Betcha' you can't model this!!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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http://www.buffaloschips.com/62411.htm [:D]

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Dang commuter trains!!! [:D]

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I’ve seen that video before, but it would be an animation/motion nightmare to get all the canopies opened and the display tables moved back after the train passes.

Hmm, What’d happen if Thai commuter rail headways are decreased, to say, every 10 minutes…

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WHAT was that??

Jimmy M

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I don’t know, but it would cost a fortune. The canopies would just be a simple pivot any stall motor would do it. Very light cloth should fold just like the real ones do. Syncronizing with the train would require lots of sensors. Light sensors (like IR) probably wouldn’t work because of the shadows of the “scenery”. It would be tricky to get it to work with fewer stall motors than one per canopy. That would be economically prohibitive.

The tables would be harder, but once again a tortoise could be used to pull them back and push them out.

The really hard part would be the people, but I guess that is the hard part with everything we model.

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And now you know why I model Japan and not Thailand…

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Too bad the video didn’t start a bit earlier showing the canopies and tables being pulled back.

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No, it’s probably easier and cheaper to model the derailment where the locomotive derails and falls hundreds of scale feet to a concrete floor.

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HMMMMM…an open air market in Pakistan with a Skokie Swift running through it. Of course I could always just model Jersey!!! (Doh!!)

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HEY!!! We don’t get out of the trains way here - we just let them run over us!! [:D]

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In Poland there’s tracks in a McDonald’s drive-thru, and yes, the trains do stop for burgers.

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What if the canopies were operated by a manual system?

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Please don’t tempt me - I almost got fired for telling a Polish joke - S L O W L Y [:P]

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HEY!![:(!]Watch THAT!![;)]

All I get is bombarded with pop ups from your link. No video…(I know which one it is though.)

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The easiest way would be to have everything move at once or as a single unit. With that said the table(s) unit could be built as sliding plate form with strings attaching to the canopies to the same linkage that hooks to a switch to kill track power when the trackage is blocked. Only allowing the train to pass when the path is clear.

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try that with the Shikansen…

WHOOSH!!!

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See how light rail creates a rich environment for retail to grow?

[swg]

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Bad news if that train had a second section!

Jon D.