N Scale NYC Subway Station

[peteski]

4 feet/12 cm above the floor.

4' = 48" = 2.54 X 48 = 122 cm

Also 640 feet underground seems a bit extreme.  That would be a very long walk up/down the stairs or escalators.  But since we read it on the Internet, it must be true! 

[aikorob]

Aikorob:  Assuming you're not joking, my track is about 4 feet/12 cm above the floor.  That would be 640 feet/195 meters in N scale.  Is Kyiv's subway really that deep?

Arsinalna station is 105 meters underground.

Metro stations in the USSR were planned as bomb/fallout shelters also

[nkalanaga]

Peteski:  I agree, 12 cm is a little short.  My only excuse is that I was tired, and left off the zero.  I didn't run that one through the calculator, just used 30 cm = 1 ft.  My layout height isn't exact, or consistent, anyway!

Aikorob:  That would be about 26 inches in N scale.  Could work for a layout that's wheelchair-accessible.  Has anyone ever built a permanent layout designed to be built and operated from a wheelchair?

[learmoia]

So the Internet yielded this:  "The shallowest station is the 42nd Street Shuttle platform, which runs in a northwest–southeast direction under 42nd Street east of Broadway, and is 20 feet (6.1 m) below street level. The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station runs 40 feet (12 m) under Seventh Avenue."
FWIW

20' in N scale would be 1.5" below ground.
Hard to believe 20' is road to track level.
Unless its directly under the road with a bridge.. like Park Ave.

40' in N scale would be 3" below ground.

Hard to believe 20' is road to track level.

[Stephane]

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