Model railroading in Canada: Rail transport modeling at its best! All aboard in TT scale!
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Once again we learn that rail transport modeling is an international matter, especially when German model railroaders build a Canadian model railroad layout. Furthermore, the special feature of this model railroad layout is the rare scale, namely TT scale. The German railway enthusiasts Helmut Müller (father) and Michael Gruner (son) have created a beautiful model railroad layout of Canada. Their layout in TT scale focuses on the transcontinental railway traffic between Canada and the USA.
The model railroad layout depicts the landscape around the “Connaught Tunnel” of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The stone galleries and wooden bridges, better known as trestle bridges, which are common for rail transport in the Rocky Mountains, were reproduced in great detail. For landscaping small stones and many natural materials from Woodland Scenics were used. The TT layout includes a saw mill, a large steel bridge, a port with ships and an industrial area. There are also locomotives, freight trains and passenger trains, which are wonderfully aged and weathered.
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This has to be one of the most detailed model railroads I've ever seen. I notice the sides of the rails are painted brown to simulate rust. Only the railhead is shiny. just like a real railroad. Amazing attention to detail.
Alle Daumen hoch für diese tolle TT Anlage !!!! Als TT Bahner weiß man was es alles nicht gibt für so ein spezielles Thema und wieviel Eigenleistung in dieser wirklich tollen Highend Anlage steckt !
Absolut richtig!
A magnificent blend of Canadian & American "north country" railroading ... The speed is perfect ... and All in TT❗ 👏
What a great way to travel.
We never tire. Thank you.
From my understanding, TT is 1/120 scale.
That's a little bit bigger than N scale. I have been model railroading for about 40 years and I have never seen American style models in TT scale until now. I would have gotten into TT scale if I had known they were available.
Rokal of West Germany made some US outline equipment in the late 50s to 60s. Santa Fe F7 models were the ones I remember.
TT was pretty much invented in the US about 1946 by Hal Joyce (I think) of HP products.
All expensive when new and did not catch on well enough to be widely available now.
Likley some HP TT and Rokal TT on the tube.
Never saw that scale in Canada . Here ho is king and n is queen. Fabulous job by the way !
Yes, the TT scale is a rarity.
This was filmed through an electron microscope. This complete layout actually fits inside the period at the end of this sentence.
Crazy Germans.
This is fantastic, I’m in the UK but model North American stuff mainly and would love to see much done in TT, it’s the perfect scale for me.
Do you have TT scale in UK ? In Canada and U.S. it's mainly HO and N scale. I'm into N. I never saw TT scale in Canada. It seems to be a nice scale.
Thanks again for taking the time to put this together and sharing
Thanks for watching!
Phenomenal railroad layout and scenery. The weathering is outstanding and is what adds to the the realism. Great rail recipe.
The weathering makes a huge difference!
waiiit a minute, I‘ve never seen north american trains in TT scale! fantastic! absolutely love TT.
Comme toujours de très beau réseaux que vous nous faites partager merci!
Jean-Claude ❤👍👍👍
Excellent scenery and a great job of weathering the rails.
REALLY?? The red rail color looks nothing like rust. Red paint just doesn't cut it.
It sure would be nice to get a overhead view of the entire layout..
Un parque ferroviario muy completo, junto con un hermoso escenario. Los trenes se mueven de forma muy realista, aun siendo de escala TT. Muchas gracias!
Wow! A modern, Canadian layout in TT scale?! Are you the only one?! This is incredible. When I was a kid my dad had a box of TT scale trains and when he had asked around if he could make something of it, people said it was impossible because TT was dead. You proved them wrong!! Fantastic work
Love the details in the modeling and you can't beat seeing my home town of Red Deer on the "Take an Alberta Break" cylindrical grain hopper :-)
Gorgeous! Wunderbar! Definitely captures Canada! And TT is such a rare scale, amazing how much rolling stock and all can be had - or is many of it scratch built? Keep up the great work! :)
The most stuff is really scratch built.
Amazing work! I always thought TT was a bit bigger than HO, but I see now it's between N and HO. Incredible how you kept so much to scale!
Fabulous
Those articulated hoppers are awesome! I have pics of both.
Very Nicely Datailed
Layout.
A beautiful layout. Really nice work on the scenery as it looks very realistic.
Excellent camera work capturing the fine details of this masterpiece. Thanks.
