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Paul Schmidt:
On Saturday, I sent the folks at RailPro an e-mail asking them to someday produce a locomotive module for N scale.

Not only was I delighted by their fast reply, what they said delighted me too.


--- Quote ---Hi Paul,

We made a note that you are interested in RailPro for N scale.  We do plan to work on an N scale loco module at some point. We do believe the technology exists today to do it.  However, it will be a significant redesign compared to our HO size module.  Since we can use our HO technology as in larger than HO scale modules our current plan is to build them first.  They should not take long to develop. Then work on an N scale one.  We like to hear comments from fellow model railroaders.  Our customers comments do affect the products that we build.  We added your name to our email list so you can be aware when we release new products.
--- End quote ---

So, it's more a matter of "when" than "if". Looks as if I need to get a RailPro starter set in preparation for the day. :D

KPack:
That's great news!  I figured they would focus on large scale first as the hardware is pretty much the same. Hopefully N-scale is not too far behind!

-Kevin

Paul Schmidt:
It won't be a long wait, I hope, Kevin, perhaps just a couple years. But it will be worth it.

Tophat3:
Rolling up on 5 years now. Gotta feeling it's not going to happen.

KPack:
I tend to agree, mostly because I don't know how well the components can be sized down.  As time goes on though the necessary components will likely shrink. 

Ring does not do things terribly quickly.  Even things like new sounds, software updates, etc take a while.  If the components can be shrunk to fit N-scale then we'll see those modules, eventually.

What I'd like to see is someone take a Railpro module and stuff it in an N-scale boxcar or dummy locomotive.  Just to test proof-of-concept.

-Kevin

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