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zomer
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 Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:30 am Post subject: T-TRAK-T |
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Gday All
I have been invited to be the Australian T-TRAK-T coordinator.
This involves working out the dimensions for the modules and associated guidelines. At the moment we have a draft of the module measurements as shown below:
The dimensions are in metric to make it easier for the Australian market but I was thinking of making an imperial one at a later date.
I would appreciate any opinion or suggestion to the above draft. Any suggestion could make it easier to design dimensions that everyone is happy with.
I am meeting with Darren (B67) and Paul (victorian t gauge) on Saturday to discuss the draft in person and can table any suggestions made here.
A website has been setup and will be updated with any new developments or information:
http://users.picknowl.com.au/~austnscale/austtrak-t.htm
I will also post up developments on my Vic TGauge site.
I hope everyone is well and happy modelling.
Adrian
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rmyers
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: T-TRAK-T |
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| zomer wrote: | I have been invited to be the Australian T-TRAK-T coordinator.
This involves working out the dimensions for the modules and associated guidelines. At the moment we have a draft of the module measurements as shown below:
I would appreciate any opinion or suggestion to the above draft. Any suggestion could make it easier to design dimensions that everyone is happy with.
I am meeting with Darren (B67) and Paul (victorian t gauge) on Saturday to discuss the draft in person and can table any suggestions made here.
A website has been setup and will be updated with any new developments or information:
http://users.picknowl.com.au/~austnscale/austtrak-t.htm
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Ah, Adrian - it's good to have a real name. Great minds think alike  . This is just about identical to what I posted to the Yahoo T-Trak list. I also proposed 240 x 150 straight modules and 240mm corners. I also provided sketches for an inside corner and a junction module as these are popular in T-Trak(N).
One thing that your sketch doesn't make clear is that on the corners there is a 60mm straight before the curve starts. I think that this is an important fact. One of the things that I dislike about T-Trak(N) is its poor civil engineering. The corner modules run curves right to the end with no room for easements or straights to allow the equipment to straighten out before the next module.
Have you given any thought to module height, electrical or other issues. On electrical, my vote would be for staying with the T-Trak standard of both outside rails as being the same wiring code - this allows reversing module in the layout and makes junction modules simpler. As to height I'd vote for staying with the T-Trak 'shorter' standard of 70..76mm. Even with the small gauge, wiring, electronics, turnout and animation motors don't get smaller.
And stick with metric as preferred dimensions. We're designing around metric dimensioned track, even if we live in a country where we buy our wood in inches.
Great work,
Bob |
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B 67
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: T-TRAK-T |
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| zomer wrote: |
I am meeting with Darren (B67) and Paul (victorian t gauge) on Saturday to discuss the draft in person and can table any suggestions made here. |
I do hope you'll be bringing full-size mock-ups of the modules to 'assist' in our discussions. 
Should be an interesting day. T gauge talks, 5 and 7¼" gauge trains to play with, and a VIP guest - VIP for T gauge that is. 
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zomer
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Location: Victoria, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:24 am Post subject: Re: T-TRAK-T |
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| B 67 wrote: |
I do hope you'll be bringing full-size mock-ups of the modules to 'assist' in our discussions.
Should be an interesting day. T gauge talks, 5 and 7¼" gauge trains to play with, and a VIP guest - VIP for T gauge that is. |
Absolutely!!! I have already done seventeen modules all sceniced just to impress you Darren!
I love 'train' days!! The 'VIP guest' should be interesting too!!
I will post up any conclusions or ideas after our meeting.
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B 67
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:48 am Post subject: Re: T-TRAK-T |
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| zomer wrote: | | B 67 wrote: |
I do hope you'll be bringing full-size mock-ups of the modules to 'assist' in our discussions.
Should be an interesting day. T gauge talks, 5 and 7¼" gauge trains to play with, and a VIP guest - VIP for T gauge that is. |
Absolutely!!! I have already done seventeen modules all sceniced just to impress you Darren! |
Excellent! The photos will be on your blog any minute then? 
| zomer wrote: | I love 'train' days!! The 'VIP guest' should be interesting too!!
I will post up any conclusions or ideas after our meeting.
ZomeR |
After the meeting. Yes, that will be better. The module pics can wait.
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rmyers
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: New album |
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I set up a Picasa album with my T-Gauge T-Trak work in it.
The album address is http://picasaweb.google.com/rmyersfoo/TTrakT#
Here are my sketches for basic straight and outside corner modules:
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David K Smith
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: New album |
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| rmyers wrote: | | I'm having trouble getting the image tag to work. It's my first try at this. I am able to create a copy of the link to the Australian sketch that works. Maybe it's something to do with linking to Picasa. |
Picasa has made it a very unfriendly process to embed images in bulletin board applications like this forum.
You need to use the "Embed image" code, not the "Link" code.
Then you need to extract the image URL out of that code and place it into an IMG tag. (Be sure to select the image size first--it defaults to thumbnail!)
Example: Below, the URL is highlighted in bold. It always follows <img src= (also be sure to omit the quotes).
<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NSj9FWQ9SYX-lwEiyXeBDA?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_F9IuZckKa2c/SK9DvcXY_RI/AAAAAAAAFYo/Dr2r0xKJYvk/s400/IMG_0032_F.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/dks2855/Miscellany?feat=embedwebsite">Miscellany</a></td></tr></table>
When the above URL is placed into an IMG tag, the result is this:
If you don't want the image to display, but just want to link to it, then select the "Link" code from Picasa and just paste it into the message as-is; the forum code will automatically parse it as a link.
The result is like this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NSj9FWQ9SYX-lwEiyXeBDA?feat=directlink
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rmyers
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject: Re: New album |
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| David K Smith wrote: | | rmyers wrote: | | I'm having trouble getting the image tag to work. It's my first try at this. I am able to create a copy of the link to the Australian sketch that works. Maybe it's something to do with linking to Picasa. |
Picasa has made it a very unfriendly process to embed images in bulletin board applications like this forum.
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Thanks for the tip. I have no idea how long it would have taken me to figure that one out.
Bob |
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