Beautiful shots, but ... I always want to see the overall layout before we start seeing 'Kodak Moments', that is, stills with a train running through.
It sure would be nice to get a overhead view of the entire layout
Great layout but get some shots from further out so we can see the true scale of the layout. Ty.
great layout
An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.
always love the details in these layouts. These guys really did there home work. recognize some of the names on the buildings like pope and Talbot.
Yep they did their homework alright. Like huge rocks that came from where? Scenery that doesn't match the environment. Boats sitting ON the water instead of IN it. Yep, they did their homework alright.
if you ever been to Canada, you would know that random huge boulders are relatively common in certain parts of the country, they were left there when the glaciers of the last ice age retreated. I have one right in front of my house its huge when this place was built they didn't even try to move it. .P.S. it sure is easy to criticise other peoples work i suppose you can do better.
Great videography but can’t you zoom out so can see more than just a little bit of the layout?
Not really into train sets and don’t know how this landed in my recommendation but the amount of detail was awesome
Nice layout, great scenery and detailing! Would like to see the trackplan for general idea of what's what.
Unfortunately, I have not found a track plan in any German model railway magazine.
Merry Christmas 2019 and Happy New Year 2020!Canadian!You railway similar to masterpiece and make view cam on each locomotive!You find your railway kingdom!
Merry Christmas
Thank you!
Lovely layout! Love all the great details and structures. I wonder where the signals are purely manual though - @4:04 the signal showed green where there was a train on the block it was protecting.
The signalman at 6:08 is fixing all that!
Exactly, the signal man is the hero :-)
And at 10:00, our hero Signalman. ♡ T.E.N.
Very cool 😎 layout, wasn’t aware these models are also available in scale TT.
Considering your vids always show layouts to the in-depth of detail, I would humbly appreciate and recommend you also add some shots of the different overviews, or even better a short glimpse of the track plan.
Love your videos. Think your shots are outstanding amongst other channels. You truly attempt to show these layouts in their beauty and with a feel for for the shown perspective. Like foreground and background fully encapsulated inside the frames. From that ‘viewpoint’ I can understand you would prefer to not show the overviews. I do understand they can be visually disturbing.
Nevertheless, for the comprehension of the viewer, it might be nice to just lift up the veil a tiny bit.
Overall, very happy with your coverage. Really enjoy your installments, on a regular basis.
There are two aspects: On the one hand, I really don't want to destroy the illusion of a beautiful miniature world by filming ugly background walls or wooden edges. I would do that if I were filming an overall shot of the layout. On the other hand, I usually film the layouts at public exhibitions. Because of personal rights and data protection in Europe, I cannot simply film people standing in the background of the layout and then publish their faces worldwide on the Internet. I would have to get written permission from all the people if I filmed them.
Beautiful work
superb video and the attention to detail = amazing.
Hello from Canada. Nice video. What’s missing is the overall layout. I don’t know whether the builders here ever visited Canada, especially the mountain division of the Canadian Pacific railway. The Connaught Tunnel is more than a century old and was originally double-tracked, until CP began building larger freight cars. The tunnel is located in the Selkirk Ranges of the Columbia Mountains (no, not the Rocky Mountains, which are located east of the Columbia Mountains). The Selkirk ranges are rugged, snow covered during the fall, winter and spring seasons, and steep, reaching up to 3500 metres in elevation. The vegetation is predominantly dark spruce trees. Hardly any deciduous trees. The valley where the rail line passes is narrow, and there are snow sheds. Not sure what city the port is situated. Vancouver? Port Moody? Although this model railroad does not accurately depict the Conaught tunnel area, it’s still very nicely done.
Like the video very much.Take care
TT scale, where did you buy all he American equipment? Looks fantastic.
It's canadian . North american is more appropriate.
Mostly scratchbuilt by skilled modellers.
1:51 oops.... Derail. LOL
Worth noting: kadee coupling used in TT scale!👍
Yes, Kadee 714 is very popular in American TT
2:43 : slight issue with the block system 🙄🤔
I guess, this signal was faulty or it was operated manually.
Signalman to the rescue at 10:00. ♡ T.E.N.
At 1:52 there is a derailment :-(
Great. Where do you get American equipment in TT? I’m having a hard enough time just getting track.
wow! model train depo!
é maravilhoso!
