Z scale!!! How come I never see anything in MR about this??

[SpaceMouse]

Z Scale - Up and Coming?!?!!1LOL!

Get on the page, bro! - T scale be where all the Kool Kids hangin'!

(Still waiting for a small enough scale so I can have a working model Garden railroad on my HO scale layout)

More T(three) 1:450 Baby!!!

T, that's gigantic. What about 1/600 scale.

[chutton01]

Z Scale - Up and Coming?!?!!1LOL!

Get on the page, bro! - T scale be where all the Kool Kids hangin'!

(Still waiting for a small enough scale so I can have a working model Garden railroad on my HO scale layout)

More T(three) 1:450 Baby!!!

[selector]

To answer the question, though, how many dollars have you or your friends spent in the scale in the past, oh, 10 years?  Me, I've not a red cent invested in the scale, and the probability is declining rapidly.  So, it's the market.  It is interesting, but it's the market...or rather, the lack of a substantial enough market that potential advertisers will pay the bucks to have ads in the magazine, and that governs what the magazine gives shrift to over time.  Simple, no?

[alco_fan]

Z scale in a briefcase
Model Railroader, April 2001 page 78
A folding portable railroad empire
( BRIEFCASE, LAYOUT, "SCHULTZ, JAKE", Z, MR )

[SpaceMouse]

One of the guys from my old club was a professor at the local university. He built a Z scale layout in his pencil drawer and during exams, he would run trains.

[tstage]

Sam,

3 or 4 years ago, there was an article in MR about a business man who built a Z-scale layout in an attache case.  It worked so well for him that he built 2 more and "attache"d them together.  It was quite amazing what he was able to construct.  I was also at the Pittsburgh World's Greatest Hobby (WGH) Train show this past January and there was one Z layout there.

Z-scale is pretty impressive to see.  However, you still won't and can't get the same detailing degree that you can with the larger scales.  Personally, I think it will always be considered a "novelty" and stay in a niche market.

Tom

[Tilden]

I have a z-scale layout.... right next to my flea circus....

Tilden

[loathar]

It's there! You just can't see it!

[CAZEPHYR]

  Z scale is the up and coming gauge with working street lights and even animation...

  I have yet to see a artical on this scale in the past 15 years...Its time that MR look at this again..

They do have some interesting locomotives now in Z scale but none of us older guys can spot the trains without a magnifying glass.    Could it be the same problem for the MR Team????

By the way, they are not cheap. 

Cheers

[Anonymous]

  Z scale is the up and coming gauge with working street lights and even animation...

  I have yet to see a artical on this scale in the past 15 years...Its time that MR look at this again..