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Z scale is one of the smallest commercially available model railway scales (1:220), with a track gauge of 6.5 mm / 0.256 in. Introduced by Märklin in 1972, Z scale trains operate on 0–10 volts DC and offer the same operating characteristics as all other two-rail, direct-current, analog model railways.
This gauge is represented by the EM Society (in full, Eighteen Millimetre Society). 00 track (16.5 mm) is the wrong gauge for 1:76 scale, but use of an 18.2 mm (0.717 in) gauge track is accepted as the most popular compromise towards scale dimensions without having to make significant modifications to ready-to-run models. Has a track gauge ...
This scale is also popular in North America to depict 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge prototypes (using dedicated 14.28 mm (0.562 in) gauge track and known as "Sn3"), and elsewhere to depict the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow-gauge railways (using H0 scale 16.5 mm / 0.65 in gauge track and known as "Sn3 1 ⁄ 2") of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Originally like most other train manufacturers, Bachmann's train sets used conventional snap-track (originally in brass, then switching to steel in the early 1980s.) In 1994, Bachmann introduced the then-revolutionary E-Z track, that featured HO track built onto a moulded plastic roadbed that could be assembled like typical HO track.
Märklin followed with O gauge (by some accounts as early as 1895 or as late as 1901), HO scale in 1935, and the diminutive Z scale, 1:220, in 1972 — smallest in the world for decades — under the name Mini-Club (the scale of Z was assigned after the product line was introduced).
Other definitions include the surface of the ballast on which the track is laid, [1] the area left after a track has been dismantled and the ballast removed [1] or the track formation beneath the ballast and above the natural ground. [2] The trackbed can significantly influence the performance of the track, especially ride quality of passenger ...
The track is often multi-gauged, to accommodate 5 in (127 mm), 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm), and sometimes 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (64 mm) gauge locomotives. The smaller gauges of miniature railway track can also be portable and is generally 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (89 mm)/ 5 in (127 mm) gauge on raised track or as 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm)/ 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (260 mm) on ...
ZZ scale (1:300) is a model railroad scale with a standard gauge of 4.8 mm (0.189 in). Models for the scale are produced exclusively by Bandai, and depict Japanese prototypes such as Shinkansen trains. To date, no other traditional scale railway support exists for the scale.