So you'd like to: Watch the same two trains go by the same spot for five minutes

[Mudkip Orange]

Most interesting video ever

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrk4HQ2xV0

[Bernard]

Very interesting! If it wasn't for the cars in the background and some light density shifts, you would think you were watching someone's model RR oval.

[Mudkip Orange]

Very interesting! If it wasn't for the cars in the background and some light density shifts, you would think you were watching someone's model RR oval.

 

Part 3 in a new series, "Railroads You Can Model," available from Mud Frog Productions.

[westfalen]

I still watched the whole video so I need a life as much as the guy who took it.

 

This may be why model railroading is so popular in Japan, it's so easy to simulate the prototype, a double track oval that disappears into a tunnel and a couple of trains.

[Mudkip Orange]

I still watched the whole video so I need a life as much as the guy who took it.

 

This may be why model railroading is so popular in Japan, it's so easy to simulate the prototype, a double track oval that disappears into a tunnel and a couple of trains.

 

I was thinking, since there's only two trains in that video, and since they *always* alternate, you could actually do this layout as a dogbone.

 

With the doubletrack oval you need four trains total, two each of the express and the local. With the dogbone you only need one of each.