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(...) back (...) ;^) OK - I won't say it! Slam-o-rama, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The RCX ramps down the engine speed when it's backing down a siding, until it clicks on a car and bumps into a buffer that's got a touch sensor embedded within. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm using a borrowed design prototype from another post here - don't recall enough to credit them right now - but it's a motorized technic beam jutting out perpendicular to the track, intercepting the two magnets and forcing them apart. Wait - (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Now tell me how to make one without using anything that is not lego and without modifying any lego :) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) touch (...) counters (...) OK. You've got my attention now. I'm very interested. How does the train trip the touch sensor? (Please don't say it rams into it). Scott A (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A wye is a method of reversing the direction of a engine, so that it faces the other way, like a turntable. (crude artwork ---...---(connetion to mainline, or could be mainline) ` ' ` ' y | One leg of it must be insulated, so that you can (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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