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  • VERY impressive. Well done.

  • Holy crap that's tiny. I once saw a 00-scale model train layout at an exhibition with a similar idea, only the tiny layout was outdoors, and it didn't have any scenery, it was just a little white board with a tiny loco and 2-passenger-car train whizzing around it...I think it was 00 scale to the 00 world so yours kicks that one's butt.

  • wow this is fantasic!

  • Wow, this is truly amazing! I appreciate your great attention to detail! I’m sure this will look VERY impressive in the window of a Z scale hobby store. :-)

  • wow i wondered how it could work with it being so small, but in fact its a very simple concept but very clever at the same time.

  • Very nice work.

  • thats incredible. never thought i would see such a small train set

  • omg thats the coolest thing in the world. is there anyway i can buy one if your N scale working train set?

  • Oh, now I get it. The layout seemed way too small to be Z-scale, and I was confused at first. "Z-scale" means 1:220, so this is 1/220 times the size of the N-scale layout after which it is modeled. Cool!

  • dam it!! i dropped it!!! honey, where are my glasses.......

  • That has to be in the guinis book or world records man!

  • any university biology department should have several disecting microscope with video camera built in.

    you should ask them to record footage of this model, if you don't want to buy yourself a disecting microscope with video attachment.

  • @simhopp Thanks for the recommendation. Actually, I now own a camera capable of properly filming this; however, I simply have not had the time to do it. For one thing, the layout is installed inside a Z scale hobby shop on my layout (the James River Branch), and I'd have to dismantle the building to get to it. And so it goes...

  • Who ever made this needs something better to do in life

  • @aj8676 Absolutely! Got any recommendations?

    Didn't think so.

  • @jdk1928 Civil war reenacting... just an idea.... i dont agree with what he said but......

  • @aj8676 What is more sad is your comment, at least this guy did something. Looks like you need something better to do in life bud.

  • A model of a model... Modelception?

  • I was gonna bitch about the video quality until I saw the ballpoint pen. Now I say amazing!

    But it deserves better video. Could you set up a magnifying glass and aim your camcorder through it to record the train action? I am thinking you start out CLOSE so that the train and scenery fill the frame, then BACK OUT to REVEAL the magnifying glass and the true scale. You could have some small, known-size prop next to the train: coins? a wristwatch? a cigarette lighter?

    Love it.

  • i see that the piece of land inside the track would not be supported unless there was a mountain with a tunnel to hold it in place.

  • wow amazing great skill and wonderful way to make it work.all we need now is for you to sell these in small packages so i can buy 1 and trip out on it when i have a drink from a hard days work....excellent job my freind.

  • My gosh that is incredible! I didn't realize how small it was until you held it between your fingers. Impressive. Does the locomotive actually have a tiny motor in it? Does it run on track?

  • @IstvanN1961 To answer your questions, no, and no. Watch the video again, and you'll see exactly how the train is powered.

  • @jdk1928 Duh, now I get it. Pretty neat none the less. Is that how all Z-scale trains work?

  • @IstvanN1961 - No, Z scale trains are bigger than this - scale 1:220. This is a Z-scale model of an N-gauge layout (scale 1:(220*160) = 1:35200.

  • @jdk1928 Duh! Clever none the less. Do all Z-scale trains run like this?

  • @IstvanN1961 It's not a Z scale train. It's a model of a model. Pretend you're a little Z scale person (1:220) and you build yourself an N scale layout. That's what this is. Z scale trains are MUCH bigger--Google "Z scale trains" and you'll find out.

  • @jdk1928 Scale model for LEGO minifig?

  • cool!

  • All this work and not a decent camera to be found anywhere?

    I'd love to see it clearer.

  • @zoadam "Decent" is a relative term. It's an extremely challenging object to photograph well--I recently purchased a new camera that will do the job; now, I just need the time to shoot it.

  • @jdk1928 I'd suggest talking to a professional photographer about this. They usually have access to the very best equipment on the market (either directly or through connections) and they also possess the related know-how.

    Though it could be expensive to hire a great photographer with like hardware, I think most professionals would love to have such an original and challenging work in their portfolio so much that they might even do the shooting for free.

  • @zoadam I actually am a photographer. And other photographers I'm friends with all agree it's a tough challenge to shoot something so small, especially as it's not just a matter of knocking off a single macro shot; this has to be filmed on video. As I said, I now have the equipment to do it; I just need to find the time to get it done, because it's not something you can knock off in a few minutes; the setup for this will be hours.

