I think we had this conversation before but there is no problem to solve. It's a play value addition. I use mine in various ways to enhance my personal enjoyment. Of course your mileage may vary.
And they operate accessories with additional hardware so I can see your point on cost. Of course with anything in this day and age it's quite possible they'll be able to do everything you want it to do eventually.
Originally Posted by AlanRail:
The novelty seems to have worn out for me.
I have two that I have yet to install, because I still need to see how they solve a problem.
If there was a way to install sensors to the sides of the track ( with the sensor slipped between the ties) and these were inexpensive enough so that I could have say 30 of them placed around the layout to control a wide variety of accessories, signals and crossing gates as well as locate the engines (and other cars) anywhere on the layout displayed on an iPad; I would buy thirty(30) in a minute!
