Running Trains: Control, Switches, Cab Rides
Building the layout is half of it. The other half is running it: setting speeds, throwing switches, keeping two trains out of each other’s way, and riding along to see it all from rail height.
Running trains · 6 min read
Take a Cab Ride on Your Own Layout
Ride the front of any train, a car, a carousel horse or a ferris gondola in Traluno, record the clip, take clean screenshots and save camera views.
Running trains · 8 min read
Model Train Control Panel: Trains and Switches
How to drive each train and throw each switch from Traluno's Control windows, why a switch under a train waits, and how hold differs from emergency stop.
Running trains · 6 min read
A Model Train Turntable and Its Roundhouse
What turntables and roundhouses were for, and how Traluno's pair works: a turning bridge with its own engine, curved approach roads, and where to put them.
Running trains · 7 min read
A Desk, Not a Menu
Traluno's model railway control desk is levers, toggles and buttons on the front of the table, worked with the mouse. What it cost, and what it taught.
Running trains · 7 min read
Riding in the Cab: Two Cameras, One Renderer
How Traluno draws its train cab view: a second camera in the same three.js renderer, a scissored viewport, recording inside the frame, a seat for every ride.