Ultra-Gauge Electric Trains: Guidelines and Basics

ULTRA-GAUGE ELECTRIC TRAINS Guidelines and Basics

What we are about:
A Web Log (easily updated Internet web site) about non-riding train models powered by electricity, a special interest usually covered by live steam publications

The Name:

ULTRA --- technically “beyond”, popularly “really large”

GAUGE --- referring to the distance between the rails: wider than Large Scale, the name that has been appropriated by the Garden Railway hobby for “G Gauge”

ELECTRIC --- Models powered by electricity, not by live steam or small gasoline engines

RAIL --- covers trains and other transportation that run on two rails, and excludes --- as fascinating as they are --- Monorails and Magnetic Levitation

Taglines
"Not your father’s electric trains"
"Because size matters"
"Run ‘em, don’t ride ‘em"
"Model trains on steroids"

Prototypes
Trolleys, interurbans, and trams
Heavy traction locomotives, including box cabs
Light rail
Subways and elevated urban transit
Steam locomotives
Diesel (really diesel-electric) locomotives

Unusual optional garnishes
Forced perspective --- larger stuff closer to the eye, smaller stuff in the background allowing us to include equipment and scenery from other scales, such as O Scale background flats, 2” = 1’ action figures in the foreground, and G Scale miniature figures

Guiding Lights
Mark Stark
Alex Nutkowitz
Etienne Pelta

Contact
UGET
P O Box 208
Ellenton, Florida 34222 U.S.A.

eMail: hhpelta@msn.com at any time

Telephone: Inconvenient --- we don’t want to be woken out of a sound sleep by a wide-awake train enthusiast East of the Greenwich Meridian or West of the International Date Line