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- From: ed@stauff.UUCP (Edward L. Stauff)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
- Subject: Re: Video and Model Railroad?
- Message-ID: <B6ZJwB1w164w@stauff.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 12:08:46 EST
- References: <103319@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Organization: Minstrelsy & Lutherie
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- gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) writes:
-
- > I was in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI this past week and
- > there was quite an extravagent model railroad layout in the lobby.
- > The feature catching everyone's attention was that one of the
- > locomotives had a video camera in it, and there were monitors on
- > all four sides of the table showing the view as the train chugged about.
- > The camera certainly didn't show in the train, and you had to look
- > very carefully at the oncoming front of the train to see that there was
- > a small hole where the camera peeked out.
- >
- > Has anyone ever seen this done, or done it? What does it take to get
- > a small B/W video camera into a locomotive, and get the signal back to
- > a monitor?
-
- Lionel has (or had) a commercial product consisting of, if memory serves,
- two locomotives: one powered, the other a dummy containing the CCD camera
- and electronics. Transmission of the video signal was, I believe, over
- the rails. I think this was an O gauge thing, and I sure it's been done
- in HO as well. Given the likely size of the camera and electronics, I'd
- bet the same could be done in N scale, at least theoretically, though I've
- never heard of it being done.
-
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