Take a look at this!!!
True pocket railroading!
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Oh yeah, the sets are supposed to sell for 5000 Yen…that’s about $41!!!
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With respect to the title of this post:
None that I am aware of.
-Ed
Z works well enough for me. I’ve been modeling in Z since just about the time it was introduced by Marklin. Nowadays, most of what I buy comes from Micro-Trains, although the number of manufacturers and after-market suppliers in Z has grown significantly in recent years. I’m not at all interested in anything smaller.
I wonder what the scale is. A gauge of 3 millimeters would be 1/355.6 for Japanese prototypes, which use a 3.5-foot gauge. Perhaps 1/360.
The site mentions aircraft accessories in 1/455 scale, approximately correct if the track represents US standard gauge.
I noticed that. It seems strange that they would pretend in modeling that their usual narrow gauge is standard, when they use it for everything but the shinkansen. Yet, when I lived in Japan as a kid, I did have a three-rail O-gauge, O-scale model of a Japanese train, which I never questioned at the time. So maybe that’s a Japanese convention.
There is a fairly popluar (miniatures) gaming scale of 1/384. . . .
I was talking to somebody yesterday that said it was supposed to be 1:450.
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It looks like the train runs in a slot with the motor underneath. The two bridges connect the inner and outer sections together. It is not the smallest slot train layout, however.
This one is approximately 1/12,000 scale:
http://whiteriverandnorthern.net/clinic_08.htm
Daniel Lang
That is great! reminds me of the Tiny Trains they are 1:900 and run on a similar design.
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I think Z is terrific; however, it tends to be pricier than N, which isn’t that much bigger relatively speaking. If I were to design something small, N would be my choice. OTOH, if you had a fairly large room and wanted to recreate a lot of railroad, then you could use Z and have at least a couple dozen miles of 1:1 track represented.