In this day of computers the size of a pennies and other such compact technological wonders has anyone tried adding RFID to their rolling stock to track it’s movements over the line? Or how bout a small motor on a decoder to simulate brakes, momentum, and inertia in rolling stock? Or a model railroad interchange where cars travel over multiple railroads to simulate the life of an actual railcar?
There was an RFID article in MR a year or so back. Prob with motors ect in rolling stock is you are adding weight
Yep, Dec., 2014. A very detailed article.
Mike.
Hi
I am interested in adding detection through RFID on my layout. I have a HO DCC layout. I have been reading up quiet a bit on RFIDs and searching the internet for cheap readers. There seem to be a few readers and tags that come close. But I am looking to see if anyone has tried RFID to identify the locomotive and its location.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Regards
Gmurls
There’s now a commercial product for RFID available. No programming your own Arduino or any of that. Was just shown at the national Train Shoow. Trainn Traxx is the company.
–Randy
Train Trax has the stuff. A starter set with some basic H/W and ‘beta’ software is $180. A full featured system with H/W and their S/W is around $500?
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Please stick around and keep up up to date on this project. It sounds interesting.
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-Kevin
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Did someone ask about Hi-tech rolling stock?
Yes, there is Hi-tech rolling stock - baby hi-cube box cars and detail parts.
Thanks. I read up on the Train Traxx. Sound very interesting. I am now looking at the cost and detailed design for my layout using train traxx. I will post how it goes.
Regards
GMurls
Interesting thread I just watched an Northfolk Southern video on how the prototype uses RFID to spot containers in an intermodal yard for crain operation.