speed meters for model railroad

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Has any one seen or have knoledge of any one making speed meters,or if any one has published an artical on building such an item. I have been volenteered to reserch this possibility for our club layout. Any help is welcome if you know were to get this imformation please send me an e-mail at this address- bowbendersarchery@sbcglobal.net thank you for any help in this matter,looking forward to meeting other modlers. Patrick

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Try TrainSpeed by TDP and associates inc. http://www.trainspeed.com/index.htm Cheers Tim

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Patrick,

First off, [#welcome] to the forum! Good to have you aboard! [:)]

There was a forum thread a couple of weeks ago on the very TDP product mentioned above:

http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/945078/ShowPost.aspx

Tom

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I still like this method that I found:

http://www.geocities.com/OzDCC/speedo.htm

Altho I would recommend doing some modifications. I plan on making one of these in the future, but taking the Speedometer apart and molding it into the top of a box car or something.

There is also an Odometer version which linked to the Speedometer above:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rpaisley4/Odometer.html