A TT Gauge layout and fantastic Pre-War collection

That's awesome.

Back when I was dabbing in TT, I was in contact with a fellow back East who sent me some pictures of his TT layout. If I can find those, I'll post them in the "HONZ" forum... 🙂

Mark in Oregon

Outstanding!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

Bob

Another image of Larry's TT gauge layout was just added, replacing a duplicate one.

@Strummer posted:

That's awesome.

Back when I was dabbing in TT, I was in contact with a fellow back East who sent me some pictures of his TT layout. If I can find those, I'll post them in the "HONZ" forum... 🙂

Mark in Oregon

I'll look for it Mark - thanks

Maybe it should be the HONZTT forum -LOL.

Nice collection ...in the late 40's - 50's ..the various magazines would rarely ..but once in a great while have a photo of a TT layout ..one is pictured in Hertz's "Collecting Toy Trains"book

I've been gathering bits to put a small TT layout together ..

Fun stuff to play with .

Here is a link to see a H P Products

Pacific running

https://youtu.be/wZBBlFws-gQ

Cheers Carey

Interesting stuff for sure.  I came across a lot of TT trains while stationed in Berlin years ago and wound up buying some.  Although I never created a layout, they remain in my collection as fond souvenirs of a unique and rewarding assignment.

Thanks for sharing John. You've got some great friends!

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Thanks for sharing John. You've got some great friends!

Bob

You're welcome, Bob, and, Yes, I do!

Just before Covid I formed a small group of 4 close train friends to get together for lunch the first Wednesday of every month (frequently a layout visit afterwards) and to attend train shows, etc. together. We called ourselves LITCA (Long Island Train Collecting Aficionados).

By word of mouth we have now grown to 16, lunch attendance averages 12.

@Pre-War Steve posted:

Interesting stuff for sure.  I came across a lot of TT trains while stationed in Berlin years ago and wound up buying some.  Although I never created a layout, they remain in my collection as fond souvenirs of a unique and rewarding assignment.

Thanks Steve. I understand that European TT is a slightly different gauge than U.S. TT

@Lionelski posted:

You're welcome, Bob, and, Yes, I do!

Just before Covid I formed a small group of 4 close train friends to get together for lunch the first Wednesday of every month (frequently a layout visit afterwards) and to attend train shows, etc. together. We called ourselves LITCA (Long Island Train Collecting Aficionados).

By word of mouth we have now grown to 16, lunch attendance averages 12.

I like to think of myself as an aficionado....

@Carey Williams posted:

Nice collection ...in the late 40's - 50's ..the various magazines would rarely ..but once in a great while have a photo of a TT layout ..one is pictured in Hertz's "Collecting Toy Trains"book

I've been gathering bits to put a small TT layout together ..

Fun stuff to play with .

Here is a link to see a H P Products

Pacific running

https://youtu.be/wZBBlFws-gQ

Cheers Carey

Thanks for the video Carey

Looking forward to updates on your TT layout project

Speaking of TT Gauge, my Lionel prewar switchers use the same TT Gauge e-unit seen here:

Tom

I found the pictures; they're not very good, but I will attempt to photograph and post them anyway...

Mark in Oregon