How fun would this be? From ComputerWorld:
BNSF has started to deploy Wi-Fi wireless LAN systems extensively in rail yards to allow crews to remotely control engines used to make up trains. These Wi-Fi systems are connected to a control panel that mimics the control panel of a diesel locomotive — “You can even blow the horn,” Campbell said — and are both more efficient and less hazardous than manned locomotives.
BNSF (Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co.) is also considering getting into the celular communications busines; they already have a huge private microwave network covering its 14,000 miles of right-of-way, and by adding celular antennas & gear to their existing towers, they can provide cel phone service to their trains and to anybody else within range of any of those towers in remote areas.
This would be awesome; unfortunately, my basement hobby room isn't big enough.
