale, 1:76.2, models on 9-millimetre-gauge track. Although the track gauge is 9 mm, sometimes N-scale track per se is not used because the ties or sleepers are out of scale and too close together. As such, HOn30 track is available.
HOn30
HOn30 is often used to model the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railroads in the US state of Maine. The first HOn30 / HOn2½ ready-to-run (RTR) brand introduced in the US was the AHM MinitrainS, initially manufactured by Egger-Bahn and later by Roco and Mehanoteknika Izola, also known as Mehano.
Perhaps the most fascinating part of HOn30 is that RTR models are still scarce.
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