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"The first transition era - wood to steel!"
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Modeling the B&M Railroad during the transition era in Lowell, MA
QUOTE: Originally posted by DigitalGriffin Battery backup for bad pickups/dead sections of track
QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse For instance: Add variables of steam, water, fuel, and sand to steamers. Making it so you have to stop and fill-up and switch engines. Add momentum to the train with the addition of each car making them harder to start and stop. (and making it impossible ti just reverse direction by flipping a switch) BE able to visually know the location of all trains on the layout.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
QUOTE: Originally posted by 8500HPGASTURBINE 2. NETWORKING DCC that will let you run trains on other peoples layouts.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy Personally I would like to see more animated accessories/mini scenes rather than trains passing through a 'frozen' scene. I guess I would like to see stuff moving that wasnt just on the track. I have ideas for a tree swing using magnets, one or two loggers/carpenters using a saw, someone chopping wood, someone painting a fence moving the brush up & down the panels. I have seen a scene with a rocking rocking chair on a porch and will probably attempt this also.The trouble is the motions need to be realistically repetative, as in my thoughts above. We have the technology. Have fun & be safe Karl
QUOTE: Originally posted by GDRMCo ...Well I believe that we will have deisel locomotives running on R/C car fuel. It would pretty much use scaled down engines with cubic millimeter bore cylinders and use a air fuel mixture that would be ignited by a small spark. so if you had opening side doors you could see a minature V12 hard at work driveing the locomotive. plus you'd get the fumes and all!
ML