  • @jdk1928 All right, I didn't know you were a photographer.

    In this case I'm eagerly awaiting more news from your amazing works :)

  • Twenty people can't make tiny model trains like jdk1928 can.

  • So the next challenge is to build a train that will move in the window of a shop in this tiny layout...? Just joking, especially the fact that your tiny train is in the window of a shop in your model train layout is great!

  • omg

  • WOW, that is AWESOME! Would look great in a small doll house even!

  • Incredible! Congratulations on this amazing piece.

  • Holy shit!! Its amazing an greatly worked! my only replic is based in this beauty piece can be better apreciated in a N scale layout.

    Congratulations for this intrepid accesory.

  • It is very impressive and clever. However, it seems to not technically be a train. It's probably not possible to make an actual train at this scale, unless nanotechnology has made some decent progress since I last read about it.

  • This is just for the record, not for fun.

  • Is the train actually detailed at all or is it just a bunch of little rectangles put together?

  • @nexusone1984 .....2 or 3 grains (~0.05 grams) to stay on it's track and conduct electricity? To do so would very nearly require employing nano-technology. A motor so tiny that the copper windings would be similar in size to a nanotube just isn't possible to manufacture right now. Unless you know something we don't.............

  • @nexusone1984 Let's give credit where credit is due. The train cars are about as wide as a razor blade. The track width would be something on the order of 0.008", which is the first problem. But more importantly, even if you could manufacture ~0.001" wide rails, where do you think you could find an electric motor small enough to fit in a locomotive ONE ONE-HUNDREDTH of an inch wide? And since T-scale already requires magnetic wheels for contact, how would you get a train that wieghs maybe...

  • Love it, especially when the ballpoint pen comes into shot.

    You've a great T Gauge website too!

  • id also fidn it ironic if there was a bigboy in that size lol

  • id hate to be the persion who gets them derailed them small trainds i mena ull need a micorscope to re rail them

  • wow...

  • you know your bored when u search "smallest" and click on this link

  • ik it dosent run on "tracks" so 2 say, but this is freaking beast! i give the guy that made this a thumbs up and a pat on the back, thats so freaking small!! good work!

  • They are going to put that in the window of a Z scale hobby shop........One question. Why? I mean will anyone actually be able to see it? It is impressive for its ingenuity, but I don't really see the point. Unless you have ants that like model trains.

  • @soundseeker63 I finally installed this in the hobby shop window as planned, and displayed the Z scale layout at an open house recently. The visitors could see the train moving on the layout in the window. It's actually not that hard to see, although you do need good eyesight.

  • @jdk1928 - so how many people gasped and said, "OMG - the little train's going round!!!"

  • @soundseeker63

    I think you wouldn´t ask "why" if you were a modeltrainer yourself. let alone the fact that YOU know for yourself, that there is such a modeltrain working in one of your hoses is worth the job. even if you don´t see it. it´s all about the details, things you have and others don´t (aka great ideas) and fun ofc.

    I think it´s great. never seen anything like it before. awesome job!

  • thhats friggen impossable! how?! i think its a fake. idk alot but i know enuogh tho say that thats impossable.

  • It makes a nice change from those who boast about the biggest.

  • lol, keychain train set :D this is pretty awesome

  • this is what mice play with :D

  • I saw these for purchase at a model train convention...

  • Lol@people who think they can do better...

  • jesus christ, that is amazing. cant believe the idiots on here trying to pick faults.

  • Ok, that just beacme one of the COOLEST things I have ever seen!!!!

  • Impressive and ingenious.

  • I'm surprised that there is even 1 negative comment here. It's fun, done because it could be and shows a great modelling talent :)

    A model is a model, a recognisable object from real life, sized down...which this is. The bonus being that it operates to the eye like a train. Some comments read more like jealousy to me.

  • @nexusone1984 You aren't paying attention. OK, here we go again. This is a model of a model. Can you get your head around this concept? It's a Z scale model of an N scale layout. Very close to scale, as a matter of fact. And this is NOT a copy of another video; this is the original, by me. If you can find anything else even remotely like this, please post a link! And yes, T is the smallest train that actually runs on track. I know, I have the largest website devoted to the scale--look it up.

  • OMG its so small

    

  • I love it, it's so cool, and I'm not even a train guy.

    However, I don't think it can count as a train - it's a plastic tube with a train stuck on top - surely the worlds smallest train still has to run on tracks.

