Nominal size TY
In the nominal size TY , all model railway scales smaller than nominal size T (1: 480) are currently combined. This is also called nano model railroading . The nominal size is, as it were, the nominal sizes ZZ and T not standardized, but belongs in the portfolio of today's model railways.
TY is derived from tiny (English for tiny).
They all have one property in common: they no longer move through driven wheels, but rather through other technologies. Critics therefore no longer count these small tracks as model trains . However, they are also models of great role models or, as a fantasy product, still miniature trains.
Two different standards are currently known:
Tiny-Trains 1: 900
The company Tiny-Trains from Lead in South Dakota , USA , sells small prefabricated systems on a scale of 1: 900. The tiny trains are driven by a continuous belt under the system, i.e. purely mechanically. Ready-made systems are available in dimensions of around 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters to 35 centimeters by 60 centimeters. However, these systems are relatively expensive, in the three to four-digit dollar range.
Tiny Trains 1: 1000
The American company IDL Motors developed a small model railway called "Nano-Trains" based on a linear motor and sells this product both in the form of various prefabricated systems and as a kit for your own design. The tiny vehicles have magnetic floor plates and are pulled over the coil line, which is reminiscent of a printed circuit board. Currently this is an oval of around 16 centimeters by 11 centimeters. The linear motor is controlled by a small component on which you can also set two operating modes: simple speed or random speed. In addition, a steam locomotive sound can be switched on, but it does not run synchronously with the vehicle movement. The Dresden folk artisan Volker Arnold sells suitable small building kits on a scale of 1: 1000. Interesting for model railroaders is the possibility of using such a small system both in nominal sizes I and II as a garden railroad and in nominal sizes Z, ZZ and T as a "small" car system by equipping model vehicles on the ground with appropriate magnets. In nominal sizes N and Z, such a nano-train would be conceivable as an industrial or park railway.
Comparison of tracks ZZ, T and TY
Nano Train from IDL compared to a lighter
Locomotive with house by VA-Holzkunst compared to a pin needle
