Re: Upside down model railroad

Joe Ellis <synthfilker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:synthfilker-
B65751.10544507062008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <484a7d3a$0$31982$9a6e19ea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Wolf Kirchmeir <wolfkir@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> My son sent me this link. I think I've figured out how it's done.
>> 
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/06/model-train-runs-ups.html
> 
> 
> It runs awfully jerky, even for a Bachmann N scale. I suspect that 
> there's either another train inside the table with magnets, or more 
> likely just a low RPM motor with an arm and magnets, and of course 
> magnets in the cars and dummy locomotive as well. 
> 
> Want to impress me? Make it run a figure eight.
> 

I thought about the practicality of building a door layout once.  One 
that would still be hung on its hinges when run.  Getting the cars to 
work would be easy, just install a steel plate under the rails and put 
magnets in them.  The locomotive would be much more difficult because of 
the motor.  I guess you could ****eld the magnetic fields in the motor and 
use other magnets in place of the weights.

It would be fun to see, especially if done properly and the trains could 
be taken off the door and put on an N scale layout and still run!

Puckdropper
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