Well, if it weren't for the price, I'd say I'd found a solution to my space issue!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
cacole I saw something like that a few years ago at a train show. It was called The Cigar Box Train. Ran around in a circle inside a wooden cigar box, pulled by a piano wire sticking up through a slot, connected to a slow RPM motor. Only a novelty item.
I saw something like that a few years ago at a train show. It was called The Cigar Box Train. Ran around in a circle inside a wooden cigar box, pulled by a piano wire sticking up through a slot, connected to a slow RPM motor. Only a novelty item.
I like the glasses case layout, only $55.00 and you can take it with you
http://www.tiny-trains.net/product/GLASSES%20CASE
Imagine trying to explain this to TSA when you are boarding an airplane, "Gee sir, this is just my train layout"
Someone mentioned nano motors; this is what their site says about how they work:
How do they run? - A motor/gearbox inside the layout base drives a belt inside the track, which pulls the train around the layout. The motor is normally powered by a wall power transformer (some layouts are powered by a 9VDC Battery or manually operated).
The only thing is they are prebuilt, that takes most of the fun out ov the modeling end of things.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Some Videos of TY scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaueAkqvrDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZxW6Cr2onc&feature=related
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
jeffrey-wimberly I've got one thing to say about those tiny things. DON'T SNEEZE!!
I've got one thing to say about those tiny things.
DON'T SNEEZE!!
That's funny... even the second time...
I'd be interested to see what else can be done with those nano-drives, though... N-scale speeder cars anyone?
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
PackerI've seen these things, but haven't quite figuredout how they work.
Are these the ones that are blown around the track by air currents from a small fan underneath the "benchwork"?
DERN!!!!!
Someone will eventually figure out how to shoehorn a sound decoder into those.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
I've seen these things, but haven't quite figuredout how they work.
But for their price, I think I'll stick with HO.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
I can see it now. An HO scale house with a G scale garden RR in the back yard. I wonder if I could stuff a DCC decoder in it?
Pete
I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
Somehow, I can't see this catching on with the car card and waybill operators - of whom I am one. The reporting marks would be too hard to read...
In N scale the card is bigger than the car. In 1:900, the card would be bigger than the layout!
Still, it is interesting - on a 'Cute once' basis, or as a conversation starter.
Or a garden-scale modeler could install one as a model railroad in a wayside house (or hobby shop window.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - in HOj, 1:80 scale)
Look what I found! http://www.tiny-trains.net/products