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Decoders in each train car speaking to your PDA by wireless preciesly what is loaded (Or not loaded) and where it needs to go.Instead of shuffling car cards one would tap a bunch of buttons and squint into a small screen.Trains will have sort of mini GPS onboard and know pretty much where your track goes and where down to the milli-meter level. If you hooked a local engine to a train full of decoders talking to it it might be able to proceed to a town and switch it without human input.You probably will be reduced to a role of MOW.. fixing derailments and balky couplers asap.People will log onto your home server and operate your railroad by Signalling via the Internet instead of actually trying to meet together one night a month.Maybe a virtual railroad will be build that precisely replicate your layout down to the last tie and spike so that these operators from the other side of the globe will know where they have been and where they are going. Thier virtual trains will be updated by your layout's sensors and loconet plus signals data from all the trains currently running.We already have people commuting to a base in Nevada to fly combat missions via remote control of unmanned robot aircraft 24/7 around the globe in real time. So it should not be too difficult.In fact, it might be easier for a real railroad to allow control of thier trains this way instead of trying to maintain actual humans on that engine obeying the hog law.
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