Tri-Ang Railways T78 England Horse Box Rd# W2483 ~ European Couplers - RARE - TT

Description

Very nice Horse Transport for your layout, Note the open "windows" provided for the veterinarian or attendant.
For many decades, racehorse
owners regarded the railway as the quickest, cheapest,
safest, and most efficient medium of equine transport.
The
horse express car allowed the animals (in some instances) to leave home the morning of a
race, theoretically reducing stress and fatigue.
As early as 1833 in England, specially-padded boxcars equipped with feeding and water apparatus were constructed specifically for transporting draft
and sport horses. In the United States. however, horses generally traveled in conventional stock cars or ventilated boxcars. Early on, the need for
improved methods for tethering horses in boxcars, while at the same time allowing a horse enough room to maintain its balance while in transit, was
recognized.
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TT scale
is a niche model railroading scale, whose name stands for
t
able
t
o; Its 1:120 or ( 1:101.6 in UK) scale.   It is derived from a common engineering
scale where one inch equals ten feet} and
12 mm
(
0.472 in
)  gauge sizes it almost halfway between HO scale (1:87) and N scale (1:160).    Its original
purpose, like the name suggests, was to make a train small enough to be able to assemble and operate it on a tabletop.
TT retains a comparatively small niche in the United States and in the United Kingdom, but its growing popularity in the former East Germany makes it the
second most popular scale in Eastern Europe and Russia.   Adherents to TT maintain it is the smallest practical scale, especially for those who like to build
models from scratch.    TT scale was widespread in the Eastern Bloc thanks to the "Berliner Bahnen", manufacturer of the trainsets in TT scale.
- Wikipedia