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N-Scale Model Train FPV Project (keep checking back for updates)
Operating a Model Train like my N-Scale California
Southern in FPV mode can be a lot of fun. We use the same type of
wireless gear that I use in RC aircraft but I sit in the dispatcher room
viewing one of the monitors as the dispatcher clears me to move about
the train layout as if I where in the engineers seat. As of now the
layout is being better converted and it will be operated mainly by video
monitors in the FPV mode. This will also greatly reduce the amount of
scenery since now it will only have the scenery completed along the
tracks cutting down on build time. The
layout is a freelance of a real rail road called the California Southern
RR that once went from Barstow Ca, to National City in San Diego. It
had stops in San Bernardino, Riverside, Corona, Lake Elsinore, Perris,
Temecula and Fallbrook to name a few. The Cal. So. RR was
purchased by the Santa Fe and in the early 1980s most of the track was
removed along the route. The layout is what might have been if the train
service through Temescule Canyon was to continue with it's sister
company the Santa Fe (BNSF). The layout is operated with DCC (Digital
Command Control) which allows the operator to control one locomotive at
a time or group a few together as a consist. Power is constant through
the tracks and a signal is sent through the rail with a code that is
recognized by the locomotive. Each loco has a decoder located inside
that reads the commands. This is now the most popular way to run model
trains as now you no longer have to run hundreds of feet of wiring to
power different track blocks flipping switches to power the trains.
N-Scale FPV video: CalSoRR
California So. Amtrak #101 passing at Dawson Canyon depot .  BNSF Fast freight at American Truss Co. RR crossing. Lake Elsinore
 Local freight at Bundy Canyon RR Xing
 BNSF Freight Train 760 leaving Wildomar Yard. Photo Crash9  BNSF tanker train 891 heading through Norco. photo Crash9
 BNSF Intermodel entering Wildomar Yard
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