On the Ztrack page:

On the Z-Scale Articles page:

See other indices on the Model Railroad

and on the Railroad pages.

Currently (18 Apr 92) looks like two 3' (by 2½') modules to cover from north to south and from the waterfront to Kent Avenue, plus a Domino module, plus several 1½' long wharves as add-ons.  Resultant "footprint" will be 8' long by 4' deep overall.

05 Dec 93 - Can't find anything written up on number of turnouts on BEDT.  From xerocopied enlargement of USDI/GS Brooklyn Quadrangle map of 1967 (photorevised 1979 - didn't change trackage), as redrawn, there are 60 tracks and 59 turnouts {???}.  At $25 per manual turnout or $40 per solenoid-operated turnout {$25.50 and $45.50 in 1997!}, that could run from $1,475 to $2,360!  Not bloody likely!

02 Apr 98 Comment:  Sure doesn't look promising, unless some commercial firm underwrites it; Märklin evinced no interest in such a project (can't IMAGINE why not!).

See Z page 6 for BEDT #15 in Z.

  

Z-SCALE DIMENSIONS
Effective Date: 30 Jul 99
Original Date: 30 May 97

Z-Scale is 220:1.    1 mile = 24', exactly!

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Z-Scale	Z-Scale			Z-Scale	Z-Scale	Std.
Exact
Exact	Actual	Actual	Approx.	Approx.	Märklin
(metric)	(English)	(metric)	(English)	(English)	(metric)	Track
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6.5mm	0.2559055"	0.295455m		¼"	(n/a)	Gauge
0.1156mm	0.004545"		1"	0.005"
1		220				(absolute)
1.38545mm	0.054545"	0.3048m	1'	0.05"
13.8545mm	0.545455"	3.048m	10'	½"
25mm	0.984252"	5.50m	18.04452'	1"		¼-tangent
25.4mm	1"	5.588m	18.33333'
27.5mm	1.082677"	6.050m	19.84908'	1"
27.709mm	1.0909"	6.096m	20'
55mm	2.165354"	12.1m	39.69816'	2-1/8"		½-tangent
55.4182mm	2.181818"	12.192m	40'
108.6mm	4.275591"	23.892m	78.38583'		turnout makeup
110mm	4.330709"	24.2m	79.39633'	4-1/3"		1x-tangent
110.836mm	4.363636"	24.384m	80'
112.8mm	4.440945"	24.818m	81.41733'		turnout makeup
138.556	5.45"		100'
220mm	8.661417"	48.4m	158.7927'	8½"		2x-tangent
221.673mm	8.727273"	48.768m	160'
	1		220			(absolute)
323mm	12.71654"	71.060m	233.1365'		crossover radius
490mm	19.29134"	107.8	32.85744'	19¼"	turnout radius
660mm	25.98425"	145.2m	447.5853'	26"		6x-tangent
665.018mm	26.18182"	146.304m	480'
	3' (36")		½-mile
	6' (72")		¼-mile
	12'		½-mile
7315.2mm	24'	1.60934km	1 mile
---------	---------	---------	------
7260mm	23.81890'	1.5972km	5,240.16'	<1 mile		11 x 660mm
55mm	2.165354"	12.1m	39.69816'	<40'		55mm
[0.2mm	0.078740"	44mm		1.732284" difference (~1¾" actual, shy)]
7315mm	23.99934'	1.6093km	5,279.86'	1 mi. approximated by (11x660mm)+(1x55mm)
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Z-Scale	Z-Scale			Z-Scale	Z-Scale	Std.
Exact
Exact	Actual	Actual	Approx.	Approx.	Märklin
(metric)	(English)	(metric)	(English)	(English)	(metric)	Track
========	=========	========	=========	===========	===========	=======

The Scale Card

I have mine!  They arrived 02 Jan 2003 and these are the kinds of tools that make one wonder how he or she ever got along without them!  Naturally, my scanner refused to work, so here's a quick snapshot of them; the smaller (full) circle on the card is exactly 3/4" (19.05mm), for reference on your screen:

Image of 1:220 (Z-scale) Card and Rule from The Scale Card

[Technically, the "rule" (or "ruler") is not that at all; a rule rules straight lines (it is a "straightedge"), while a scale measures distance, but, as José himself pointed out, common usage rules (did I really say that?)!]

There is also a 12" ruler, which I am ordering, but I regret to announce that José notified readers of Ztrack Magazine with its Jul-Aug 2012 issue that he is closing his doors on 31 Dec 2012!  If you read this in time, place your orders soon!   (11 Sep 2012)

BIG TIME!

Hey, Don Hammond with the half-giant-suitcase (the one that makes up the monster suitcase set with Nat "Bud" Taverna's) and the end case that allows it to run without Bud's) were featured in full color in a 10 Jan 1999 cover story, "Right on Track" by Peter Goodman, Staff Writer, on page B9 of Long Island's NEWSDAY, one of the Metro area's most influential newspapers!  Unfortunately, Goodman has the scale as 1/222 but, hey, it was good plug for Z at the Great South Bay Model Railroad Club show in the Freeport (Long Island) Recreation Center, on 10 Jan 1999!

Well, I went to the show (it was mobbed!) and there was Don in all his glory with not TWO, but THREE suitcases!  He's gone and built a 4' extender case!  He and Bud were both to be at the "Grumman" show in Bethpage (Long Island) on 23 Jan 1999; couldn't wait to see this monster up and running!  Well, Bud couldn't make it and Don was there with "only" his case-and-a-half!

