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Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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Date: 
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:31:55 GMT
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--snip--

> 
> You (or I, or someone) could always make some track charging station with a
> little engine-uity [that could]...
> 
> We could connect linear contacts of undetermined length to a wall
> transformer and put them inside the rails.  Then, the train with the battery
> could have something plugged into its charging jack that would run along
> these contacts to charge the battery everytime it went around the loop...
> 
> I may not have thought of that before someone else (I didn't check), but I
> like it!
> 
> -Rob
> www.lifelites.com

I believe that's vaguely how the trains at Legoland Berlin run.

Tim



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  Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
 
"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:JyBFrz.E48@lugnet.com... (...) You (or I, or someone) could always make some track charging station with a little engine-uity [that could]... We could connect linear contacts of (...) (19 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)

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