Talking T Gauge

TBA · Joined: 08 Sep 2008 Posts: 120 Location: Massachusetts

I found this freight train set at a local hobby shop several years ago. As you can see from the packaging card, it was sold as a miniature "park train". I wonder if it may have been repackaged architectural model items. Their website http://www.kramerproducts.com/ shows the same train packaged in a set of playground accessories , but I don't see it listed separately. Check with them I suppose.

Trucks appear to have been mastered with rod and I-beam stock. As you can see, detail is very minimal. The pieces came spraypainted.

In the bottom two pictures the train is sitting on a strip of Evergreen 4mm channel. The "gauge" of the inner edges of the channel measure out to about 2.85mm, so you can park a T-Gauge train on it. Although it is flexible, it doesn't want to curve sharply. For my friend "Neil McNeely", it's a 2.5" gauge model. Smile

DanMacK · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, it definitely has possibilities as a base for a dummy loco. Maybe park it on a siding somewhere with the rolling stock (adequately detailed of course) or possibly recast it in resin for a lighter body?