Matter of Scale
Pat Gorman has an interest in railroads and in ships, including the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg in April 1912 in the North Atlantic. Gorman, who once owned a hobby shop, decided to create an HO scale model of the Titanic, in part because he knew that certain items he needed, e.g., people, were easily available in HO scale, which is 1:87 (3.5 mm to 1 foot of the prototype)
Although the model remains a work in progress, it is substantially complete. It is shown sitting on a picnic table at Headlands Beach State Park near Mentor, Ohio. To show the size of Titanic, Gorman brought along an HO scale model of an F7 locomotive painted in the livery of the Bessemer & Lake Erie, one of his favorite railroads.
Matter of Scale
Pat Gorman has an interest in railroads and in ships, including the ill-fated White Star liner Titanic. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg in April 1912 in the North Atlantic. Gorman, who once owned a hobby shop, decided to create an HO scale model of the Titanic, in part because he knew that certain items he needed, e.g., people, were easily available in HO scale, which is 1:87 (3.5 mm to 1 foot of the prototype)
Although the model remains a work in progress, it is substantially complete. It is shown sitting on a picnic table at Headlands Beach State Park near Mentor, Ohio. To show the size of Titanic, Gorman brought along an HO scale model of an F7 locomotive painted in the livery of the Bessemer & Lake Erie, one of his favorite railroads.