2009 Perth Model Railway Show Real vs T Gauge vs N scale

[nuggles58]

After I took one apart for repairs, I had a good look at it. The motor is a fast motor to start with, and it only goes through 1 gear before the actual wheels. Most trains have at least 3 gears that slow the speed to a proper one. Unfortunately, these motors do not like low voltages, so you basically have to run them from half to full volts. After all, they do use 4.5v!

Would be good if they could run nice and slow!

[Hoffmanngerhard]

This is interesting, but I wonder why them "things" always go so fast..I have watched several of them and I would like to think that 'scale" is the issue here.  Imagine a "person, in scale" traveling in such a vehicle at such the speed, as they show..this person would be glued to the "wall" and throw htier collective cookies because of centrifugal force...

[mkmurray98]

i have a northfolfsouthern train

[EastMassParanormal]

holy crap 3mm!! I have a hard enough time with n scale.

[EastMassParanormal]

so t gauge is smaller than z gauge?I never knew that.

[nuggles58]

Yes. Z gauge is 1:220. T Gauge is 1:450. So T gauge is basically half the size of Z scale. The tracks are only 3mm wide, and it is hard to even put them on the track!