    Awesomely cool nontheless.

  • one sneeze and it's gone, but it's cool anyway

  • @beriorgar Actually, you can sneeze all you want and it won't go anywhere...

  • @jdk1928 lol i gess that meas sneease hurricane proof lol

  • @jdk1928 yep coz it runs like the newcastle metro cervice lol

  • A model of an N Scale layout in Z Scale, That's incredible. Great Vid.

    If you thought of that, You have an Incredible imagination.

    Just thinking of the size is really something. Wow~!

  • wow that is incredible

  • how is that possible!!! That's insane!

    Great great job!

  • Cool!! now u can bring the fun of railroads wherever u go !!! :)

  • Sir, you are a Genious. Where do get gear motors?

  • whoa. the train kind of looks like some really fast maggots moving in a line...wicked cool.

  • you better make sure this doesn't fall on the floor and get lost in the carpet! haha

  • this amazing

  • And then on his wedding night as he popped into his itsy bitsy teeny weeny little bed his new wife exclaimed, "..."

  • Add new meaning for Micro Trains

  • So Cute!

  • Thats incredible. Working on my N scale layout is hard enough, my hat's off to you my friend!

  • Gee, you're game, taking on a project like that! Well done for pulling it off. Maybe you should be filming with a microscope attached to your camera!

  • HOLY SHIT, that's tiny

  • and this is why i love model making, when people do little things like this that you dont notice conciously

  • ingenious, i have wondered what a model railroad in a model railroad would look like great job !

  • Nice trick, totally tricked me, and even after learning the secret the trick still works :)

  • THAT WAS AWSOME NO LIE!

  • I have a fair amount of trouble working on and seeing things in N scale. I can't imagine working on something THAT small. I'm impressed!

  • it is great, but its nt exactly a model railway, as it does not have realy 'tracks'. its just the train glued on to the rotating tube.

  • DANG!!!! That's the COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN YEARS!!!!!!

  • That's absolutely brilliant!

    As a 3D modeller and aspiring model railroader, I know that the devil's in the details. And you sir, are a king of detail.

  • z scale great as you can build a huge layout in a small space, to the unimpressed,,WHAT, i just saw the part wih thw finger No Way! That is amazing! if you did not show how it worked nobody would beleave it.

  • WOW

  • so how do the people get into it?

  • @RadarSonic lololololol

  • So small. How's your eyesight holding up?

  • Great work!! At that scale, I could model the entire state of Virginia in the room where my HO scale layout is gonna be built...(of course they'd commit me to a lunatic asylum at some point, but hey)

    It's a great idea and don't mind the people discrediting it... Do you have a video of it in action in the hobby shop?

  • @jdk1928 If you have to explain it, you've failed at a proper description.

    Try something like this: "If an N scale layout had a Z scale layout modeled within it, this would be it."

  • if the price is the same as the Big one, i'd rather BUY the big one ;)

  • so cool

  • This is pretty amazing.

  • Congratulations, really impressive work. I've read other comments that say "i'm not impressed, i've seen bigger, blah blah", maybe is that they do not realize the dexterity required to make something that small, but i bet you don't get that sort of comments from children, they do really appreciate the marvel of small things.

  • the detail in that for such a small thing is amazing

  • make sure you dont drop it

  • So this is how the Large Hadron Collider works...

  • Genius! In a way, kinda reminds me of those amazing carvings on a grain of rice.

  • cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • or zoom in with HD camera

  • You should use a USB Microscope!

  • so technically wouldn't tis be a great doll house layout? or is it too small lol

  • Unreal! Its an amazingly thought out idea! You might have broken the world record for smallest model railroad!  I have had both N scale and Z scale and also HO model railroads so this is so very cool! NIce work!

  • COOL! I want 1 !

  • I'm sorry you were not impressed. But, as you may notice by many of the other comments here, being bigger is not always the most impressive thing for everyone. You would perhaps do better to watch videos of Lionel trains, if size is all that matters to you. Or, go visit your cousin.

  • I think the gothmog was just joking.

  • @thegothmog The idea behind this video was to make the SMALLEST train layout. Of course there's bigger ones. You've missed the point

  • @azayles Not impressed at all.

    Next time make something bigger. I saw the world's biggest ball of yarn recently. Now that was impressive!

  • @thegothmog there's a reason it's called world's SMALLEST train. it's not supposed to be big.

