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There was an "April 1st" article in one of the magazines over here this year (first time that I know of). Article in Model Rail magazine suggesting that a new control system had been invented that used a tube placed between the rails with plungers (attached to locos) being moved along it by compressed air. Quite a neat joke, as it was tried in full-size railways by I K Brunel (one of his less successful ideas - rats ate the leather seals making it impossible to maintain a vacuum to move the trains...), there's a few surviving examples of the pumping stations though the lines themselves didn't last long - more information here: www.thehistorynet.com/bh/blbrunelrailway/index1.html - hope it's of interest!
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