By Ed Driscoll, PJ Media; October 30, 2019
“There’s something about a train that’s magic,” the late Richie Havens famously sang in his 1980s-era Amtrak commercials. While I don’t know about the “magic” part, there’s definitely something that’s hardwired in kids that makes them fascinated by trains. Many of us can recall having Lionel or HO scale trains around the Christmas tree as kids, and plenty of kids – and adults – have built freestanding permanent layouts.
Intelino is a new endeavor, by Innokind, a California start-up, to bring kids’ love of trains into the 21st century and add some extra magic. It’s also a sly way to teach them the basics of computer programming. But more about that later.