I am sitting here watching my G scale Aristocraft Alco FA-1 running around my overhead loop in our living room and the light bulb went off in my head. What about putting onboard battery and RC in a Weaver 3 rail PRR M1a mountain? Plenty of room in the huge tender for it. The G scale Alco has 2 can motors, 4 light bulbs plus an LED head light. I am over 3 hours of solid run time and the battery shows no sign of voltage drop yet. I am using a Onyx 5000mah 7.2vt Nimh battery from my RC cars, its fed thru a DPDT toggle to select run or charging. Since I am a "turn it on and let it run" type of operator, its perfect, nice easy 25-30 smph. I would probably put an actual tx/rx set up in the mountain. I am thinking of using RCS as its small and is supposed to have very little voltage draw. I would disable the smoke, dont use it normaly due to asthma. No sound as it bothers me(autistic sensory issue). With a single can motor, run times should be excellent. Of coarse you might say "why?", well my friend and I are planning a sizable outdoor loop at his place and eventualy mine. This would eliminate the need to clean track all the time. A quick set up to run would be a snap. Anybody tried this with an engine? Mike
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(For big and little kids who remember reading the Little Golden Book, "Tootle", .....why not?
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