Hi Brian, sorry to interject, but I saw an old post of yours. I tried contacting you through your profile but no button to, and your website link isn't working.
In this thread you mentioned you posted a "here is a test" scene. I'm currently modelling an animated (real) tram (tram along a normal road), however I don't know the best way to make it realistic so that the 3 carriages have 2 rubber sections between them which twists. Not only that but I'm not sure the best way to move the actual train (unless I did a bit of a shortcut job and used -align to spline- then delayed each following caraige after the first).
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/19/864749 Wondering if you still had this scene too? Cheers
EDIT;
Think I found one solution:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=493635