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[quote user="rrebell"] it should do for them what it has for On30, which used to be a fairly minor scale before Bachman entered the fray.[/quote] ... On30 is still hardly visible in the world of model railroading and even if Bachmann would offer the option of BlueRail for all their products, including Bachmann (UK), Graham Farish and Liliput, that would not be a critical mass to be accepted as a new standard, but continued to be seen as a proprietary system. I see dead rail as the one and only chance for any other train control system, but even in this field, BlueRail is not without competition - see DelTang! Still, I can´t picture a layout of the size of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg being battery operated and Bluetooth or R/C controlled. Just take a look of what effort these folks had to undertake to make sure their cars don´t "run out of gas" in hard to reach places! What we are doing here has the quality of foreseeing the future by looking into a crystal ball. Currently, there is no system around which has the potential to succeed DCC in short order. I understand Bachmann´s partnership with BlueRail as an attempt to draw more attention to Bachmann products by segmenting the market and offering a "techie-line". Others have tried that before.
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