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Monday, January 12, 2009

Digital Model Railroading

Luuuuuuuuuunch. Recently I keep seeing different people washing their face, hair and/or feet in this fountain. Hmmmmmm.

After work I took the tram down to a model railroad shop called Orient Express.

Ugly English trains.

Pretty non-English/American/Australian train.

I bought this set from Roco. It's a DIGITAL start set. It's all about the DIGITAL bit. I will use this to further investigate how that stuff works so that I can use it to build my coffee-train table.

I waited outside for Nicole to pick me up and was visited by a mosquito twice.

At home we heard on the news that America is trying even harder to know more about people visiting their country now. You have to fill in a form online as well now.

They are very clever because on their form they ask if you are a terrorist. And if you check 'yes', they will not allow you to enter their country. That way, the American people can feel safe and secure and sleep well at night.

Sweet dreams, America.

At home I opened the box to see what the treasure contained exactly. It holds one locomotive, four carriages, a lot of track and of course the digital equipment.

Why digital?
Digital model railroad control allows you to have multiple trains driving on your track at the same time with different speeds. Also you can let them breaks and drive off in a natural way. And also you can make the lights stay on when they are not moving. There are a lot more advantages that are too complicated to explain on this simple blog :-)

This is my first decoder equipped, digital locomotive.