World’s Smallest Working Model Train Layout?
jdk1928 questioned:
This is an N scale model of an HO scale train layout–a model of a model! Although it measures only 1/2-inch wide, the train runs and the station lights up. It’s shown here with a dime. For details on how this was made, go to: whiteriverandnorthern.net Don’t believe it’s real? See the video: www.youtube.com I also built one that’s even smaller: www.youtube.com
Very cute. But it’s not a model train.
It’s a plastic shape of a model train being went around in a circle by outside forces.
Still very cute though.
looks lie t scale
this is so cool, i always had HO scale layouts………..now i have to do this, thanks for the info on building one.
It looks gorgeous with the lights
class….fantastic work dude
It will be installed behind a leisure activity shop window.
oh, didnt see your other video. didnt meen to sound like a moron but i mean they do make huge dimes. thats REALLY small too. i never saw something like that. hows ot go in your zscale layout?
Just incredible!!! Nearly impossible to believe!!! Thank you for letting us know about it!
Yeah, cost me a whole ten cents!
nice huge dime
thats T scale
Unfortunately, I couldn’t build an entire layout in that scale.
I could condense the layout I’m plotting onto a sheet of paper. 
Here, picture this. Pretend you are an N scale person living on an N scale layout. Now using some N scale tools and HO scale modeling supplies, you build an HO scale model layout. Now, what have you built? It’s an HO scale layout, built in N scale. It’s an N scale model. Of an HO scale layout. Do you get it yet?
it still isn’t N scale
Are you paying attention? It’s a model of a model. An N scale model of an HO layout. It WILL be smaller than N. Smaller than Z. In fact, it will be a scale of 13,920:1.
what the hell…N is not that small Z isn’t even that small
holy shit that thing is awesome! i didnt notice how small it was until the video pointed out the dime sitting next to it! pure awesome!!
Did you get your pet fairies to build it for you? Awesome.
This is real its driven by a belt. No track involed. But still very impressive all the same
Looks even better in action than the pictures you have.
Your T guage stuff is fantastic as well. Meanwhile, my set sits in its box
Well, I know quite a few dumbasses, then. This thing has been on show for a model layout tour, so many people have seen it for real. Anyway, why do you automatically dismiss it as not real? I suppose the moon landing was a hoax to you.
Anyone who believes its real is a dumbass….
Well, since I built the thing, I reckon I ought to know what scale I’m modeling. Of course, you can reverse a model of a model: This could be an HO model of an N scale layout. But since I built it to fit inside an N scale leisure activity shop window, it more or less has to be an N scale model of an HO scale layout. That’s assuming you’re following along with the concept of a model of a model in the first place… I’m not entirely convinced that you are, necessarily.
Are you sure this is N scale and not a smaller scale like Z scale?
>CONTINENTAL United States in the size of a bedroom
Not quite. this is 1:13920 scale. The US is 3000 miles across, approximately. At that scale, the continental US would be about 1/5 of a mile.
New York City, now, that’s about 25×40 miles, that would fit in a largish room, say 9.5×15 feet.