Brain waves can power an electric train

That's an interesting concept ogaugeguy.

Unfortunatley, my brain wave output is pure flatline DC.

TJ

MAYBE a 'Z' gauge, downhill!

Oh Mercy.  I have to leave that one alone.

 

Many Thanks,

 

Billy C 

I think they may be onto something. Late at night, waiting for a subway to arrive, I often use a lot of brain power hoping and hoping that my train will show up next. Sure enough, sooner or later a train arrives! I never made the connection until now. Weird.

 

But I think that there may be a polarity factor. The people on the opposite platform are also wishing that THEIR train will come in first. If there are more people over there, will their train arrive first?  Clearly, we need more research.

Nah, I prefer the traditional hands-on approach to model railroading.

I cannot help but think of the arcade game scene from Back to the Future: Part II--which, interestingly, is set in this year!

If that's true why in hell isn't mine running?

 

Could it be corrupted trackage after 5 months in a box in the garage?

Would we need bolts on our neck like Frankenstein?  which would be the positive and the common?  This could be wired right into DCS or Legacy !!

Must be true, was on a bottle cap...

 

Jerry

Gives me a headache just to think about it. 

As I recall in earlier days MTH had been said to be thinking of mind control systems for running electric trains.

 

Bob C.

I have a hard enough time just trying to move the throttle lever of the transform with my thoughts! Don't think I could concentrate hard enough to move the train! 

No, no, no!  It would be so much work to make that much brain wave power.  I'd rather use the ZW-L and apply the brainwaves to daydreaming!!

I thought for sure this was a continuation of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" thread. 

This is depressing because from my experience this means that my TIU has more brain power than me. Perhaps that is why it toys with me from time to time. If this is all the Mind Power that I have, I'll never win that Leg Lamp.

 

Conductor Earl  

And now it's on the internet.

I figured with a powerful brain such as mine this should be easy.  Best to start with my smallest locomotive just in case, I thought as I railed my Lionel Docksider.  With brow furrowed in concentration I willed the engine to move, and sure enough - it toppled slowly to the side and landed next to the track.  Success!

 

Pete

General estimates of electrical potential in your brain are from 5 - 12 watts but most of that is used to power our body and brain itself.

I can't remember what the movie was called, only that it was about people with telepathic abilities, but there was a scene in which a scientist (I think) was demonstrating this by having a person run an MPC steamer on a loop of track using mind power.  I seem to remember the train flying off the track in a curve...

I get that there is energy, power, potential. I can also say I power my trains with the nuclear reactions on the sun. I don't have to add that I have solar panels.

So, it's amusing, and I'd hoped my responses are along the same track or power line. I sincerely wasn't trying to be mean. I'm clearly not using all my brains potential energy. I'm not gonna share the energy either.