shortliner Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 This TT(American) switching yard layout in a Guitar case was displayed at The Convention in Portland 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3qpAUwc_A May give people a few ideas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_tyne Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Interesting link there Jack! Certainly gives some ideas. I didn't even know American TT scale existed mind... shows my ignorance! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I didn't even know American TT scale existed mind... Don't worry, neither do most Americans... I have never seen a North American TT item or layout before. Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted August 31, 2015 Author Share Posted August 31, 2015 Outside USA, TT gauge is 1:100 or 3mm/foot . US TT gauge is a bit of an orphan, there TT scale is 1:120 scale, or ten feet to the inch scale. It uses track with rails gauged at 12mm. Compared to N scale, which is 1:160, TT scale is 33% larger. On the other hand, HO scale, at 1:87.1, is still substantially larger than TT scale. 1:120 scale is still in use today in a number of industrial and hobby applications outside of model railroading. I believe US TT is used by some traction modellers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hughes Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Brilliant! Calls to mind Mike Bryant's Inversneckie and Drambuie layout in OOO back in the early 50s, built in a pair of violin cases, and shows just what can be done in no room at all. BTW, who makes the typical Canadian spark-arresters in HO? I used to know, but lost the reference... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Stewart Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Outside USA, TT gauge is 1:100 or 3mm/foot . US TT gauge is a bit of an orphan, there TT scale is 1:120 scale, or ten feet to the inch scale. It uses track with rails gauged at 12mm. Compared to N scale, which is 1:160, TT scale is 33% larger. On the other hand, HO scale, at 1:87.1, is still substantially larger than TT scale. 1:120 scale is still in use today in a number of industrial and hobby applications outside of model railroading. I believe US TT is used by some traction modellers There is a small following for US TT, some ready to run cars and the SW1200, There is also an f3 and gp9 which can be motorised loads of information on the TTnut.com website. Colin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2015 US TT loco produced by Czech manufacturer MTB. I have a few of their Czech outline models in both TT and HO. Very nice models My laptop wont let me copy and paste the website link in here so just type in MTB-model.com, click on English version then select catalog TT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted August 31, 2015 Author Share Posted August 31, 2015 Sorry Jack, but Continental TT is most certainly 1:120, major manufacturers like Piko and Tillig say so British TT is indeed 1:100 (3mm to the foot (304.8mm) to cater for the smaller UK outline of models (same with H0 vs 00!) My apologies - I should have realised that if there was an outline sizing problem with OO/HO there would be between the two sizes of TT, as there is with N gauge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Ooh! So tempting! http://www.mtb-model.com/pages/product.php?id=31&lang=en&meritko=TT I hung my nose over the Kuehn stand at Cologne a couple of years ago but boy! The thought of US outline in this scale? Mutter, mutter, . . . mutter! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted September 3, 2015 Author Share Posted September 3, 2015 Another TT Canadian layout - and this has to be something different - the first time I've seen a moving "Flag man" at a railroad crossing on a model railroad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted September 3, 2015 Author Share Posted September 3, 2015 Clearly you've missed the Craigcorry & Dunalistair Railway then Jack Have a browse, the flag man is located in Dunalistair. IIRC Ted has even some film footage of it somewhere. Here's an image: click Note: none of this is mine! Made by Ted Polet, webmaster of the 009 Society Dutch group, quite a while ago (>10 years). Many thanks, DM - I had heard of Ted Polet, but to my shame, had never seen anything of his railway - very nice indeed - thank you for the links Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Another picture of this layout at the Vancouver Train Expo today: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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