Busy downtown traffic in San Beattadaise

Lee - That video is totally awesome!  You have nailed the look of a typical downtown of a small to medium-sized town.  Adding your realistic cars, cabs, and buses that are running at scale speeds is the finishing touch!

Art

Lee, What you have accomplished is very impressive. What a wonderful fleet of autos, buses, and trucks you have created. Your electronic flywheels seem to work perfectly. I appreciate your sharing your knowledge with us.

Paul Goodness

Fabulous!!!!!!

This is very impressive!!! You have taken Super Streets to a super level.

This is excellent Lee; great work.

Have you thought about putting detectors in the front end of the cars to keep them well apart; if they detect something they slow down or stop for a pre-determined period before taking off again?  I'm not sure what would be needed, but I suspect you've already been thinking about it.

Again, very nice.

r0d

WOW, that is some setup you have...   very well done!!

A sensor at the front of cars would be a neat idea.  

I do it differently now.  They stay apart for two reasons.  First, they all run just about the same speed: the cars are all WBB sedan chassis and run just about identically, except the two Brooklin bodied cars are a tad slower.  The buses i tuned to the same speed with diodes and resistors in series with the motor.  Left to their own speeds, one or two bunch up in about five minutes.

But for that, , I shoot an infrared beam down a six foot section of road and if it sees a car( the bean is interrupted) it opens the circuit to a eight foot section of track behind it.  Because the cars have electronic flywheels they don't stop when thei power is cut, but they slow down over eight feet enough that they drop about five feet behind.  Unfortuantely that circuit (home built) burned out the IR sensor this afternoon: I overloaded the poor thing with too much amperage driving the relay I think.  I'm going to order a Micromark kit that does the same thing tomorrow.  While it worked it 

Just amazing. I love the video.

this looks really great.

So cool! It really brings the whole layout to life. Your well positioned traffic cop even comes to life with all the traffic.

That is very cool Lee. I'm so glad I don't have the room. Because after seeing that, well I'd have to go crazy. You're amazing work has saved me many hours of frustration and bushels of money..................

Wow.

Looks like you might have the turn around just to the left of the camera.  Show that area to see how you did it.

Jim

Outstanding....all that's missing is traffic sounds.

Very cool!!!! The accurate bodies and the buses really make it fantastic. I know generic bodies are cheaper for WbB but as a car guy.......I like yours!!

Great work Lee!  It is a real treat to see your ingenuity at work!

So cool, Lee.  Thats amazing!  I really enjoyed watching that, thanks

always enjoy watching his super streets, nice realistic traffic flow

Lee....your efforts are getting more and more perfect each day that goes by.  This video shows the cars and buses going at speeds that are realistic and all of them seem to run smoothly.  I would be willing to bet that you have helped the sale of the super streets line more than any one individual....we thank you so much for your inspiration!!

Alan

That's a sweet set up!

Tin 

All I can say is WOW!!!!   All that is missing is some prerecorded city sounds.

I am totally speechless.

Jim McClenin

You, Mr. Willis are an amazing engineer and a modelling wizard.

How can you possibly have time to do all this wonderful work?

Wow!  Lee, that's incredible!  Impressive from both an engineering and modelling perspective.

-Dustin

Great work Lee. Thanks for sharing!

Now that's what I call enjoying your hobby. Hopefully you still run your trains. Wonderful.

romiller

Awesome!  Now you need some car horn and engine sounds

Cool, Lee. I was running multiple vehicles the other night, will have to try to get video to share with you, although my streets are not as well done as yours.

Very impressive, very impressive.