TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

Following these guidelines the block structure of the sample layout looks as follows:
Diagram 92: Block structure of the sample layout
Each blue track section represents a separate block. The blocks on the main line or the
branch line between “Southtown” and “Northville” can be subdivided further into more
blocks if each of these blocks is long enough to store the longest train. This is useful if
you want more than one train to travel on these tracks at the same time.
Block Diagrams
Like a human operator must know the overall structure of the model railroad layout the
visual dispatcher needs to know this, too. This structure is represented by one or more
diagrams, that contain blocks and routes between blocks. These diagrams also display
the various itineraries of your trains. Such diagrams are called block diagrams of the
layout. They describe the track and block layout of your entire model railroad in rough
outline.
Block diagrams are displayed in separate windows, the dispatcher windows.
Normally each switchboard, that you create for your layout and that contains blocks,
corresponds to a block diagram. These block diagrams are created automatically by
TrainController by using the track layout drawn in the switchboard and the information
about the blocks contained therein. To enable TrainController to create (
“calculate”) a block diagram for a switchboard, it is necessary to specify the positions
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