Event Details
Location: Kamin Science Center, Pittsburgh PA (formally "Carnegie Science Center")
Date: Jan 17 & 18, 2026
Time: 10am - 4pm both days
Admission: With General Admission to the Science Center
Sponsor: Kamin Science Center
Some stats related to this show:
- The Science center had over 6,000 people come threw the doors on Saturday and Sunday.
- 20 people brought a total of 79 modules in the layout!
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- 15 Corners & Junctions
- 90 SME (Single Module Equivalents)
- 5 independent loops (three DCC and two DC)
- 337.71 feet of track (10.2 "scale miles") based on T-TRAK planning software
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With our 4 loops, we dedicated one loop to be our "Junior Engineer Loop". This was set up with a dedicated controller that kids and kids-at-heart could use to control the train on that loop.
- The controller was made up of 3 elements - Engine Driver app on a cell phone, a bluetooth speaker to play the engine sounds, and a USB volume knob to make it easy for little kids to speed up/slow down the train.
- Engine Driver app provided the sounds (it is part of that apps features)
- The app also has a number of "kid friendly" settings —- so for example we were able to put a max speed limit — so no matter how much the kid turned the knob or pressed the "speed up" button, it would not exceed 60% .
NOTE ABOUT MIXED JUNCTIONS: Having a pair of Large Junctions (or Large Corners) sitting side-by-side is 20mm bigger than the combined Standard Junctions (or Std Corners) with a Single in-between. Because the overall size, and the bends in the loops, this was easily compensated by using 29mm track pieces along the outside edges.
Our member Jim H took a number of great photos and posted on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ttrak/posts/26290084090575748
