Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad
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@travisdh1 said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:
@scottalanmiller said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:
@travisdh1 said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:
@scottalanmiller said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:
PCs only seem to boot slowly because they tend to boot enormous GUIs, from slow disks and don't use a memory image.
Still, you're comparing two platforms meant for two different tasks. One is always nearly instantly up and running while the other could possibly be made somewhat close through a LOT of effort.
Not a lot of effort. Just seems that way because people assume other setups.
Now for RP I've never looked so not sure much much it would take.
sighWell, if someone around here figures it out let me know. My collection of RP2 and 3 will thank you.
Mostly I haven't looked because I don't even have one to play with.
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I have kits from the 30's and 60's. I haven't touched them in years. I plan on giving them to the grandchildren..... or maybe a car -- hehe.
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My dad still has American Flyers, somewhere.
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My dads dad (and his dad lol) and all his bothers and sisters have all been working for the 'Deutsche Bahn'. ( my generation stopped that none of us is working there lol) so they are all model train obsessed.
I have no idea what brands are there in the US for that stuff but in Germany Fleischmann and Märklin are the 2 main brands.
My dad has (spend wayyyy too much money on that stuff) a ton of different sizes, as kids we use to have mainly LGB (which is 1:22.5 , so rather big) then my dad added HO and O stuff.He has a ton os special, and rare engines (such as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_(locomotive))
He also upgraded his stream engines to actually steam and make noises and such lol
He even had like train ports with a 'drehschleife' (like that thing the engine drives on and it has a peice of track just long enough for the engine and it can turn it around? no clue what that is called in english lol) but in LGB size those things weight a ton and were no cheap lol We usually build it up for christmas. laster when me moved from a condo into a house he build a huge mini landscape in the basement.I did not care too much about it though lol but my neighbor, who is my age was really into it and had a ton of native stuff from Märklin that could control and program multiple trains (I think it was called Märklin Digital). And I know there are several museums dedicated to that, having models trans and landscapes and cars and all that automated. http://www.modellbahn-im-museum.de/ but the last time i looked into that , that was years ago, I am sure nowadays woth the Pi and arduino it should be easier and cheaper to get stuff like that automated, though it is still pretty technical as for the cars, you either have to have electric cars and program the route in them, or have like a magnetic track under them they can follow. Many options.... if you are into that stuff, you can dump a LOT of money and time. lol
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@Neally Atlas is a big player in the US. Marklin is widely available, but expensive, in the US. Fleischmann, not so much. Can't get TT easily here, either.
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I have mostly HO, some O27(?)-3 rail and some N Gauge. All Lionel and I believe, all before the company got twisted around in the late 60's / early 70's.
I had a board when I was much younger, but took it down and boxed it up. It's been sitting on a shelf ever since. -
My brother has a goodly amount of Hot Wheels and tracks from the same era. Also on a shelf. Something we can hand down, I guess.
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@scotth said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:
I have mostly HO, some O27(?)-3 rail and some N Gauge. All Lionel and I believe, all before the company got twisted around in the late 60's / early 70's.
I had a board when I was much younger, but took it down and boxed it up. It's been sitting on a shelf ever since.All of my own are N. if I'm in Europe I'll do TT.
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If I remember correctly, Tyco was a 'player' in the model railroading milieu at the time as well.
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@scotth said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:
If I remember correctly, Tyco was a 'player' in the model railroading milieu at the time as well.
In the power boxes, yes, but not in the trains themselves I don't think.
