TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

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Diagram 100: Specifying the digital connection and the train ID of an engine
In this example the train ID 27 is assigned to the steam engine with the digital address
2345. Of course digital address and transponder number do not have to be identical. Especially
in the case of multiple units or if the transponder is mounted on a car rather
than an engine it is very useful, that decoder addresses and transponder numbers are
treated independently.
For trains in TrainController Silver (see section 11.1, “Trains”) an additional option,
Use ID of Engines, is provided. If this option is set then the train is not associated
with an own train ID. Instead the IDs of the engines, that have been assigned to this
train, are used. If the train is running and the ID of one of its engines is detected then
this ID is mapped to the running train.
The screen displayed above might slightly change its appearance dependent on the actual
capabilities of the connected train detection system. For some train detection systems
you will not explicitly have to assign a train ID, instead there is a kind of autocapture
mechanism, with which train Ids can be automatically read from a passing train.