One of the Smallest T Gauge Model Railway Layouts with Self-Propelled Model Trains by Martin Kaselis

[@kanukistani2984]

Sounds like a 1980's PAC man game. Its impressive that so much detail can be fit into a scene as small as this one! That said, its hard for me to truly appreciate a train set that has no rails and needs a microscope to watch. Just a personal preference though. For what it is its pretty cool.

[@maximumengineering5419]

Would love to see the staging yard and related movement that gets the next train queued up. A peek behind the curtain, if you will…

[@modelrailmusings5981]

Right at the end of the video...

[@maximumengineering5419]

I guess I gave up too soon. Thanks. I did watch the end. A few times…

[@valentinsn-ostalgiemodellbahn]

Just amazing, how this masterpieece works! The layout is incredibly detailled for such a small scale!

[@shazam6274]

A nice "Hand of God" shot at the end would really put the size in perspective !

[@Roy-gi5ul]

This is good to watch with the sound OFF! Plus, I like my trains to DO something rather than just parade around. If I could achieve this standard of running in N I'd be delighted!

[@plamoanddiorama8528]

Interesting new development of techniques! This hobby keeps amazing me with new stuff since I got back into it a year ago.

[@ronniebrown9379]

The technology isn't new. They've been using magnetic propulsion for years on monorails and high-speed trains.

[@Demun1649]

@@ronniebrown9379 Yes, but that is in 1:1 scale, not 1/450.

[@VauxhallRailfan]

Crikey that’s small Also for the people below, is that all the information you get from this video?? Not the fact this is so tiny and still looks awesome??

[@peterfair8544]

A True Creator - Scale Time & Colour Science + Art of sitting still 💗

[@zygmundzygmundowski]

Great stuff!

[@PierreMAILLET-gs6xm]

C'est beau un train. Tchou! tchou! le p'tit train !

[@BayernMoba]

Sensationell 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍♥️

[@IanHenderson-g9i]

Super layout and amazing what can be achieved in such a small space. Some overall shots of the layout to show how small it is relative to the real world around it would've been good and as a modeller I always like to see staging yards and under layout shots.

[@modelrailmusings5981]

There is a short sequence at the very end that covers two out of those three, and one of my own vids is a short how-it-was-made montage that covers the third at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqnYhZx5h9uJiaM

[@SB5SimulationsFerroviairesEEP]

Very Good! Stéph.

[@ГретыйТумблерг]

Милые крошки!!!

[@Demun1649]

Translated as "Dear little ones!!!" 👍👍👍👌👌👌

[@paulusthegrey]

Ingenious!

[@Demun1649]

To be truthful, the buzzing and various scales of noises, is much more preferable to the dubbed MUZAK. It is THERE, the MUZAK isn't. You don't dub over the top of the DCC noises of horns, diesel start-ups, that disturb the ambience of so many model railway exhibitions. Martin is a pioneer, and is developing ideas, and solutions, that other scales will, eventually, wake up to.

[@SouthDown]

I'll need to look up the technology to understand how this works, but the results is remarkable.

[@Romin.777]

Nice tech for a sort of car system in H0. :) Littlebit of weird sounding space age cars though..

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Scenic possibilities are wonderful! Whole railroads/ railways could be modeled with entire cities. I would be bored with the limited possibilities for switching/shunting and being unable to have more than one train at a ttime on display.

[@modelrailmusings5981]

This one was designed as a very simple watch-the-trains-go-by layout. I take a pair of layouts at a time to shows, so one of them has to be simple enough to look after itself. The layout before this one has 3 sidings, with the automation having trains pick up and drop off cars. The next one to be finished is a steam era terminus, where every train has to shunt and be turned, again automatically.

[@thetessellater9163]

What is that giant silver disc up on the hill above the station?

[@Demun1649]

It's the Bank of Australia!!

[@johnnyeveritt5695]

Agreed : Me too. Maybe I can get clarification from someone but really ... What is the POINT ? And there we thought that Z-Scale was bordering on the Lunatic-Fringe ! 😳🙄

[@Demun1649]

But us T'ers are the nice end of the Utterly Crazy Gang.

[@modelrailmusings5981]

Popular opinion has it that all model railway people are crazy. But seriously, this is an exhibition layout designed to show a series of trains running through wide open countryside, as a deliberate contrast to most large scale layouts that have a much higher track-to-scenery ratio. Every country's modellers have their own common style of exhibition layout (US=modular, UK=terminus-to-fiddle-yard, etc), and this intentionally breaks that mold. Visitors to those shows pay to see a good variety of layouts, so having something really different is a big plus. Also, I exhibit my layouts in pairs, so one really has to be simple enough to look after itself while I keep an eye on the more complex one (i.e. the one doing the automated switching/shunting). I build about one layout a year, and this one fills another role as a testbed for the complex backscene and large number of structures on the next one.

