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rmyers
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
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Location: Evanston, IL USA
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 Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Intro, and Egad, it's tiny! |
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I haven't made the commitment to buy yet. I'm still at the exploratory stage.
My name is Bob Myers, and I'm an N-Scaler for about the past fifteen years and a member of the NorthWest N-Trak club.
In N, I've done everything from a 28" (700mm) square layout to participating in the construction of 2,000 sq. ft. (200 m2) club layouts and large NTrak setups. I'm an active Ntrak and T-Trak modeler.
T-Trak, for those who aren't familiar with it, is a table top modular system with roots back to earlier Japanese lay on the floor or table top modular systems.
On the T-Trak Yahoo list recently there has been discussion of creating a T Gauge variant of T-Trak. I started looking at T Gauge info over the past few weeks as the discussion piqued my interest.
I guess I'm approaching T Gauge from the back door. I've cut some pieces of masonite to the size of my proposal for modules, and created dummy track, and started to construct paper buildings to get a feel for T Gauge, and the practicality of modular railroading in it.
Now for my 'Egad, it's tiny!' moment. Yesterday, I printed out some paper buildings that I've used for N Scale mockups in T and finally got a direct one to one comparison. I also printed some paper models of 103 cars. These cars, about a quarter inch square in cross section really brought the size home.
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pray59
Joined: 05 Sep 2008
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Location: Fremont, CA
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We ran T Gauge all day both days at a train show last weekend. While running, (4 guys in our club have T Gauge) one of the guys proposed we build T Gaug4e T Track modules.
T Track is already familiar to us, as we are Z Scalers and several of the Z-Bend Track clubs we are affiliated with also have Z Scale T Track modules. There is also a Z Scale T Track Yahoo Group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttrakz/
-Robert
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rmyers
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
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Location: Evanston, IL USA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| pray59 wrote: |
T Track is already familiar to us, as we are Z Scalers and several of the Z-Bend Track clubs we are affiliated with also have Z Scale T Track modules. There is also a Z Scale T Track Yahoo Group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttrakz/
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Robert,
If you don't belong already, join the general Yahoo T-Trak list. There has been a bunch of discussion on it over the last few weeks about T Gauge. I've also started a file folder with some proposals for T Gauge T-Trak. Give a look and comments.
Thanks,
Bob |
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David K Smith
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Joined: 03 Sep 2008
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Location: New Jersey, USA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| rmyers wrote: | | There has been a bunch of discussion on it over the last few weeks about T Gauge. I've also started a file folder with some proposals for T Gauge T-Trak. |
Would it be useful to add a T-T-Trak forum (looks like I'm stuttering) to Talking T Gauge?
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rmyers
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
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Location: Evanston, IL USA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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David,
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Would it be useful to add a T-T-Trak forum (looks like I'm stuttering) to Talking T Gauge? |
I don't think so yet. There isn't a standard, just discussion and to my knowledge no real modules yet. Last weekend I started on some T-T-Trak module mockups. I figure that discussion of T-T-Trak can go in the layout section until it gets a little further along.
Thanks for the offer though,
Bob |
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AndyA
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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Location: Southampton, UK
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, if there is already activity on T-T-Track, then why not at least start a thread so that pointers to other sites can be added.
And...
I failed  to find hte general t track yahoo group, so a link to that would also be good.
regards
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Toni Babelony
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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Location: Bonn, Germany
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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i'm quite interested in this T-T-Trak concept. If there are some standards ready I might initiate a German T-Gauge group as a colleague from my study is also interested in T-Gauge.
However, I don't feel like mixing myself up in the discussion. Though, I'd suggest a dual gauge layout on an A4 module. Just like the original T-Trak concept.
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David K Smith
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Joined: 03 Sep 2008
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Location: New Jersey, USA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| rmyers wrote: | | David K Smith wrote: |
Would it be useful to add a T-T-Trak forum (looks like I'm stuttering) to Talking T Gauge? |
I don't think so yet. There isn't a standard, just discussion... |
Well, my thinking was that it could be a place for such discussion.
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