WOW! - There is now a Z-scale boxcab model!

Image of development model from Freudenreich Feinwerktechnik
with FR Z-scale hopper cars (see below)!

Image of first production model from Freudenreich Feinwerktechnik - note that the
symmetrical arrangement of the stacks has been corrected to the offset of the prototypes.

Much more on this model moved to my FR page at FR Boxcab Oil-Electric Locomotives.

See also my BOXCABS page, et. seq.

On 15 Mar 1999, I received my NYC and N&W hoppers from Freudenreich Feinwerktechnik, together with a kit and decals/transfers{?} for an L&N car; oh, my!  These are GEMS!  They even include coal* loads; more about them to follow.

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OVERTON COACHES, BOBBER, and CRANE in Z-SCALE!   (25 Feb and 19 Nov 2015)

Larry Hoff of PORTLAND RAIL CAR (the guy that made the Z buses noted in Ztrack) had released four Z scale brass Overton "coaches" {sic) - actually a baggage car, a combine, a "business" car, and a coach (he called all of them coaches) with Micro-Trains or Märklin couplers and Märklin trucks, and a brass bobber caboose {I wanted it!  I still want it!} and was also working on a Brownhoist 25-ton crane and work car!

I regret to advise that on 28 Jan 2015 I heard from Lerry Hoff's son-in-law that
Larry had passed away in 2001 from cancer.

DISCLAIMER - I didn't know Larry and thus this was NOT an endorsement, but if you'll look at just one of the several pix he sent me (below), you might have wanted to visit his site.

Larry Hoff's Z-Scale Bobber

I had to have been nuts or something, advertising a stranger's products,
but that bobber and crane are so exquisite that I put back the picture of the crane:

Larry Hoff's Z-Scale Crane

I did some digging in my old site and found that the January/February 1998 issue of Ztrack Magazine featured Larry Hoff's Portland Railcar releasing Z Overton coaches and the bobber caboose.   (19 Nov 2015)

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Speaking of Brass and such in Z!

Did you see Micro-Trains' incredible SP 2-6-0 Mogul on page 55 of the October, 1998 Model Railroader?  It was shown in brass with a Vandy oil tender as SP Class M-6a in two versions but was also available with a coal tender as SP Class M-4 (see M-T's

A sampling of some of the finer (and tinier) Z accessories can be found at Microscopic Z Accessories on Z Scale Continuation Page 2; Miller Engineering material formerly here has been moved there.

WISH LIST

Micro-Trains® photo used by permission.

Shown:  Item Number 16000, Southern Pacific Road Number 1798, Class M-6a,

large headlight w/sun hood, large boiler tube pilot, Vanderbilt oil tender.

Micro-Trains also has two other versions:

Item Number 16001, Southern Pacific Road Number 1785, Class M-6a,

large headlight w/o sun hood, small boiler tube pilot, Vanderbilt oil tender,

and

Item Number 16002, Southern Pacific Road Number 1681, Class M-4,

large headlight w/o sun hood, large boiler tube pilot, conventional oil tender.

Please visit the Micro-Trains site; more views and the other Moguls were pictured on their Moguls page (but hurry back, y'heah?).  That wa slong ago; they are collector items now!

At long last, a kind Z soul (the best kind) up in Canada (Jan 99) offered me his old Märklin 8962 Dürnau Station.  Thank you, Sir; this is pure obsession - I really could have used another structure but I designed the space to fit Dürnau, and Dürnau it had to be (and now is)!

V 32 001

We need no longer pray for (or plan on counterfeiting) a Z version of the Märklin HO #3420/3720 1924 Diesel-Compressed Air tank locomotive DRG Class V 32 4-6-4T Hudson-type, the Insider Model 1995 (see Page 33 of the 1995 New Items brochure) - Ztrack for May/June 2000, page 13, announced that the Märklin Insider Z Model for 2000 is just that, #88065; the entire coverage of this odd loco has now been moved to Z Page 6.

Hey; I picked up a 1975 Märklin catalog to fill in between my original of 1972 and the 1980 with which I worked when I bought my first mini-club equipment.  This one, a store copy originally from Ted's Hardware and Trains in Tampa, has most of the Z prices inked in by hand and they're a hoot (or heartbreak)!  Just for laughs (ha, ha, - or sniff, sniff), here are a few representative items:

Read it and weep!

At the same time, I picked up five more 8620 Schnabel cars to chop up for photos of the Schnabel loading sequence - BUT - they are all different from the original 8620 and from each other!  They are from the 8688, 8689, 8690, 8691, and 8892 Regional Sets and I can't very well destroy them; this overloaded this page and they appear on

For Z-scale construction articles (but NOT this one), see my Z Scale Articles Page.

Of course, if you really want a wish list, pix and info overloaded this page so it's all continued on Z Continuation Page 7.

For the story of the Berlinerwerke-Z (my layout), see the Berlinerwerke-Z Saga page, et. seq.

For tall tales of the BW and its equipment and such, visit the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha page.

For more and better illustrations of the tall tales and such, keep in touch; I have my digital camera (11 Jan 1999 - a belated Xmas present - an SLR, no less!), the requisite software loaded, and scads of server storage space.  Now, all I have to do is take more pictures.

See also the preceding page, succeeding page, and the Z-scale articles page.

For Ztrack Magazine, see its new separate page.

For 1:440 and even 1:900, see 1:440 Scale and 1:900 Scale!

Best regardZ,  S.B.,III