[@AtomicVisionary]

It's a really neat scale, but it's too small for me to work with. So I'll stick with N scale and N gauge.

[@douglasreiche4649]

Okay. So I watched this video. Everything is going in a straight line. What happens when you come to a corner or you want to turn around?

[@pilentum]

I guess, that's impossible.

[@danhilts3069]

Why no train on the track under the viaduct?

[@modelrailmusings5981]

The viaduct crosses a small river and a water-supply aqueduct, not another railway.

[@contralt2374]

Kaselis - lietuvių emigrantų palikuonis, nes pavardė lietuviška . Lithuania 🇱🇹🤝🇦🇺

[@이진우-v1h]

우리나라 옛날 수인협궤열차 디젤동차다

[@PierreMAILLET-gs6xm]

FFF c'est aussi un groupe français.

[@lescobrandon3047]

No more T scale for me. I came back to my apartment and found that my loco and cars were gone. I called police about the burglary. Then one nasty cop talked to the cleaning lady and found my train in the vacuum cleaner bag. Kidding.

[@patriksiegfried5050]

A cette échelle, je préfère quand même avec des vrais rails... c'est un peu trop clair ces rails, ça manque de relief

[@squeaksvids5886]

I’ve a T gauge HST that actually uses conventional electrified rails.

[@이진우-v1h]

비둘기호

[@LakeLocos]

Nice layout, shame about the AI voice!

[@peterkordziel7047]

This is not a model railway. It does not use rails, and as that is diagnostic in determining the gauge, it must be classified as something else. This system could be employed in something ground-breaking, however,like operating pedestrians in ho scale,for instance. I'm sorry, but my autism is only satisfied by physical,actual track. With wheels. With flanges. There is a limit to how much digital technology I will allow in my life. Great scenery,thogh.😊

[@PeckhamHall]

T gauge is on rails, I thought. Is this 1/1000 and not 1/450?

[@modelrailmusings5981]

You are correct that conventional T Gauge is just like other scales that way, only smaller, and yes, with proper wheels running on proper rails. This one is a completely different approach that avoids the reliability, maintenance and running issues that are that system's weak point, but at the cost of having to give up those proper wheels and rails. The track doesn't actually care about the scale, as long as the size and weight of the models is within certain limits, and the 1:480 used on this layout is basically the sweet spot for trains. I have also used it down to 1:720 and up to narrow gauge 1:220.

[@PeckhamHall]

@@modelrailmusings5981 so it is T scale on nano gauge?

[@modelrailmusings5981]

@@PeckhamHall I suppose you could say so, but "nano" is not a recognised gauge or scale. Their 1:1000 figure was basically plucked out of a hat. Their models don't actually represent a real prototype, and by size they would probably be more like 1:700 or 1:800 anyway.

[@PeckhamHall]

@@modelrailmusings5981 cheers for replying, my friend. 😊 thanks

[@everettthepetractionguy4222]

I'll stick with HO scale. 😂

[@Demun1649]

You won't be able to run trains with 15 coaches, or freight with over 30 wagons.

[@modelrailmusings5981]

The scenic area on this one is equivalent to 33' x 8' in HO, and I was able to model the whole area with no compression - a luxury that is very hard to come by in the larger scales.

[@Demun1649]

@@modelrailmusings5981 Boom, Boom.

[@Romin.777]

​@@Demun1649No problem with Märklin from the 60's

[@Demun1649]

@@Romin.777 What scale, and did you do it? Or see it done at an exhibition on a large layout?

[@tompekarna]

this background 'music' is unnecessary

[@cornfield755]

A Coin for scale is, in my opinion, an overused and frankly unhelpful metric. You actually had a ruler in your thumbnail, which led me to believe I could watch this video in relative peace. This is clearly something I get over-exercised on, I must learn to relax. From what I could enjoy in the first 47 seconds, the model looks fantastic, however I will watch no more.

[@emdB67]

Yes, definitely should've used a Banana for scale. 😆

[@Demun1649]

@@emdB67 Or taken it outside to a real preserved railway, and laid it down between the rails?

[@Demun1649]

@@emdB67 You need to jump back in. We miss your modelling skills.

[@THEFORBIDDENMAN-lk7of]

🚂🚃 IT`S NOT A MODEL RAILROAD ITS A WORK OF ART, THANKS FOR LETTING US SEE THIS MARVEL 🚃🚃