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Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:13:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:
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> > if you guys think this is a good idea please post
> > here... they are reading it!
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> That sounds interesting, although thinking about it from the standpoint of
> robotics & robotic trains even more ideas are presenting themselves to me. I'm
> not sure how this would work with trains... if a discharging train hits a power
> section of old 9V track, it might automatically stop, holding in that position
> to recharge... but that blocks the track. In other words, while completely
> automated here when the line goes down that loop goes down, right? Stil very
> useful, but I'm trying to think of a better way.
From a train point of view, not an issue, simply have a loop (in the UK railway
sense of the term. i.e. a double ended siding) and have another train bypass the
charging train.
tim
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| (...) Sure - but then it's not automated. You have to get the first train onto the siding, or (if it was running around the track through the siding in the first place) you have to throw the switch so any other train bypasses the siding on the main (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) That sounds interesting, although thinking about it from the standpoint of robotics & robotic trains even more ideas are presenting themselves to me. I'm not sure how this would work with trains... if a discharging train hits a power section (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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