G'Day to you all and a Very Happy and prosperous New Year to all of you :p
Still have not done any wiring, but my parcels did arrive from London and the USA. So I have fitted a couple of sound decoders as well, as started to fix in the Wodonga Station track that was delayed by missing points.
You might like my Future of the Hobby that I posted elsewhere?
I just looked into my magic copper water bowl (It has a great history too being handed down from generation to
generation and once belonged to Uncle Nostodamus )
Actually I see things are going to change in a big way.
I have this thing in front of me, and I don't know what it is called (because today it is unnamed :)
It is a development of the 3D Plastic Printers of the early 21st Century but other technologies have been added to it. in those times Imaging machines were called Flat screen TV's, maybe you still have one?
Actually I see things are going to change in a big way.
I have this thing in front of me, and I don't know what it is called (because today it is unnamed :)
It is a development of the 3D Plastic Printers of the early 21st Century but other technologies have been added to it. in those times Imaging machines were called Flat screen TV's, maybe you still have one?
Some of these machines could have simulated 3D but you needed to wear green and red glass lenses in front of your eyes.
Samsung
actually spent billions developing a 3D system that was brilliant for
its day and glasses were not needed. Alas they were much too late
because a young fellow from Belgrave in Victoria combined his love for
Computer Train Simulations with his Fathers interest in Haleophotography
And invented lifelike and life sized 3D images that could operate at
500 frames a minute and fooled the eye into believing a real steam
engine, or anything else was sitting in his work room.
Simply
put, this changed the face of operating model railways over night! (it
actually split the hobby amongst Museum Quality solid modellers who
spent most of their time created fantastic models and train operators
who just wanted to drive their trains)
Now
you download a Trainz map which uses modern photo realistic
constructions of Railways anywhere in the World. You download any
models you want and following the easy instructions, you build your
empire.
When
you are finished, probably 3 or 4 Hours , you switch the lights down
low and climb into your chair and start the simulation. In a small 3.3
m square bedroom, your brain is tricked into seeing you at the controls
of a full sized engine.
Today
we are riding Heavy Harry out of Spencer Street on the Spirit of
Progress. It is November 1953 and as we pass by PascoeVale platform a
small 8 year old boy is standing on the third rail of the gates with a
stunned look on his face. You see he always ran down the Gaffney Street
hill to wave to George Lynch, or any of the Drivers who ran his
favourite engine up the hill any night. The look of disappointment in
his eyes was there and the Driver waved back to the little kid, hiding
the fact that this old man was excited to have Harry on the front, just
this one time. The kid was me :) and I did learn to love Harry just as
much as I did Matthew or the other blue machines whose job was to get
the SOP up to Albury and back every day.
Anyway
on the way our simulation comes across a glitch. Its a view of
Broadmeadows station from 1963 that has accidentally been included in
our simulation. So it is paused and changed out, showing Broadmeadows in
the 50's..... to be continued
Ha Ha
Rod Young Happy New Year to all of you ;)
