[UFO Chicago] Model railroad scales

[Larry Garfield]

Phisophical/religious question du jour:  How many nanotrain sets can run
on the head of a pin?

Discuss.

Jesse Becker wrote:
> 
> 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.

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