Mr. Gale....OK, I understand your explanation of wiring the pickups opposite
each other. But the American Flyer advertisement also states the trains could
follow one another OR back away from each other AFTER an almost cornfield meet.
Sure sounds like some form of command control. I just do not understand how
this could be done with ordinary DC. Unless a ten year old kid took the engine
off the track, rewired it, and put it back on the track. Since that strikes me
as impractical, I am still mystified. Maybe it really is magic electronics?
Maybe we should consult with the hi-tech folks over on the AF List, aka
S-trains? Just a thought...Ed L.
> Well with DC the stuff all runs the same direction if it is wired the same
> and will run opposite if the pickup is wired opposite. So you could have two
> engines running at each other and flip the reversing switch and they run away
> from each other.
> gale
> Ed to Gale, Ed to Gale......OK -- you have whetted my curiousity. Not to
> mention getting my attention. If the engines are receiving DC, how can AF
> advertise that two engines and run on the same track heading toward each
> other and then, just before the crash, stop and reverse. How can that be done
> with plain DC? Maybe there is an insulated gap in the track, but the
> advertisement makes no mention of that. In fact, the ad states "on the same
> track". Call me confused which is almost as bad as being ignorant. Ed L.
> > That rectiformer provided DC to the engines...just real simple no
> magic...and Flyer used to have engines with DC motors and then came the
> universal motors..
> > gale
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