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Topic: Model Railroaders, anyone ?
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Gerard S. Cohen
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 12-25-2003 11:33 AM
Today's NYTimes [12/25/03, Circuits section] has an illustrated article on digital model railroading, explaining how the digital remote controls enable the running of multiple trains on the same track (up to 32, with one controller), and comparing it to analog systems, which require separations of circuits, voltages and currents.
The online edition article, "Stoke the Nostalgia, and the Old Rails Keep Humming", is a brief history of model railroading, not especially rewarding, but you have to access it to get to the illustrations and diagrams by clicking on the small box in the right-hand margin entitled "A Different Kind of Local Area Network." This shows well on my computer, but cannot be copied nor accessed directly. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/technology/circuits/25howw.html
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Steve Kraus
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posted 12-26-2003 09:23 AM
Randy didn't mention it but his locale of Erie, PA is the home of General Electric Transportation Systems, the major USA builder of diesel locomotives since GM shifted final assembly for its Electro Motive Division from outside Chicago to London, ON. The LaGrange, IL (mailing address; it's actually in McCook.) plant still builds the diesel engines, the alternators, traction motors, and assembles the electrical cabinets. Body components were being trucked from Super Steel Milwaukee but I haven't seen them on the highway for awhile so don't know if that is still true.
I haven't been a modeler since I was a kid (although a nearbye shelf holds HO F7A & F7B models I picked up at a hamfest) but I am very much a train buff in terms of reading, watching, photography etc. I continue to build my collection of TRAINS magazines which is pretty much solid from '53 forward; filling in the 1940's and early 50's now.
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