MRH is getting the exclusive on this new product

MRH is getting the exclusive on this major new hobby innovation! Watch for the announcement tomorrow ....

It would not be this right

It would not be this right ?

http://www.fairwayparkmodels.com/

http://www.pwrs.ca/client_services/reservations/product_profile.php?ProductID=213983

MagnaLock Air Lines

I saw a video for those, chased them around eBay but could find nothing further.  I think they would be very realistic and quite an improvement in detailing. 

Wonder if this is the big surprise.  11:39 PM, guess I don't have long to wait.

major new hobby innovation!

I hardly think locking air lines would qualify as " major new hobby innovation!".

My guess is DCC uncouplers...Cheap and easy. Thats my hope anyway (fingers crossed ).

Rob Teed

DCC uncouplers already in a printed mag.

Already seen a Kadee advertisement for DCC operated couplers in G scale. Has to be something else.

Den

It's tomorrow...lol

It's tomorrow...lol

Can anyone guess what it is?

Oh, the suspense ...

It's a new boxcar marked....................

..........DANICA PATRICK WINS DAYTONA 500!

Peter

What I wish it was

Bachmann is going to produce S scale!

Hmmmm.

If it turns out to be a Segway, I'll be ever so disappointed.

George

Hummmmm...

A wireless miniature locomotive cab to control all your trains: DC, DCC, or any other control system. All in one handheld unit. 

Just a little over 2 hours now ...

yes!

new inovation

It is the magnetic air hoses.  I know for a fact. Received E mail telling me with video.  Funny to watch the video. You see a hand with a wooden stick uncouple the cars then the cars separate and with the DCC sound you see the air hoses unlock and hear the air blow out.  I'm just wondering what happens when you pull over a magnet? 

New Inovation

Jim Miller wrote:

You'll need to get another engine or two to help pull the car off the magnet.

Bernd

Christmas!

You guys are as bad as kids the night before. LOL  

Danny

Is this an older and published hobby idea?

Quote from another forum

Well, you have us all in suspence !!!

Nuff said

It's here ...

Here it is ...

http://mrhmag.com/node/12302

Before you tell me it's old news ...

Before you tell me it's old news, then let me say the new news is it's now coming to market as a widely available product for all scales. HO, N, and others.

It may have been kicking around the forums as a novelty topic for a few years, but now it's a mass market product anybody can get, eventually for any scale - and that, my friends, is a BIG deal.

Magnets? What magnets?

Since you would have to get rid of the trip pins to be able to use these, there's no point in having magnets once they are installed.  That's the biggest draw back I see to these.  Personally, I would prefer to dispense with magnetic uncoupling anyway, but sometimes that's not an option.  There's always choices to be made, unfortunately.

Most modelers into serious operation don't use magnets

Most modelers into serious operation don't use uncoupling magnets. The prototype uncouples wherever they need to and so do the modelers who like prototype ops.

With these new air hoses coming to mass market status, it will be easy to put these on all your equipment. I can see walking the train before pulling out now has a real purpose. Make sure all the air hoses are coupled ...

Prior art is not patentable

If the "big deal" is based on claiming a patent on published prior art, and trying to use it to shut out competition that way, then its bad for the hobby.  Don't you rememberer what JMRI just went through, and the NMRA fighting the recent attempts to retroactively patent DCC/Sound.

It takes big bucks to undo a patent, even if it's wrong.

Assume the best

Andy, don't always assume the worst.

From what we know, PWRS purchased the rights to the product from the inventor and they're working together with them on a patent.