Park railway in miniature

[Densha]

I stumbled upon these blog posts about using 9mm N gauge track and a Tomytec chassis for building a park/garden/miniature railway:

 

http://cedarben.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2013-07-08

http://cedarben.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2013-06-02

 

Should be fun to build a small roundy roundy diorama for this. You can let the coaches be pulled by any N gauge loco!

 

Here's something similar in 1:87 scale, using T gauge I believe: https://www.flickr.com/photos/55976115@N00/10768677413/

[velotrain]

T gauge works out to about 18" gauge in N scale, and N gauge works out to about 18" in O scale, (assuming SG track in each case) so you could create an estate railway, although each is a bit wide for a park railway, which is usually about 1' gauge.  

 

So, using T gauge with HO scale is just about right on (~11" gauge).

Edited July 25, 2015 by velotrain

[Densha]

A similar trick using different scales: https://picasaweb.google.com/105934735681481027067/TischanlageSpurT

[cteno4]

Unfortunately curt couldn't get his 1/7500'scale model of the jrm layout functional...

 

Jeff

 

http://japanrailmodelers.org/photos/curtsdetails/pages/page_8.html

[velotrain]

I once saw a photo of a British exhibition layout, similar to the one Densha links to.

 

It was 1:6 scale, using action figures as modelers, of a modular layout at an exhibition that used Nn3 trains representing large scale.  It was very well done, complete with controllers, wiring, etc.

[Dorian Davis]

My favourite non-Japanese "Garden Railway" has to be "Mr Cholmondley Warner's Garden Railway", a photo of which can be found here (2nd photo down).

 

Dorian

Edited August 4, 2015 by Dorian Davis

[velotrain]

There's more info here:  http://www.carendt.com/small-layout-scrapbook/page-48a-april-2006/

 

I'm a bit confused though, as I only see the figure-8 line and not the other.