{"id":1338,"date":"2008-06-30T20:54:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T01:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2008-06-30T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T01:54:39","slug":"z-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Z Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#6 Code 40<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608al.jpg\" title=\"Z Scale #6 Code 40 Fast Tracks Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608a.jpg\" title=\"300608a.jpg\" alt=\"z scale fast tracks\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another turnout from our NMRA Train Show display.  With a set of HO scale wheels for comparison, this Z scale code 40 turnout is very tiny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608bl.jpg\" title=\"Z Scale #6 Code 40 Fast Tracks Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608b.jpg\" title=\"300608a.jpg\" alt=\"z scale fast tracks\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tip of an X-Acto blade sitting on the guard rail of the Z scale turnout.  The PC board and wood ties are a mere .040&#8243; (1 mm) wide and are the smallest we produce.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608cl.jpg\" title=\"Z Scale #6 Code 40 Fast Tracks Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608c.jpg\" title=\"300608a.jpg\" alt=\"z scale fast tracks\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pieces of ballast on the side of the rail just past the wing rail look like boulders in this shot, but they are actually no larger than a speck of sand.  The frog is dwarfed by the HO scale wheelset shown here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608dl.jpg\" title=\"Z Scale #6 Code 40 Fast Tracks Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608d.jpg\" title=\"300608a.jpg\" alt=\"z scale fast tracks\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would love to build a Z scale layout one day!  Maybe at this years Train Show I will pick up some Z scale locomotives and tinker a bit.  There really is some exquisite stuff available in Z scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608el.jpg\" title=\"Z Scale #6 Code 40 Fast Tracks Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608e.jpg\" title=\"300608a.jpg\" alt=\"z scale fast tracks\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lack of a switch stand on this piece is a glaring omission!  Will have to see if I can find some in California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608fl.jpg\" title=\"Z Scale #6 Code 40 Fast Tracks Turnout\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/300608f.jpg\" title=\"300608a.jpg\" alt=\"z scale fast tracks\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, this isn&#8217;t the smallest piece of trackwork on the display!? There is one smaller.<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#6 Code 40 Another turnout from our NMRA Train Show display. With a set of HO scale wheels for comparison, this Z scale code 40 turnout is very tiny. The tip of an X-Acto blade sitting on the guard rail of the Z scale turnout. The PC board and wood ties are a mere .040&#8243; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nmra-train-show-anaheim","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}