Anyone heard of "TT" scale?

[douginut]

TT means Table Top, is an "also ran" in North America being at 1/120 between N's 1/160 and HO's 1/87. As I remember TT Berliner Bahnen made some nice Eastern European/Soviet Bloc railroads. I think that Piko made some too. I remember a big article in Popular Mechanics about it from the mid fifties mentioning that it used motors from HO locomotives and they were great runners.

Doug,in Utah

[Anonymous]

Some one tried resurrecting TT scale in North America. If you want a TT train set, just contact Bill at www.central-hobbies.com a local Vancouver, BC store.

The unfortunate thing with this company that brought out TT was that it chose an engine that was small rather than taking advantage of the scales visual presence. So if you see the TT train set I am talking about, you won't be impressed as it isn't that big.

If it had been me and it was steam, I would have come out with one of the larger non-articulated steam engines, or if contemporary, can you imagine an SD90 in TT, I bet it would look great. TT is a market that has stolen defeat from the jaws of victory; which is too bad because there are many who would have preferred TT over N, me being one of them.

[Anonymous]

TT stands for TableTop. For a history and information on TT, try http://www.ttscale.com/w-home.htm. There's also a yahoo group, TTSMR.

I first saw TT in Germany a few years ago, and most TT equipment is from Europe. It started in the U.S., though, as 1/120th scale works out to one inch equals 10 feet, a common engineering scale at one time. It's easy to work out dimensions, as a 40 foot boxcar will be 4 inches long. You can get more layout than with HO but it's not so hard to see the details, as in N.

Why isn't it more popular? It's a tweener, like S--it's too close to HO and N. I think it's an ideal scale, too, and I'd like to do more with it as my skills improve. One of these days...

Gary

[Anonymous]

TT's advantage is that you can do with scenery what S scalers do with rolling stock but with less help from the MR manufacturers. I liked it because I could get so much onto my layout board compared to the 00 I had before. Of course I was just into my teenage years so I have no idea what happened to it all.

[Anonymous]

N-scale is 1:160 proportion, so TT at 1:120 is midway between HO and N. I have never seen any TT equipment or track, though it seems like it would be a rather ideal scale to work in, if it had the variety and availability if its larger and smaller siblings.

[Anonymous]

Hello Chris,

I had a Table Top scale layout many years ago in England. Mine was made by Trix.

[Anonymous]

I was reading a book on model railroading (Copyright 1968) and I noticed the in the scale chart "TT Scale"

This had got me wondering about it. Does "TT" Mean "Tiny-train" [:o)] (It's right below HO) Is it another reference to N Scale? ( It's 1/120 Compared to HO's 1/87)