Europeans do it again!

OMG....   when did they move Australia to Europe???


Laurie has been doing this for years using DCC. Great fun and is a regular on the soundtraxx list.

Last week. I did not pay too much attention to location, Sorry! I was overly impressed by video!

George/nw2124  "Progress - either you are for it, or get out the way!"

It's a creative bit of modeling. Thanks for the video.

Bob

I think you also missed the fact that this is HO(HOn3) narrow gauge. You seem to be totally confused.

SkyHookDepot: You should watch the video with the sound on as he did this in another scale also ----On3!  Shows you can be confused also. NOTE -- I did not say it was O scale, just that this was "astounding"!  Please quote me where I said it was O! ! ! ! Why don't you comment on the video as flanger has done instead of being confused. Back to the subject! This video is way to cool.

George/nw2124  "Progress - either you are for it, or get out the way!"

I had seen this...very cool. 

Or maybe "they think ready-to-run is a joke and can not believe we are still producing/collecting it"

Nah...too condescending. Maybe.

Or maybe "they think expecting contest quality models out of the box is a joke..." instead of, I dunno, modeling the desired level of exactitude ourselves--like the gent in the above quoted videos appears to be doing. 

This must by why I get recurring fantasies of designing and building my own power trucks, cause there are a few things in 2-rail traction I'd thought of taking on and converting to 3-rail myself, if only for the fact that there are no viable means of powering them (and I've scratchbuilt a few freight cars in my time, not to mention diddling around with casting parts with RTV molds). And before someone mentions them, I think those spring-belt traction drives are less than ideal--expensive and the belt-driven axles don't contribute any significant tractive effort, from what I've seen.

---PCJ

Yes, europeans look down on 3-rail, that is why Marlkin quit making it.

Ho, wait!  Marklin still makes AC powered trains that run on stud rail and they remain quite popular.  That must be why MTH now offers locomotives designed to run on the Marklin system.  Those europeans are so cleaver, especially the ones from Maryland.  

That is a lovely narrow gauge layout.  The structures are especially well done.  Animation on a locomotive is real feat due to the space limitations.  But I have to say that I have seen more complex animation from commercial or scratch built features for 2 and 3 rail O layouts built in the USA, if that matters.  It's a big world with many talented people located in every corner of it.  Thanks to the internet most of us can easily share what we are doing.  

Austria,  Australia, what's it matter.

I'd be confused by the accent myself.

 But I think O    3 rail would do well in Europe. The last time I was there most seemed to  live in flats or apts. and room for a good 2 rail would be difficult.

I was browsing through scoopmmr's videos and, even though it's not 3 rail, I was even more amazed at this video.  I'm envious of the modeling skills it takes to accomplish something like this.  Any examples here, on OGR?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=related

Newbie Ron

Sorry I couldn't respond sooner...You're right. How silly of me to think I was going to see something related to O scale on an O Scale forum.  My comment on the video is that this stuff is always interesting but certainly not groundbreaking or "astounding" as you like to put it. Astounding would be a flying locomotive, for example. Way too cool.

Additionally, a very close listening to the video indicates only that he was talking about the possibility of doing this with O. No kidding! What a revelation. By the way, I am an avid HO modeler as well as 3-rail O.

Sherlock Holmes once said of Watson..."You see but you do not observe."

SkyHook heres your O scale..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=related

LOL!