Australian TT 120 Model Trains

This Web site was established to share some of the experiences of two brothers who are now in their retirement years and have played around with this  scale  25-30 years ago We will call them AC  & DC  to maintain their wish for a nom de plume.

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AC & DC grew up in Sydney in the 1950s and 1960s their initial Model Trains were Marklin Germany prototype and during their teen years in collusion with their father developed a number of modest layouts. They both still have a significant collection of these models. Travelling into the City by train made them very aware of the NSWGR prototype and holidays on Queensland exposed them to the narrow gauge scene. In 1968 the family moved to Queensland and interest in this system as a modelling venture soon took hold of AC while DC maintained his interest in NSWGR.

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DC started HO Scale NSWGR modelling in 1973.  While AC later developed an interest in QR but started to scratch build on N gauge underframes.     

He discovered that using a scale of 2.6mm to the foot he could use available cheap N gauge locomotives and bogies which were close enough to look right Hence their adage "if it looks right it is right." He completed 2 locomotives ( 1500 Class and a DH diesel) a rake of goods wagons and a rake of suburban passenger carriages. These were displayed at an early Queensland Model Railway Show and then ran for some time on a small QR layout complete with station footbridge and old Queenslander house.   The rolling stock is still in captivity in display cases. He then returned to Marklin HO and other collections.

 

DC in the meantime had moved to Tasmania and came in to contact with a Dr Huxtable who was an avid 3mm scale modeller who which kindled his interest in TT. As it was very much a scratch builders scale he did not have the time to commit so the interest lay latent for many years while his NSWGR HO Collection grew and was exhibited on two layouts at a number of model railway exhibitions.

 

In the meantime AC had visited his brother in Tasmania and loved the Tasmania prototype subsequently building the "Tasman Limited" and a freight train with a typical Tasmanian station and signal box. These arrived as a surprise present for D C.  These models also went to a number of exhibitions in Tasmania before entering mothballed status. 

 

Although for some the enforced lockdown of COVID 19 may have been difficult for the two brothers it gave them time to have another look at some of the projects that had been on the back burner. DC got the Tasmanian models out of their mothballed state and found a number of problems with the roofs of the articulated Tasman Limited. Over time the plastic card had assumed a banana shape and so new roofs had to be made. These were duly fitted and the complete set once again put on the track.

 

AC  looked at his Queensland models and found that they were still in operational order.

He then added a new train based on the Queensland 'Sundlander 

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Due to other commitments that's about as far as we have so far progressed 

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Darcy      Site coordinator 

      

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