Actually with small Lipo batteries and Bluetooth type technology, this could possibly be done. Functioning Engine service facilities that refuel (Recharge) Engines. And since some lipo's in certain instances can catch fire, all your GE Diesels are prototypically correct! :monkey:
Dibs for the BN Techno Toasters!!! NO even better for the GEVO they tried on Crawford Hill and fried all the batteries along the walkways!!!
Speaking of outrageous wishlist, part of my wishlist, to build a layout in an actual railroad car, will be coming true within the next few years. I am planning on buying a few old pieces of passenger equipment and a caboose. The caboose will house a new layout and will double as an office. I do plan on integrating the Unreliable and Recycled Railroad into the new layout. Now that's an Outrageous partially doable wish hehe Cheers! Adam
I have thought of that, but it would be hard to find a boxcar with a decent interior, they can be rough inside!!! The caboose would be neat too, remodeling of the interior wold be hard but nice!
Well I have a connection at CN ... where I can get rare cabooses and cars dirt cheap in good shape. I am actually going next week to see them. Apparently at this place, one of the oldest F7s in Canada is parked there wasting away. This specific locomotive is for sale on Ozark Mouintain Railcar Services. Now wouldn't that be great an F7 inthe front hmmm loll. Now that is dreaming considering the price they are asking for it lol Cheers! Adam
If only to be rich.......... I would want a BN C30-7! with a caboose. Of course a SW12 would do!!!:tb-cool: restore the mentioned to factory new condition to boot! NOW THAT'S DREAMIN! :tb-frown:
There was a gay who parked a small Dutch switcher in his front yard. The village council didn't like it and wanted it to be removed. Sometimes it feels as if you can't do anything here....... I would like to have a caboose in my garden. They are not that expensive. But the shipping costs....... And for modelrailroading: engines that drive on fuel cells (so byebye dirty track problems), New Haven catenary, some NH electric motors, Peco American track code 55.
Cool idea about the fuel cells! If using cat wires one could make a generating station like on the Milwaukee! I have a tape and man those things starting was neat to be able to see and hear,, I think it was a Charles Smiley tape!!!
Okay, I came up with another one - Automated tracklaying. What if our MoW equipment could work just like the real thing with spikers, despikers, tampers, rail trains, etc. You get a couple of these automatic systems put together and then rent them out to anyone building a layout who wants to use them and then all they have to do is lay the roadbed and then the automated equipment moves in following the track plan in the computer and locating themselves via local GPS and the roadbed centreline. All you'd have to do is cut in the switches.
That's a great idea. Then I wouldn't feel as guilty about spending time on TB instead of getting to work on my layout. How about a ballast spreader too?
Something that would find all the small (flicking) parts that my husband dropped without my hitting my head under the layout. He has to many nails on the underside and I might end up with stitches.
Did I mention I want... ...Silverliners- geesh- they're that close with RDCs!!! I guess they only had about a billion in the northeast USA. What with all the cantenary and such. Maybe KATO will support the GG-1 release with some "local" service (i.e. Silverliners) and provide the connection from the NE Corridor to the suburbs for those haggard N Scale passengers just waiting for a call for their station- "WISSAHICKON, next stop. Next stop Wissahickon~~~~. Watch your step"!
All in plastic: N&W Class A 2-6-6-4 N&W Y6b 2-8-8-2 with new tooling (yes I have a Rivarossi version too) N&W H2a hopper A N scale detail maker that will make air horns for diesels similar to what is offered by Details West in HO (these could be brass though) (I'm beginning to think I'll never see these in my lifetime though) - Mark
My thought was the whole MoW gang from the tie laying to the regulating. With as advanced as all scales of model railroading are getting, I don't see why at some point we shouldn't be able to actually run a full MoW gang over the track to clean, repair, and maintain the trackwork just like in the real world. Imagine being able to simulate a wavy trackage just by letting the track settle like the real thing with very little regulating and re-work. :tb-biggrin: Then at least when you had derailments due to the rail rolling over you could blame it on poor track maintenance instead of on your own inability to lay the rail right in the first place. :tb-tongue: