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Last April I had the opportunity to chat with Mike Wolf one on one for at least an hour while he was visiting my local hobby shop. He is a very nice man and very interested in his train systems. The subject turned to the lawsuit with BLI. I had recently purchased a BLI On30 2-8-0. I said that I was disappointed that I did not get all I paid for. Mr. Wolf explained that the whole point of the suit against BLI was the one mph speed increments. He pointed out that MTH engines could be timed with a stopwatch to prove that they were running at the rate of scale mph they were set for. I asked about Lionel and the rest. He said that they were all OK. As he seemed to be getting a little testy I did not ask how anybody could patent a rate of acceleration. It seems like somebody trying to copyright the alphabet or an arithmetic operation like long division. Since I have no training in electronics I would like to know how the electronics involved in making the trains accelerate in one MPH increments differs from the electronics needed for any OTHER rate of acceleration. Isn't it just a matter of settings? Shows how much I know....Odd-d
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