TT Scale

[R. T. POTEET]

The web sites above have some manufacturer's.  There are a couple more.  Basically, there's just about enough to get you started, some cars, some engines, some track, some buildings.  It's unfortunate because this is really the perfect size for a 4x8 sheet of plywood layout.

Enjoy

Paul 

IRONROOSTER, you are absolutely correct, it is an ideal scale/size because it is perfect for fitting onto that iconic 4 by sheet of plywood; it is unfortunate that it has such p-poor commercial support.

[IRONROOSTER]

The web sites above have some manufacturer's.  There are a couple more.  Basically, there's just about enough to get you started, some cars, some engines, some track, some buildings.  It's unfortunate because this is really the perfect size for a 4x8 sheet of plywood layout.

Enjoy

Paul 

[R. T. POTEET]

When I got in the hobby in 1962 I gave some consideration to going into TT Scale but the proprietor at my local advised me against it and I took his advice; it did not take me long to realize that not only was it a minority scale it was a very minority scale and it got even more minority with each passing year.

It has never completely passed out of fashion but, unlike OO Scale which has virtually no commercial support whatsoever, TT Scale manufacturers here in the U. S. of A are few and far between and you had better be a proficient scratchbuilder if you want to do anything with it.

TT Scale, at its inception in 1946 or 1947 showed promise for meeting the need for those individuals wanting a scale smaller then HO Scale; unfortunately it was only smaller by about 27.5% and that was not enough to get space cramped modelers to bolt HO Scale.  HO Scale had been 45% smaller than O Scale; N Scale, when it made its debut in the early '60s, was 45% smaller than HO Scale and that did attract the attention of space cramped modelers.

There is, I believe, a TT Scale SIG within the National Model Railroad Association.  

[garya]

There is some TT available in the US. See http://www.ttscale.com/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTSMR/

It tends to be a scratchbuilders scale in the US, but there are some people who do it. I'd model TT if my skills were better.

[pcarrell]

It's available....if you look around.  It's not very popular though.  There are more Z scalers that TT.

[Flint Hills Tex]

I have a 1953 edition of Model Railroader's "An Introduction to Model Railroading" by Linn Wescott. In the chapter on model scales, he mentions TT scale (1:120). I live in Germany and am familiar with TT here, which has experienced a comeback in the last 20 years. Is TT at all available in the U.S.? What ever became of it?