{"id":372,"date":"2010-11-13T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=372"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:46:40","slug":"new-engine-new-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/new-engine-new-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"New Engine, New Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/201708315171816773_4b47492e49_o-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/201708315171816773_4b47492e49_o-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/201708315171816773_4b47492e49_o-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/201708315171816773_4b47492e49_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/201708315171816773_4b47492e49_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/201708315171816773_4b47492e49_o.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Back 2 Bay 6 7\/8&#8243; Scale Davenport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I didn&#8217;t jump on buying the Roundhouse Katie back a year ago. Rather today I made a purchase of the 7\/8&#8243; scale Davenport made by Back to Bay 6 in the UK. I follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-8ths.info\/\">SE Lounge Forum<\/a> rather religiously and have always been impressed by the size and quality of the 7\/8&#8243; scale model presented there. I don&#8217;t have too much invested in 1:20.3 rolling stock at the moment and several people have kitbashed the Regner Konrad into 7\/8&#8243; scale. Here&#8217;s one example done by Rob Bennett:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed ye-container\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZkpSwScLoZc\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"New Engine, New Scale\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"New Engine, New Scale\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2010-11-13T18:48:42-05:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZkpSwScLoZc\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZkpSwScLoZc\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZkpSwScLoZc?modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I didn&#8217;t jump on buying the Roundhouse Katie back a year ago. Rather today I made a purchase of the 7\/8&#8243; scale Davenport made by Back to Bay 6 in the UK. I follow&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/new-engine-new-scale\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marchlyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}