TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

It is very easy to adjust the polarity of each block in TrainController. Perform the
following steps:
• Put a train on the track inside of the block.
• Make sure that the train is heading to the right or bottom, respectively.
• Assign the train to the block in the Visual Dispatcher.
• Make sure, that the train image in the block symbol of the Visual Dispatcher is also
heading to the right or bottom, respectively.
• Select the train in the Train Window.
• Drag the speed slider in the Train Window to the right.
• If the actual train on the layout is now moving to the right or bottom, respectively,
then the polarity of the block is correctly adjusted. Otherwise open the properties of
the block and change the polarity of the block by toggling the Reverse Polarity option.
Look at the following example:
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Diagram 187: Block Diagram of a Circular Layout
It can be assumed that the physical wiring of the layout displayed above is done in a
way that the track power will not change its polarity when a train cycles around the
loop. In other words: the physical polarity of all blocks in the above diagram can be assumed
to be identical.
The situation in TrainController is different. TrainController does not want to
rely on the fact, that the layout has been wired in a certain way. Additionally, the struc-