Subj : Train collection / Magazi
To   : Moondog
From : Radiowave
Date : Thu Dec 19 2019 11:20 am

  Re: Train collection / Magazi
  By: Moondog to Nightfox on Tue Dec 10 2019 10:18 am

 >   Re: Train collection / Magazi
 >   By: Nightfox to Doctor Clu on Mon Dec 09 2019 05:26 pm
 > 
 >  >   Re: Train collection / Magazines
 >  >   By: Doctor Clu to All on Tue Dec 10 2019 12:00 am
 > 
 >  >  DC> We have any train enthusiasts? Have a collection of model trains and magazines that probably was done in the 60's through the late 70's? If
 >  >  DC> interested, write to drclu@swbell.net
 > 
 >  > I enjoy trains but havn't done anything with model trains since I was a kid.
 > 
 >  > Nightfox
 > 
 > 
 > My model railroad experience was more late 70's, eary 80's.  There was a
 > large walk-in closet in between my room and my sister's and my uncle built a table frame that fit so we could walk around it.  The layout moved down t
 > the basement, and I moved it to a sheet of 4x8' plywood.  I had a loop within
 > a loop with switches so I could run two trains on different controllers by isolating the inside loop from the outside loop throughslide on plastic
 > track couplers.  I ran HO trains, since that was popualr and I could find accessories for it at Meijers and Kay Bee Hobbies.  I also had an AFX racing
 > set, the one with the police car and semi tractor and trailer.  That also fit on the layout.  I didn't find out until recently AFX built track with
 > railroad crossings to allow tracks to overlap.
 > 
 > Model Railroader was the magazine I read the most.  I'm still amazed at how mu ch detail some put into their trains and layouts.
 > 
 > I've been chatting with modern railroading folks, and model railroading has also gone high tech.  The trains are processor controlled, and the track a
 > as a network with each locomotive having an assigned address.  You can
 > control several trains on the same track without having to cut off or isolate them on separate circuits.  LED lighting and fiber optics have also
 > improved
 > in keeping the scale of street lights and other small light sources.
 > 


Wow, that's quite interesting, I would have never thought model trains would get so advanced.. Interesting info, thank's for posting.  
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