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It still needs to be quite small, as there are realistically proportioned tunnels, railroad station halls, and trackside buildings a large camera will bump into.

I wind up with about 20mm vertically and 30mm horizontally to work with when you count the space used by the flatbed.




Sounds like it might be a good product for you or someone to come out with :-) A 10MP N-scale camera car.

What about a 2MP ESP8266-based Arducam? Lay it flat, use a tiny mirror to get the image ahead. Power it by the rails. Only slightly larger than a standard N-scale boxcar. http://www.arducam.com/world-smallest-esp8266-wifi-camera/

I'm an old model RRer myself. Hobby was just too expensive though.




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