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Control a Train Layout via the Internet

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Control a Train Layout via the Internet
Posted by SotaPop on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 1:32 PM
I recently re-visited this website to find that it's makers have updated the layout.

Once you open the link below, click on the "Control Desk" tab.  This will open another window with a diagram of the layout and a webcam of it too.

First you click on the layout destination for the train.  Then you select the train you want to move and click on START.  You can then watch the train move, via the webcam, around the layout.

Here's the link: Internet Train Layout

Once you get one train moving, quickly select another destination and train and click START - you can get more than one train moving at a time!

It's a great way to run trains over your lunch hour ... just don't let your boss catch you!   Enjoy.

One thing about trains: It doesn't matter where they’re going. What matters is deciding to get on.

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Posted by More to restore on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 2:30 PM
What a fun idea of those Germans!
It looks really attractive. I did not find the derailing function yet, and did not get everything sorted out, but it certainly looks good. I will try it again, when fewer people are on the tracks as well.
Boy o boy, what would this be great if the same technology would apply on some other great layout I got acquainted with via this forum.
Thanks for sharing Sotaboy!
Nothing beats a finished and restored train car......
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Posted by darianj on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 8:12 PM
That's Cool!
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Posted by beefmalone on Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:49 AM
great find!
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Posted by AKKevinT on Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:02 AM
Thanks for posting this sites address. Very cool indeed.

Kevin T.
Alaska Railroad & PostWar Lionel A fine combination!
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Posted by RR Redneck on Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:33 AM

Now this I have seen before. It is cool once you get the hang of controling the trains.

Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:35 PM
That's is COOL!!!

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