TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

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TrainController, you are able to create appropriate contact indicators to monitor
these feedback signals. By assigning appropriate operations to these contact indicators,
the accessories on your model railroad can be operated as desired.
Please note, that a push button or switch on your external control panel is associated
with a contact indicator in TrainController.
To operate a turnout with two buttons in an external control panel perform the following
steps:
• Create a turnout symbol in your switchboard.
• Connect the real push buttons in your external control panel with two input contacts
of a feedback decoder of your digital system.
• Create two contact indicators and assign the addresses of the two input contacts to
them.
• Assign the first state of the turnout symbol to the operations of the first contact indicator
and the second state of the turnout symbol to the operations of the second
contact indicator.
A very useful application is the operation of routes. Without using a computer, the installation
of expensive equipment would be necessary to operate routes with an external
control panel. The option to assign contact indicators as start and destination keys to
routes (see section 14.8, “Extended Route”) is very useful as well.
To operate a route with start and destination keys in an external control panel perform
the following steps:
• Create a route symbol in your switchboard.
• Connect the real push buttons in your external control panel with two input contacts
of a feedback decoder of your digital system.
• Create two contact indicators and assign the addresses of the two input contacts to
them.
• Assign the contact indicators as start and destination keys to the route symbol.
14.10 Decommissioning of Objects
Blocks, routes, schedules, trains, turnouts and other objects can be decommissioned in
TrainController Gold at any time during operation. Decommissioned objects are
excluded from operation. Decommissioned schedules, for example, cannot be started;
decommissioned routes cannot be activated; decommissioned trains cannot be driven. A
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