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This popped up when I logged into YouTube just now.

Not sure I have the dexterity or eyesight for T Scale, but this does show what is possible. Just imagine modelling the whole of the Isle of Man ......



Rik

That is very impressive, although it looks as though it is best viewed from a small distance. The close ups of the stock all look a bit iffy, hats off to him though. As you say Rik, I'm pretty sure I couldn't cope with it these days.

Oddly enough my son turned up at the weekend with a t gauge set . It's 1.450 scale just over 0.6mm to the foot . I converted a canteen of cutlery set wooden box for him to use as a layout box , but suggested he go for a guitar flight case for a bigger layout .

T gauge has been around as a commercial scale for a while.

The Penzance layout was at the AMRA Exhibition in Melbourne a couple of weekends ago. The builder exhibited his first linear motor powered layout of the Monbulk Creek bridge on the Puffing Billy line some years ago at an AMRA exhibition, back before Covid shut down local exhibitions for several years.

If you want to see how it works, this is the builders blog page. https://modelrailmusings.weebly.com/

There are other T scale layouts around locally that are conventionally powered, using commercial T gauge mechs. I saw the Orbost layout shown in the following link at an exhibition about 10 years ago, not long after the first RTR T gauge models came out of Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6y5VvLXok


I think I'll stick with 1:20.3 scale. At least I can see it and it's big enough to not disappear among tools on the bench if I put it down.

Graeme

I'm having enough problems seeing all the little parts on my HOn3 models, especially the shay drive kit.
No way could I work on something TT scale.
Very impressive none the less!

What attracted my attention is the vehicles moving along the roadway.
Very impressive all over.

GAP wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 8:21 pm What attracted my attention is the vehicles moving along the roadway.
Very impressive all over.

Yeah, what was that, some sort of magnetic drive?

Bad Droid wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 10:27 pm

GAP wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 8:21 pm What attracted my attention is the vehicles moving along the roadway.
Very impressive all over.

Yeah, what was that, some sort of magnetic drive?

If you look at the blog link in Graeme's post above, and then drill into it, there is an explanation of how the road works. It left my brain spinning but basically as I understand it there are countless sets of tiny ( 4mm diameter) magnetic coils under the roadways, 2mm apart in groups of three, and they are sequentially energised by computer to give N pole, S pole and neutral and the magnets on the bottom of the vehicles are then pulled along from one to the next, 1mm at a time...or something! There are also explanations as to how vehicles are randomly added and removed from the flow without crashing! As I said, my brain 'urts!

philipy wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:49 am
If you look at the blog link in Graeme's post above, and then drill into it, there is an explanation of how the road works. It left my brain spinning but basically as I understand it there are countless sets of tiny ( 4mm diameter) magnetic coils under the roadways....

I read a little bit of the blog but didn't dive that far in. I figuered it was magnetic but had no idea about his design. And you're right, it hurts.

At the other, other end of the scale, linear induction motors are used on full-scale PeopleMover systems:

(Linear induction motor talk starts around 5:30, motors visible along the middle of the tracks)

I used to have that system on my N gauge layout, it was brilliant, but those magnets are really small and I lost quite a lot of them...

Never mind the carpet monster, you could lose some parts behind bits of fluff!

I have looked at T gauge myself and got as far as buying some bits - now surplus to requirements if anyone's interested? The idea was not a small scale main line layout, though I do sometimes wonder what a section of the Settle - Carlisle (maybe Blea Moor, Dentdale?) would look like.

The idea was to model a garden railway on an indoor layout - a not quite to scale 7.25 inch gauge in 1:76 or thereabouts. Maybe something along the lines ( - sorry!) of Chris Vine's 'Peter's Railway' or a miniature railway laid on the trackbed of a lifted standard gauge branchline. Unfortunately Fate intervened and slashed modelling time for many years so I never got beyond getting the loco out and testing it on the oval of track. And thinking about it. Now I'm close to a couple of 7.25 gauge lines I feel the temptation to revive plans but I've just too much on for that to be realistic. I can still think about it in idle moments though!