Tutorials

The T-TRAK website documents the standards to which a module must adhere but because the standards are so simple and few it raises a lot of questions for those new to T-TRAK. For anyone considering connecting their module(s) to those of others then be sure to also read the document T-Trak Interface Guidelines Version 1.

Hopefully the tutorials linked in these pages will help all T-TRAK modelers as we learn from each other.

Module Construction

• Before You Build
• Non-Standard Lengths
• Module Construction Methods
• Building a Quad (4x Standard length) T-Trak module
• Fascia Considerations
  • Two inch Fascias
  • Bent Laminated Fascias
• Leveling Bolts
  • Carriage bolts / Hex head full thread bolts / Set Screws
  • Jeff's Adjustable Feet
  • Bill's Adjustable Feet
• Cut Patterns
  • Panel Optimization on Sheet Material
  • Thirteen T-TRAK-N Singles from a 4' x 8' sheet of Hardboard
  • T-TRAK-N Cut Patterns

Track Considerations

• Aligning Tracks
• Tweaking #4 Switches
• Cutting Kato Unitrack
• Kato Unitrack Length Issue - Fact or Fiction?
• Using Flex-track with Unitrack

Layout Considerations

• Building Balloon Loops with T-Junctions
• Various Balloon Loop Ideas
• Expandable Balloon Loops
• Double and Triple Length Interchange Modules

Layout Design

• AnyRail
• Microsoft Excel (placeholder)
• Microsoft Visio (placeholder)
• RailModeller Pro for OSX
• Plastic Inch to Foot T-TRAK Models on Thingiverse by Josh Murrah

Wiring

• Standard wiring
• Layout Wiring
• BWWB Versus BWBW
• Module Wiring and Layout Wiring for T-TRAK
• Make Your Own Terminal Joiners
• Solderless Terminal UniJoiners
• Double Crossover Wiring
• Feeder Wire Management
• Bus Cabling Systems
  • NVNTrak's Cabling System
  • SWARMTRAK module wiring practices-Anderson Power Poles
  • NTTT Cabling System
  • Josh Murrah's bus cables
• T-TRAK Wiring Tester Version 3

Command & Control

• AustNTrak T-TRAK Control Unit
• NTTT Rolling Command Station
• DCC All In One (AIO) Command And Control Power Station

Transporting/Storing Modules

• Cardboard boxes
• Plastic Storage Boxes
• Straps
• Carriers

Scenery Components

• DIY Kato Ballast
• Adding Ballast
• Chipboard Roads

Animation Ideas

• Sound as Animation

Exhibition Preparation

• Show Checklist
• Signs And Brochures
• T-TRAK Information Table

Clinic Presentations

• TBD

Trains - locomotives, rolling stock

• Locomotives
• Rolling Stock
  • Lighting the Kato Caboose