In the latest MRH magazine (April 2020) Jack Burgess has an article on using calipers. I am a great fan! As I do a lot of scratchbuilding, the calipers are my go too tool for measuring and marking out. Also in that article he talks about converting measurements to scale sizes. I have done a lot of measurement conversion also. Modelling in TT scale (1:120) is one of the reasons that I scratchbuild. As I work with metric and imperial rolling stock I have had to convert between the two units of measurements, and scale as well.

In this blog I want to talk about Russian narrow gauge locomotives and how I am modelling them in TTe (1:120 on 6.5mm track). TT is still popular in Europe, and there is a slow increase in North American rolling stock in TT also. But Russia is where it is all happening!

Two references for these locos are listed below. They are both in Russian, but Google Translate is your friend.

Its been a while since I posted about Building the layout room  (over a year!). I did mention in that blog that I would talk about the problems we encountered, so better late than never ;)

Problem 1: the Module was too long...

After a couple of years I have finally built into my spare room for the Lipakovo line, a Russian TTe narrow gauge logging line. Discussion about the track plan is HERE.

The first TOMA competition was the impetus for actually building a layout rather than just thinking about it, and the modules I have designed are very lightweight (the subject of another blog post to come...)

The main requirements for building into the room were: