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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 16:41:29 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> (for those that don't get the reference, TT is one of the "Classic" scales
> in Model Railroading, along with:
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> - N 1:160
> - HO 1:87
> - S 1:64
> - O 1:48
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> 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.
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 btw, from [h]alf 0, since 0 in Europe is between
1:40 and 1:45, it's only the trackwidth they're all agreed upon)
--
Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/
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| (...) (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 (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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