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The mission of TrainElectronics.com is to develop microcontroller based electronic devices for the model railroad community and to educate model railroaders so that they can build and modify their own electronic controls.

Most of the products and projects explored here are based on the PICAXE or PIC microcontrollers and are programmed in BASIC.
 

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"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "
Pablo Picasso

 

This spot on the TrainElectronics.com Home Page is used to highlight our latest project.

Mr. Rogers Trolley

The Pittsburgh Garden Railway Society built a large scale train layout for Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital in the 1990's.  We have maintained it and seen it enjoyed by untold numbers of patients and visitors to the hospital.

In May of 2009 a new Children's Hospital will open.  We have been asked to design and build a new layout that will be larger and, we hope, better than the original.

One of the tracks on the layout will be a point to point, something that is typically used with a trolley.  Since Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was developed and filmed at WQED in Pittsburgh it made sense to use the trolley from Mr. Rogers in the layout.

Unfortunately no one markets a G-Scale Mr. Rogers trolley so I decided to build one from scratch.

revised 1-4-09