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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 3 May 2005 14:16:11 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Christian Treczoks wrote:
> > In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > I'll be buying a few
> > > just for the TTX stickers though, there are a LOT of TTX car types out there...
> > Call me ignorant, but what the heck is this "TTX", anyway? A kind of track
> > gauge?
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> > Wondering,
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> > Christian Treczoks
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> Its like 1:120 scale modeling, but with stronger frames and chunky tires
> Oh no, thats BMX
(for those that don't get the reference, TT is one of the "Classic" scales in
Model Railroading, along with:
- N 1:160
- HO 1:87
- S 1:64
- O 1:48
Out of those 5, it's probably the least popular or least well represented by
manufacturers. In fact it could be viewed as sort of a historical oddity, it was
introduced before manufacturing technology was good/cheap enough to make
reliable N stuff and for a time was the smallest commercial scale.
(N has in turn been eclipsed as smallest commercial scale by Z which is 1:220)
Hope that helps.
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| (...) It's not a historical oddity in Europe, where several companies are still producing incredible stuff and among scratch builders it's still populair because of the high degree of detailling compared to N vs the smaller footprint of h0 (it's h0 (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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