In this segment, Chris Chianelli visits the ultimate digital train set -- one of the largest HO-scale train layouts in the world (figure A).
Ultimate Digital Train Set
- This HO train set is digitally operated, and takes up about 2000 square feet. It incorporates nearly a half mile of HO track. It was built and is operated by the Model Railroad Club Inc., in Union, New Jersey -- a town that is given reference in one of the miniature buildings contained in the set (figure B).
- Multiple locomotives operate simultaneously and in carefully orchestrated unison, and are controlled by DCC technology (figure C).
- Painstaking detail work gives each vignette included in this elaborate set the kind of realism one might expect in a Norman Rockwell scene (figure D).
- Classic and lifelike elements such as churches, cemeteries and even dilapidated buildings (figure E) provide the kind of unexpected details that make this set so strikingly real.
- The digital system allows the set-up to operate up to 120 trains at one time.
- The electronic and digital controls that allow this elaborate setup to operate are all concealed beneath the floor of the structure (figure F). The layout is actually raised above the building's floor, allowing stand-up access to the controls underneath.
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