Talk:Tech Model Railroad Club

False sentence
The sentence "This allows visitors to run any engine they want without anything looking out of place." is false. If somebody were to run a locomotive from the 1800s or 2008, it would absolutely look out of place to somebody who knew their railroad history. Esahr (talk) 07:35, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Changed to "This allows visitors to run a wide variety of model rolling stock without looking too anachronistic." It only took a decade. 8.19.241.10 (talk) 21:47, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Possibles adds
The Green Building lights were used for displays, though not for Tetris, shortly after it opened. This article, right now, has only a tiny fraction of what it could have (such as the 24 hour subway run in New York). Collect (talk) 06:02, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

What?
Anyone know what this means:

The system were donated by the Western Electric College Gift Plan, from the phone company. The TMRC engineers could specify techniques by using of phone equipment, run and control a train.

I'm not what 'the system' is or who 'the phone company' is. And that second sentence??? Could someone translate and edit? 60.240.207.146 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 03:21, 15 November 2008 (UTC).

I have tried to rephrase and correct some of the grammatical mistakes and confusions on this page, but it could do with a full rewrite. m3tainfo (talk) 07:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Aha! The "system" was the means by which the trains were controlled using telephones. Telephone stepping switches were wired to allow many things to be done from any one position around the layout. You could start and stop the display clock, set its speed, or cause it to say "FOO" by dialing a specific number. You could set switches from any phone, or phone another person on the layout. And one could run a "j train" by using plugs to create an imaginary train running around the layout. Collect (talk) 03:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The article claims that the paragraph mentioning j trains needs further explanation. This is not true. Anyone encountering the idea of the j train in the context of TMRC or MIT Course VI should intuitively understand what is meant. Anyone not understanding j as imaginary is beyond hope or perhaps needs to be rotated by π/2. Snezzy (talk) 12:30, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Weasel Words
...who compiled the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language and whom some say coined "Information wants to be free". Kevinzana (talk) 13:08, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

404
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at tmrc.mit.edu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoperry (talk • contribs) 22:25, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Just checked, and the website is up. It was probably down for maintenance or updates.  Reify-tech (talk) 04:41, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

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HO vs H0 - please be consistent
There are references to both HO and H0 on the page. While either is 'correct' - it is more correct to choose one on a page, and stick with it. Can someone who is a member of the TMRC choose which one to use, and stick with it? Thanks! Jpbjoel (talk) 21:33, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 * HO is correct for this US context. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:44, 28 March 2024 (UTC)