General Discussion (Model Railroader)

I happened to be surfing the net when I found this:

http://www.oobject.com/tiniest-gadgets/worlds-smallest-model-railroad/279/

 I guess model railroads are getting tinyer and tinyer......

Derrick Moore

If the sticky tape roll is standard size, there was a photo of a smaller HO layout published in MR half a century or so ago.  It consisted of a circle of rail on ties, gauged to a silver dollar.  The train ("Locomotive...without cars, carrying markers," Josserand, Rights of Trains.) was a Varney 'Little Joe' dockside 0-4-0T.

Who said HO was too big?

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

Wow that is neat ! IU wonder when MTH will come out with a bigboy or K4 to work on this scale. (Ducks and covers after that horrible attempt at humour )

Rob

corksean12 wrote:

Hmm cool but does it really work? I mean how do you make a loco that small?

In a really little factory?

There's a pin wire under the track that pulls it.

corksean12 wrote:

Hmm cool but does it really work? I mean how do you make a loco that small?

Good question........

DigitalGriffin wrote:

There's a pin wire under the track that pulls it.

You SURE??????

Yeah, but the question is, does it have DCC and sound?  I mean, c'mon!  If it doesn't have DCC, sound, and hidden staging plus time-table and train order operations with car cards and waybills, well...  It just isn't a model railroad, is it?