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Several years ago I bought a Lionel Rail Scope 0-4-0T locomotive (with a black & white camera in the loco). I never got it to work very well and wrote it off as not suitable for a large layout.
At the last Diamondhead I bought another one that was pretty much new in box (unused). I thought that between the two of them I could get at least one working.
I finally gave up and took the camera out of both locos but went ahead and added a headlight and smoke unit to both locos so they are worth their cost in what I can do with them elsewhere on the layouts. For one thing they do a nice job of pushing and pulling a track cleaning car around the layout.
That leaves me with two Lionel cameras and receivers that I would like to put to some use such as transmitting images to assist in parking trains on remote sidings.
Does anyone have any positive experiences with the Lionel Rail Scope camera systems and if so can you suggest what I might need to do to use them in a fixed position? My thought is to use a remote (X-10) receiver with an ac adapter to power and to turn the individual Lionel cameras on and off but first I need to find a way to get them to work or to confirm that they are both broken.
Any ideas or suggestions? So far I've been unable to get anything on a TV connected to the Lionel receivers.
Thanks,
Jerry
At the last Diamondhead I bought another one that was pretty much new in box (unused). I thought that between the two of them I could get at least one working.
I finally gave up and took the camera out of both locos but went ahead and added a headlight and smoke unit to both locos so they are worth their cost in what I can do with them elsewhere on the layouts. For one thing they do a nice job of pushing and pulling a track cleaning car around the layout.
That leaves me with two Lionel cameras and receivers that I would like to put to some use such as transmitting images to assist in parking trains on remote sidings.
Does anyone have any positive experiences with the Lionel Rail Scope camera systems and if so can you suggest what I might need to do to use them in a fixed position? My thought is to use a remote (X-10) receiver with an ac adapter to power and to turn the individual Lionel cameras on and off but first I need to find a way to get them to work or to confirm that they are both broken.
Any ideas or suggestions? So far I've been unable to get anything on a TV connected to the Lionel receivers.
Thanks,
Jerry