Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
In the comments, 8 locomotives and 228 cars. I did not try to count.
Video is almost 5 minutes long and you get the idea after 3 minutes.
I wonder how long this train was (in feet).
Pat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtc__nxtQSc
cool...ill guess about 150 feet???
That's amazing, when I was a youngster and had lionel trains, I could never get them to turn like that, they would always jump the tracks and pull the rest of the train with it...
Thanks for sharing...
llamb
Loc: Northeast Ohio
That was interesting.
~Lee
Do you know whether that was HO or N gauge?
Jay Pat wrote:
In the comments, 8 locomotives and 228 cars. I did not try to count.
Video is almost 5 minutes long and you get the idea after 3 minutes.
I wonder how long this train was (in feet).
Pat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtc__nxtQScWow that was great!
Interesting dynamics problem. What controls the slave locomotive power? Do the locomotives have force sensors on the hitch points?
The comments were fun to read as well and I resemble many of them. ;)
Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
jackm1943 wrote:
Do you know whether that was HO or N gauge?
I do not know....
JD750 wrote:
Wow that was great!
Interesting dynamics problem. What controls the slave locomotive power? Do the locomotives have force sensors on the hitch points?
The comments were fun to read as well and I resemble many of them. ;)
I think it is the use of a DCC (digital command center). You can control several locos at the same time.
I don't think there are force sensors, but there could be.....
Pat
jackm1943 wrote:
Do you know whether that was HO or N gauge?
The title of the video is “The spiral with Ho Scale ( side view )”
Jay Pat wrote:
I think it is the use of a DCC (digital command center). You can control several locos at the same time.
I don't think there are force sensors, but there could be.....
Pat
DCC! That is impressive! Things have come a long way since I was a kid. (Yes we did have electricity back then).
I wonder about the force sensors because it seems like the pushing force would need to vary as the locomotives entered and spiraled around the loop.
Jay Pat
Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA
JD750 wrote:
DCC! That is impressive! Things have come a long way since I was a kid. (Yes we did have electricity back then).
I wonder about the force sensors because it seems like the pushing force would need to vary as the locomotives entered and spiraled around the loop.
I don't know. I'm just starting to learn about this hobby.
There is a lot to learn or consider when trying to figure out what to do.
JD750 wrote:
The title of the video is “The spiral with Ho Scale ( side view )”
Thanks, somehow I managed to miss that.
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