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Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:13:54 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
> I’d like to pose a question that’s been bothering me lately. Since RC trains
> made they’re debut last year many issues have risen with the product in its
> current form. Mainly these are control and power issues but there are many other
> quirks as well. Since plastic track seems to be here to stay, Common sense tells
> me Lego is eventually going to kill off the 9v line. Knowing this, we as a
> community need to think about eventually converting to plastic rails. This also
> means now would be a great time to tell Lego what we need for plastic rails to
> work for us.
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> This leads me to my question; given the current IR RC train line what changes
> do you see necessary for you to convert from 9v track to plastic track and why?
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> Ondrew
Non-LEGO model railroaders have been scratch building power trains for decades.
We should be able to come up with motored wheels and power pic-up (probably
based on DCC).
The big problem is the track. I think it will be possible to put metal on new
track. Alternatively we could use O gaugue rails or even track.
Unfortunately the purist are out of luck
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