The Randall Museum in San Francisco hosts a large HO-scale model model railroad. Created by the Golden Gate Model Railroad Club starting in 1961, the layout was donated to the Museum in 2015. Since then I have started automatizing trains running on the layout. I am also the model railroad maintainer. This blog describes various updates on the Randall project and I maintain a separate blog for all my electronics not directly related to Randall.
2023-04-01 - An Update on Junior Engineer Day
Category RandallWe’re happy to announce that today, and today only, we’ll be running a fully staffed Junior Engineer Day at the Randall Museum Model Railroad.
To do so, we have acquired the latest most realistic locomotive controller from Walthers, the RailDriver Desktop Cab Controller.
However this controller requires a Windows XP computer. Since we don’t have that (our automation is all Linux-based for 24/7 maximum reliability), we need patrons to provide their own genuine CD-ROM of Windows XP with their own activation code for us to load it on our computers before they can run.