Talk:HOn30 gauge

Merge proposal
I'm proposing merging this article with HOn30 and OO9. HOe is another term for HOn30 so the two topics should be merged as Wikipedia is not a dictionary. OO9 is another scale but extremely close, and often interchanged. As an example, view On30. --Michael Johnson 11:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I think this was a bad idea - it is a lot more difficult to find HOn30 here now, and HOe is tied to European activity while HOn30 is tied to the Americas. Can we find a way back? Jrygh 21:39, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I think one article on both H0n30 and HOe is a good idea - they are the same scale. There is only one artilce on HO and that covers both the Americas and European subjects. Zabdiel 10:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

New image required
The image we have in this article is pretty much useless. It might be of a HOe layout, but has no track or rolling stock to be seen. Ideally, a picture that shows both regular HO and HOe equipment side by side would be the most illustrative, if possible also with some kind of measure or a scale (a simple pencil placed next to a loco would do just fine). --Agamemnon2 08:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Origin of HOe name
I've removed the following from the article as it isn't written in an encyclopedic style: "Nobody seems very sure whether the e suffix in HOe derives from Eggerbahn who first popularised the combination of HO scale and 9 mm gauge track or 'etroite' the French word for narrow gauge as in voie etroite." Zabdiel 14:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * H0m: m is for Meterspur (German word for metre gauge); H0e: e is for voie étroite (French word for narrow gauge railway and H0f: f is for Feldbahn (German word for field railway).--586 FYN (talk) 18:07, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Another possibility for the origin of H0e
Could the `e' stand for `eng' the German word for narrow? If there is definite information on this then it could be included in the article. Barney Bruchstein (talk) 16:04, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Citation required
Please be aware that an a fact tag has been placed on this article in December. Without a citation to backup the claim it will be removed as per policy. Bjmullan (talk) 12:11, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

783 mm
The "true" prototype would be 783 mm gauge. This gauge does not exist in real life. The article explains, that:
 * Model rail gauge is 9 mm (s.g. by N scale; 1:160).
 * Rolling stock is HOe (1:87) applied to some narrow gauge stock (~750mm–800mm), resulting in: a 9mm gauge for the rolling stock. So they fit!
 * -DePiep (talk) 20:35, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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H0x or HOx
This article is not consistent on whether to use number '0' or letter 'O'.

If it started with explaining that both are in use, then went over to using one of them, but making sure that all different scales were, when first mentioned - shown with both.

Like "HOe/H0e" the first time and then always "H0e" or always "HOe" all the following times. –Øyvind Teig (talk) 09:52, 1 May 2020 (UTC)