[UFO Chicago] Model railroad scales

[Jesse Becker]

I keep waiting for someone in the nanotech field to make a
model train set that fits on the head of pin.

--Jesse

--- Nate Riffe <inkblot@movealong.org> wrote:
> At the meeting I had mentioned "TT" scale model
> railroading and said
> that the track gauge was 2mm.  This is incorrect.  There
> is a scale
> that uses 2mm gauge track and it does not have a
> [:letter:]+
> designation, but is simply called "2mm scale".  "TT"
> scale is 1:120
> scale, which turns out to be about 12mm gauge, and is
> between "HO"
> scale (1:87, or approximately 16mm gauge) and "N" scale
> (1:160, 8.5mm
> gauge).  Below "N" scale, there is also "Z" scale with
> 6.23mm gauge
> track at 1:220 scale.  2mm gauge track turns out to be a
> 1:685.8 scale
> model of real trains.
> 
> -Nate
> 
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