Subj : Train collection / Magazi
To   : Nightfox
From : Moondog
Date : Tue Dec 10 2019 10:18:00

  Re: Train collection / Magazi
  By: Nightfox to Doctor Clu on Mon Dec 09 2019 05:26 pm

 >   Re: Train collection / Magazines
 >   By: Doctor Clu to All on Tue Dec 10 2019 12:00 am
 > 
 >  DC> We have any train enthusiasts? Have a collection of model trains and
 >  DC> magazines that probably was done in the 60's through the late 70's? If
 >  DC> interested, write to drclu@swbell.net
 > 
 > I enjoy trains but havn't done anything with model trains since I was a kid.
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 

My model railroad experience was more late 70's, eary 80's.  There was a
large walk-in closet in between my room and my sister's and my uncle built a
table frame that fit so we could walk around it.  The layout moved down to
the basement, and I moved it to a sheet of 4x8' plywood.  I had a loop within
a loop with switches so I could run two trains on different controllers by
isolating the inside loop from the outside loop throughslide on plastic
track couplers.  I ran HO trains, since that was popualr and I could find
accessories for it at Meijers and Kay Bee Hobbies.  I also had an AFX racing
set, the one with the police car and semi tractor and trailer.  That also fit
on the layout.  I didn't find out until recently AFX built track with
railroad crossings to allow tracks to overlap.

Model Railroader was the magazine I read the most.  I'm still amazed at how mu
ch detail some put into their trains and layouts.

I've been chatting with modern railroading folks, and model railroading has
also gone high tech.  The trains are processor controlled, and the track acts
as a network with each locomotive having an assigned address.  You can
control several trains on the same track without having to cut off or isolate
them on separate circuits.  LED lighting and fiber optics have also improved
in keeping the scale of street lights and other small light sources.

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