hello to all I’m from romania and I have a tt model train and i looking for some new models to add on to existing one. i have 2 locos diesel shape 2 passenger cars and some fright car with 2 axles i have tunel and bridge too so and i have around 20 meters of track this includes turns too. 6 junctions and 3 x tracks. if enyine knows where i can get other models tell me.
Welcome to the forum!
Here are a couple of links to internet sites that might be of help:
TT Scale On-Line
http://www.ttscale.com/
http://www.thortrains.net/ttscale/ttdex.html
http://as.rumia.edu.pl/tt/?lg=EN
Yahoo Groups for TT Scale Model Railroading:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTSMR/
I found all those, and a lot more that I didn’t list, with a simple Google search. Go to www.google.com, and search on ‘tt scale’.
Hope this helps.
Ed
TT scale is tough–does anyone actually make TT scale equipment any more?
Yes the first site in Ed’s list above will link you to a few manufacturers.
Also B.T.S. http://www.btsrr.com/btstt.htm has some structures.
Enjoy
Paul
TT scale is, short after HO, the most popular model scale in Germany. There was a big market in eastern germany, covered by Berliner TT Bahnen (BTTB). In Western Germany, Rokal made some good models. After the german reunion, Tillig (www.tillig.com) became the worlds biggest manufacturer of TT scale equipment. They have a large product range, most models have german prototypes. You can find TT models also on the german ebay page, check it out at www.ebay.de
Welcome!
Do you model European TT or American? If you do European you shouldn’t have any trouble finding equipment. If you join the Yahoo group TTSMR there are guys from all over in Europe and the US, someone there should be able to help you. Tillig, Perveset and others are still doing a lot of European stuff.
If you’re into American prototypes, www.ttscale.com has a section of Products, they can help you get started. There isn’t a whole lot available, but more is slowly coming!
I nearly forgot about TT scale. I remember hearing a little bit about it when I was a kid, but have not heard much at all in my adult years (and there have been quite a few of them by now). Until this post, I can’t even remember reading a single post on this forum about TT scale. I had been considering the purchase of some TT scale people for my HO layout, simply because most “seated” HO scale people are too big to fit two to a seat in my passenger cars. I though TT scale people might fit just about right. I’ll have to check out the links to see if I can find anything I can use. Thanks to Ed for posting those links!
-Joe
Hi Joe,
If you search for Preiser or Merten you can find TT scale people. Usually they’re about the same price (or a little more :^( ) than HO ones. But if you’re artistic, you can buy the unpainted figures much cheaper. You can find the unpainted ones for about $15 for 72 people, painted ones can be the same price for a dozen! If you’re going to use them as passengers inside cars, you probably wouldn’t have to be too fancy either?
I you plan to model american, it’s going to be a tough one. TT should be the HO, because it’s metric!! 1/100 is much more easy than 1/87 any (metric) school ruler may be use as scale!. I’ve seen some layouts that use HO tracks for TT equipment. In the old days, TT shared the same popularity as N and O. Now days, HO is the king closely followed by N
Well, TT in most places is 1:120, a tenth of an inch per foot (or 2.5 mm per foot). Briti***T, or TT3, is 3mm to the foot. That comes out to about 1:100, but they use the same track gauge (.471 or 12 mm).
TT itself wasn’t originally metric. It is actually the only scale that was started in the United States. It was designed before WW2 by Mr. Hal Joyce who owned HP Products, but didn’t start production until 1946. One tenth inch scale is a common engineering scale, so Mr. Joyce assumed it would be a natural size for modeling. I still think it is! Wanna see a pic of our latest loco kit?
http://www.worsleyworks.freeserve.co.uk/Image-Pages/Image_TT-120_Diesel3.htm
Now this isn’t for you RTR guys, this kit comes as an etched sheet that you bend and solder or ACC together- TT ain’t for sissys!
Kind of ironic, the only scale that was All American barely survived here, but flourished in Europe!