Yep! This is Small

[Drucifer]

T-Gauge

 

[brickbuilder711]

T-Gauge

Wow! Must be expensive and very delicate.

 

[freightcar2]

Wow... :hehe:

 

[Michael_Evans]

These model railroads are getting so small, you'll need a microscope to see them.

 

[braintrainz]

You must be kidding me! does it have lights or function as electric trains do?
Wouldn't it be wild if they could have DCC sound for that!

 

[spiffy101]

Well, as they get smaller, they also get more exspensive I'll stick with my Lionel

 

[PerRock]

leave it to the Japanese to come up with that....not that that is a bad thing....

If you think about it; it makes a lot of sense. You are a single guy living in a small apartment in Tokyo. You like Trains (maybe you work for JR, or something) and want to have a model layout, but don't want to have it take up that much space. Even Z is too big for your apartment. Hence T.

Having said that I think I'll continue my plans using N.

peter

 

[Klinger]

considering how small that is, it has quite a bit of detail

 

[Drucifer]

You must be kidding me! does it have lights or function as electric trains do?
Wouldn't it be wild if they could have DCC sound for that!

You do realize that T-Gauge in the FIRST POST is a hot link to its website?

 

[Red_Rattler]

And in the Guiness Book of Records (GBR), a while ago, it had a photo of a model train that you really did need a microscope to see. I think it was only a few centimetres long for about 10 freight cars or so. I'm not sure, but I think the GBR called it "air-train" or something like that.


Now where did I put my 7 car train again?

EDIT 19:56 Thu 25/9/2008: By the isn't the more correct term T-Scale, and not T-Gauge?

 

[freightcar2]

I think they look cute

 

[robbiehanson]

@Red_Rattler: Scale is how big the train is. Gauge is how big the track is. Technically, with this, either would work.

A few links relating to this:
http://1-450.blogspot.com - 1:450 blog
http://talkingtgauge.s2.bizhat.com/ - 1:450 forum
http://www.zen98812.zen.co.uk/480scale.html - 1:480th scale in the 1950s, and some 1:240(Z scale) live steamers!
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=100632 Some American passenger cars--things are looking up!

This is a fascinatingly small scale; I'm seriously tempted to buy a set

 

[firemanMRP]

T Gauge

Hi Dru and I am thinking back many years the T gauge is a Postage Stamp Trains Mario

 

[JCitron]

Hi Dru and I am thinking back many years the T gauge is a Postage Stamp Trains Mario

These are the Postage Stamp Trains. I have an original set of N-Scale Postage Stamp trains. This was my first N-scale trainset my grandfather bought me when I was about 5 years old. The locomotive is still operational today and so are the freight cars. The track is still around and mixed in with my other track that's put away now, and the transformer died of old age.

Anyway, back to topic. The T-scale looks pretty neat, but a bit too small for me. I can barely see the text in magazines even with my glasses so trying to work with something this small would be utterly frustrating.

This scale is a about 1/3 N-scale. If someone ever comes up with some steam locomotives and old-style American passenger cars that could fit these small chassis, there could be some real N-scale narrow gauge equipment running out there since this scales takes 4% grades very nicely. These tracks wold be even narrower than the Z-scale ones used for narrow gauge N.

Imagine towering N-scale mountains with a really small narrow gauge train running up along the ledge to a town on the other side of the mountain. In the valley are the standard gauge N-scale trains running and meeting at the base station.

Another thought is to keeping small locos and cars, and set them up as an amusement park ride.

John

 

[DeRiCo]

My thoughts are of coffee table layouts.

One could set up a very decent layout at this gauge size.

Dennis

 

[hpoznanski]

My thoughts are of coffee table layouts.

One could set up a very decent layout at this gauge size.

Dennis

More like coffee table railroad empires.

 

[K4driver]

TO SMALL!!!! I think i will stick with H.O scale