Fantastic layout!! However, that large spray painted graffiti wasn't around when the Caboose's ran.
Very creative layout ,Great detail to the models being given a weather detail ,How long did it take to build as this is Fabulous,Hello from Scotland 🏴❤️🇨🇦
Supernice video ! Fav. At 8.45 the loadingdock. Is that scratchbuilt ? Happy new year to you all !
the only thing I didn't like was that New York Central passenger train with dome cars which I believe the New York Central didn't have due to the fact that they couldn't have domes going through the tunnels of New York City or overhead wire electric system
not sure why there is a New York Central passenger train with vista domes? never knew that they had them. I was expecting the "Canadian".
1:52 Seeing the wheel off the track is messing with me.
Dang man your right that is crazy
Awesome layout but very noises at background
Yes, the audience that is usually present at an exhibition. Sorry.
TT is a great scale. Too bad it never took off in America. I hear it's big in Europe and Russia.
This scale was especially popular in Eastern Europe. Even today there are still many TT railways.
Marvellous. Who are the makers of the locos and stock?
Helmut Müller (father) and Michael Gruner (son) have converted models in HO scale to TT scale by hand.
@@pilentum They are true modellers to have the skill to make the conversions. Congratulations Helmut and Michael.
isnt TT scale sort of like S scale being between O and HO but in this its between HO and N
no, TT is smaller than Z
my bad, im thinking of T gauge, completely different lol
No TT (1/120) is bigger than N (1/160) and Z (1/220).
@@neooooo6127 TT is 1/120. Z is way smaller than TT scale. You might be thinking of T scale. That's smaller than Z scale.
@@vincentlefebvre9255 Right. T scale is 1/450 to 1/480 depending on manufacturer.
1:53 one wheel has run off the rail,hope it went well...
Fantastic, however couldn't watch all thru because of awful background noise, totally spoiled it for me.
Get to know your volume control. It is actually easy to operate. Contact me if you are confused.
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Where is the Graffiti on the cars .
Right at the beginning, for example 0:38 min or 0:43 min
Filmik dużo traci bez podkładu muzycznego/The movie loses a lot without music. 😭
Yes, you're right. But I didn't have time to dub the whole movie.
weher do i get this trains for TT Scale
Which country
If you want to see fine North American modelling then go to Germany, lol. Beautiful work
Nice scenes. Modelling in TT scale seems like an odd choice to me though. N and HO Scale have so many accurate Canadian models, why go to TT?
I agree. Wouldn't TT mean that everything would have to be scratchbuilt
TT is one of the most (if not THE most) popular scales in Germany, especially in the East Germany.
@@ajlndga But for Modelling Candian ProType it is not the best choice. Unless he likes a challenge? Modeling CP and CN in N or HO makes it EASY and more imporattanty Accurate
@@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp Well, you are probably right if you only consider trains themselves... If, however, you look at the entire project (tracks, scenery etc). Given TT scale wide popularity in Germany, it makes perfect sense. HO too big, N too small, TT fits exactly in the middle (personal opinion).
@@ryanpaton2086 Indeed, needing to scratch build everything is a great reason to choose TT scale. In HO and N, it's tempting to just go buy something.
What’s your intro song called
Ça manque de plans larges !
Veuillez noter le bruit des spectateurs en arrière-plan. Une vidéo panoramique aurait beaucoup trop de personnes dans l'image. Les spectateurs se tenaient partout sur ce réseau ferroviaire.
Train DERAILED. 1:52
fitnesspoint2006 - He's on the ground-1:52-on the ground
I’m more of a Union Pacific guy
Only if the tt guys had dcc
??????????? Many (Most?) TT engines DO use DCC. Look at the offerings from Tillig, Kuehn, or MTB
@@richardbrennan8910 really? Got a link to a tt scale locomotive woth dcc? Never knew they made a chip that small
@@hamiltonsullivan6563 who sells trains like that but are us style trains?
@@cantstanddogs4776 don't really know, you can find some own equipment for. The 50s and 60s on ebey
This would be a lot more pleasant to watch if you didn't spend so much time in each spot. Far too long to wait between scenes. The noise too was unbearable. Cut the background noise out of it, but I couldn't get past 4 minutes. Just terrible!
How about a small donation for your suggestions?
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@@pilentum Please explain which of his suggestions would cost actual money to implement.
i hate the pictuers of the phtoto