Jon and list,
These items pop up now and then in the model press when they seem to be short on anything of substance or want to introduce something "new" to the hobby. As one friend of mine put it, "There really hasn't been much of anything new in the hobby for the past forty years - most of the ideas are stolen or reworks of something from the past."
IMO, they are gimmicks and really aren't employed in the real world on a serious layout. When I see things like track elevators (vertical switch - been there, read that a L-O-N-G time ago) swivel plates, train turntables, and other gimmicks, I just move on to more serious and realistic articles.
Not trying to be difficult, but really people, has anyone ever seen one of these contraptions in use on a real layout. And if so, I bet it is only one or two of you on probably just one layout each, if that. Hardly a ground swell.
Well I have to go now and get back to work on the anti gravity interchange track which is picked up by a radio controlled model of the Goodyear blimp using advanced photon modulation technology and carried away to Oz - or is that never-never land? Who cares. I'm sure some model railroad mag will pay me to print it.
At 05:55 AM 2/23/01, jonp@... wrote:
The point I want to make is that these special solutions -- traverser
tracks, flying interchanges, train turntables -- can be made to work
and can prove to be practical, but you might want to consider how
integral a part of train operations the special solution will become.
Paul Kossart - Peru, Illinois, USA
BRHS, La Salle & Bureau County Model Railroad Club
Modeling the Fictional CB&Q Illiniwek River Branch in HO in the 1960's...
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"Serving Agriculture and Industry in the Illiniwek River Valley since 1904."
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