T Scale - Orbost

[martink]

If you think we N gaugers have a fiddly time of it...  I had the chance to take a good look at the partially completed T Scale model of Orbost at this weekend's Sandown exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.  You might want to check out the owner's blog...

    http://victorian-tgauge.blogspot.com.au/

...or just go straight to youtube (which only shows one portion)...


Orbost in T gauge - 1:500 scale model railway

[Pengi]

Thank you for posting this. I was looking at T when I decided to change from OO but was put off by the lack of trains. There is an HST now and and ICE planned for sometime. And Electra make vinyls to convert one of the Japanese trains into a Southern Electrostar so I still have lingering thoughts about it - maybe I could build Clapham Junction in my garage but doing a third rail would be a nightmare for ham fisted me!

Seeing this makes me realise just how fiddly it is and the work in this video and blog is first class

[dr deltic]

Its one thing dropping bits of n gauge and losing it let alone losing a whole train in the carpet!

[dr deltic]

sticking with N i think lol!

[fisherman]

imagine  losing  one  of  the   coupling   springs!!

[longbridge]

An awesome layout, being very familiar with Orbost area in Vic I was amazed to see what a fantastic job was done on the scenery, the trees and bracken is perfect.

Always reminds me of the trestle bridge that crosses the flood plains just outside Orbost, I can remember a steam pulled goods train stranded half way across when the Snowy flooded.

[Pengi]

That is an amazing bridge - what are the trestles made of?

[martink]

That is an amazing bridge - what are the trestles made of?

Are you asking about the model or the prototype? 

For the model, real timber.  One page on the blog describes them being made of Tee tree and Bass wood (linden).

For the prototype, this type of timber trestle was very common on the Victorian Railways and generally made from local bush timber, of various kinds.  Larger spans were often combinations of trestles and steel girders.  There are still a couple to be found on revenue-earning lines down here today, and quite a few more on preserved lines, rail trails or disused formations.  Unfortunately, they don't tend to last in the longer term - bushfires get them sooner or later.

There's still one left on the outskirts of the Melbourne suburban system - and it's even electrified!


Eltham Trestle Bridge 31/3/11

[Gnep]

This is a layout I've been following for a while - and one of the reasons I nearly went into T-Gauge rather than digging the N out of my parents' attic and returning to what I know - it really gets the "train through the scenery" feel that I love - perhaps one of the reasons I keep forgetting to plan for any stations on my layout!

Simply astounding level of modelling though.

With 3D printing coming along nicely, and being pretty cheap for such a small scale, plus DMUs/EMUs being really easy with vinyls, does make it quite attractive still though... maybe one day when I've actually made proper progress on my layout

[Michael Shillabeer]

Hello

My T gauge layout is 27 inches by 16 inches

http://www.t-gauge.net/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1059

Best regards
Michael