  • @thegothmog Wow. A troll and an asshole at the same time. I guess the two can be synonymous. I am sure it took you 30 minutes to formulate that response, too. And another 30 to type it.

  • Wonderful, awesome, brilliant and very smart!! Thanks for sharing.

  • Very impressed with the model, yes there is a problem with taking photos of small things, I have the same problem with parts for 5 inch gauge live steam, I now have a floodlight set up to add more light etc.

    Lovely idea using a tube.

  • WTF??????

    that shit is tiny!!!!!!

  • This is the cutest thing I have ever seen:)

  • in theory it wouldn't be hard to do....if you had the patience that is.

  • In theory anything is possible. Splitting the atom, making a building, extracting minerals from the Earth, climbing Mt everest, its actually doing them that makes the difference.

  • that's true.

  • Way cool!!! I got to have one of these.

  • holy shit.... have funn lookin for it....

  • lol! amazing though!

  • i wouldn't want to be the person to put that back on the rails!!

  • Wow.

  • how is that even possible :O thats crazy wild fun ! :)

  • so there isn't a 'track' as such? so its not technically a 'working model train layout' because it doesn't run on actual rails. Very impressive non the least. just a bit misleading

  • i guess its not a train cos it doesn't run on a track as such, but i will overlook that fact! how on earth did you manage to make the scenery, especially a tunnel!?

  • Great work but i just can't help thinking it's just an tip of some rubber tube that rotates...

  • This is always the risk when the magician reveals the secret of his trick.

  • things can be more simple as you imagine 5*****

  • @h0troddude

    That's true, but it's all in the effect. Watching a TV show, you don't think of a living room (for example) as being a set with three walls and no ceiling, right? One of the good things is, you never have to worry about the train derailing. ;)

  • Wow. That would suck if it derailed. It would NEVER go back on!

  • WOW! Incredible painstaking detail. This is a work of art!

  • THATS SO COOL!!

  • That is INCREDIBLE!! And I thought z scale was as small as they come! This is so cool! You could mount it on a watch band.

  • OMG THIS IS AMAZING!!!

  • do they sell this n can be bought publicly? please respond!:)

    thnks

  • This is a hand-made, one-of-a-kind item. It is not for sale. And if I made one to sell, it would be very expensive.

  • oh man so u made that yourself? WOW!!!!!! u are officilally now admired by the train colelcting world:)

  • Yes, I made it myself. I thought that was kind of self-evident from the video. If you'd like further details, plus information on all sorts of other things I've made, many of which are similar to this, please refer to the links in the video description.

  • WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Of all useless things I've ever seen. It is great! Love the idea. Really!!

  • This really isn't a train though (it has no wheels or track) - still cool though.

  • well if you think about. a track is just somthing used to guide an object aroud, so technicaly the slot is a track and a maglev is classified as a train yet it has no wheels. Plus the classifacationj of a train is a series of objects connected together with the ability to move, so technicaly thsi is a train.

  • wow, great work! :)

  • cool beans homey.

    my son is a train fanatic and i'm sure he will watch this vid a few hundred times when he gets home from school.

  • How to make would you teach if you like?

  • That is simply wonderful, I'll have to copy it!

  • insane

  • Astonishing !!!

  • Astonishing !!!

  • is this train in the guiness record book or whatever the name of it is?

    sry for ma bad english =D

  • No, it isn't.

  • I was expecting a track and such, but still pretty clever!

  • At this size, track and such would be all but invisible; as it is, the train can barely be seen by the unaided eye.

  • wow, after seeing the explanation that's amazingly simple to do at home.

  • Really awesome!

  • Cool......

  • Clever idea!

  • Wow. This is awesome.

  • It's awesome :) Nice work!

  • Amazing, I can do something similar to my HO layout and I never thought it would be so simple :).

  • Jáccá csak kisfiam, csak le ne nyeld a terepasztalt!

  • Just amazing...

  • Fantastic!

  • Incredible. It is so--tiny.

  • mawdsquad blathered "Very lame. I could cut tiny slits"

    THIS comes from a person who has no videos posted and no subscribers?? Exactly who is the lame person here?

  • My thoughts exactly. Anyway, a straw wouldn't work--too big and too stiff. So that part remains my secret.

  • We think this is a great piece of ingenuity. I love simple solutions that no-one thought of before. Kudos to Dave.

  • Thanks much!

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  • You are a heck of an engineer. Sure, after the reveal, any number of people could probably make one of their own. You thought up how to do it. Really cool.

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