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Hello all ... you may have thought train control was a modern day invention ..mais non ...Karl Bub  introduced it's dual train operation ...where two trains run in opposite directions , stopping and starting to share the same track ...sans electricity ..windup ..1905 all this for $5.00 as advertised in Playthings magazine.   Please see link for action packed video of two trains playing chicken .

Note on bottom of engine there is a guide to throw the stop lever for the opposite track ...it works perfectly ...( most of the time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzqLZYZnJbw

Cheers Carey



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Karl Bub was always looking at innovative control early on with clockwork ... at 4:22 of the following video you can see a clockwork turntable that was activated by a lever off the train to 180 the loco and send it back into a loop to repeat for as long as the motor wind held up .

Here is one of the locos from my collection




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@Fatman posted:

Karl Bub was always looking at innovative control early on with clockwork ... at 4:22 of the following video you can see a clockwork turntable that was activated by a lever off the train to 180 the loco and send it back into a loop to repeat for as long as the motor wind held up .

Here is one of the locos from my collection




Wonderful!!!   

Reminds me of the Toonerville Trolley turntables made by Dick Mayer.

Bob Nelson

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