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Re: Train automation - ideas & implementations?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 16 May 2005 20:26:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Davis wrote:
> OK, I've got a simple system for dumping hopper cars, and some ideas on
> making it "look better", but I'd love to see other ideas or designs for this.
> I've got ideas for offloading and possibly loading standard-sized containers as
> well. But looking through the Steve Barile's advanced trainbuilding PDF, near
> the end I find a slide listing several other things I'd love to learn about:
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> 1) Lights, Fans (Mark Hafner's Battery Box)
> 2) Shay (Ben's), Climax
> 3) Snow Blower
> 4) Mail car (magnetic delivery)
> 5) Dumping hoppers
> 6) Lionel animated cars
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> Any place I can find more information on these? LUGNET or others? I'm thinking
> about ways of actually "doing" things with trains, like moving cargo etc., as
> well as automated sidings, points, crossing guards,... cows (who would have
> thought). Some of these (bovines) are well-covered on LUGNET, but others (like
> "magnetic delivery", dumping hoppers, etc.) don't seem to be.
Check out Huw Millington's RCX automated hopper discharge plant from a few years
ago
http://www.1000steine.de/themen/bauwettbewerb/006/006.htm
Tim
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