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Model trains in the future?

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Posted by balidas on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 9:39 PM

I've been thinking about that movie since this thread started.

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I must tell you some time about another kind of train.  A train that doesn’t need any tracks....Really. Remind me in the morning and I’ll tell you all about it.

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Posted by baberuth73 on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 8:28 PM

Whatever some of you have been smoking puhleeze save some for me! I don't want a train that doesn't do the clickety-clack thing and I have to have the smell of ozone and transformers.

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Posted by Penny Trains on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 7:43 PM

Sound IS an issue.  Maybe what we should hope for is safe, reliable miniaturization?  Real steam sounds, real diesel rumble, etc.  I'd love to use live steamers but #1 there's the cost, but also there's the serious risk of blowing yourself up or at least losing a hand and your eyebrows.  I'd have to believe that by this point in time we should have the kind of computer control neccessary to make reliable plug and play O and S gauge live steamers.  Call it "Rail By Wire" to borrow from aviation terminology.

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Posted by lionelsoni on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 6:58 PM

I must tell you some time about another kind of train.  A train that doesn’t need any tracks....Really. Remind me in the morning and I’ll tell you all about it.

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:45 PM

Penny Trains

I'm waiting for figures that move!  Laugh  But I'd settle for automobiles that don't need slotted streets!  Laugh

Becky

BECKY,

  Ask and you shall have, voila something I saw on the other forum.  Check it out....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqobMIup_A

Enjoy,

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 2:27 PM

Penny Trains

I'm waiting for figures that move!  Laugh  But I'd settle for automobiles that don't need slotted streets!  Laugh

Becky

http://www.midlandred.info/fcs.shtml 

 

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Posted by AF53 on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 1:09 PM

Doug - Now that's a good idea. It can even be solar powered! Panels on an O scaled building or trainhouse as the engine is parked it will charging. Now you can call me oldfashioned!

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Posted by AF53 on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 1:05 PM

Boyd

Call me old-fashioned but I'm with scrambler 81 on this. Having only run a train with a transformer, that's how I'm basing my opinion from though. Uni Rail - Laz - might be interesting but really different. Balidas - Railsounds are cool but, if the cars on the tracks don't make thier own sounds, I think it takes some enjoyment out of it. Just my opinion.

Maybe part of it is the sounds, but also that's how our dad or grandfather did it. Maybe that's part of the enjoyment I get running my Pre War stuff. Can't imagine my clockwork levitating, but in the future who knows?????

Ray 

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 9:55 AM

Levitation?  I'd like to see someone make a UNI RAIL, and power it with electo magnets.  Might be cool?

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Posted by cnw1995 on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 9:21 AM

Personally, I'd be interested in O gauge moving in the direction of our larger outdoor brethren - running R/C with rechargeable-battery-operated engines.

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Posted by balidas on Monday, March 28, 2011 6:26 PM

Railsounds!

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 If they no longer make the nice clickety-clack sound as they cruise the rails, what's the fun in running them?

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Posted by Penny Trains on Monday, March 28, 2011 5:55 PM

I'm waiting for figures that move!  Laugh  But I'd settle for automobiles that don't need slotted streets!  Laugh

Becky

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Posted by scrambler81 on Monday, March 28, 2011 3:39 PM

 If they don't touch the track, are they really trains? If they no longer make the nice clickety-clack sound as they cruise the rails, what's the fun in running them? Sorry if I've gone OT, but I like my trains to take me back.

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Model trains in the future?
Posted by Boyd on Monday, March 28, 2011 1:13 PM

If maybe someday technology say from UFOs trickles down to trains,,,,, wouldn't it be fun to have a layout with trains that levitate as they pass over the track? No more sticky reverse units, replacement of traction tires. No more TMCC,,,,, just a lot of RF goofing up everything else on in the house.

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