TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

track, but also to turn the locomotive automatically into a specific direction (e.g. heading
to the right when leaving the bridge). TrainController 7 Silver, however, now
provides slightly different operations to move the bridge to a certain track in a way, that
locomotives leave the bridge in forward or backward direction. With the new operations
the same goals can be accomplished as before, but the means are slightly different and
easier to understand. The operations in existing layout files, which turned a locomotive
to a specific direction, are converted accordingly. That means: after conversion to the
format of TrainController 7 Silver these operations will still move the bridge to the
same tracks as before, but they won’t care about the resulting direction of the locomotive.
This must be adjusted manually, if necessary.
The turn boundary, a difficult to understand feature of TrainController 5, was
needed in previous versions to be able to turn a locomotive to a certain direction (e.g.
heading to the right when leaving the bridge) during automatic operation. The turn
boundary became obsolete in TrainController 7 Silver and is no longer available.
In TrainController 5 it was possible to assign feedback indicators to the bridge and
the tracks of each turntable or transfer table. This is still supported for existing turntables
and transfer tables created in TrainController 5. It is no longer possible,
however, to assign feedback indicators to turntables or transfer tables newly created in
TrainController 7 Silver. Existing assignments, however, can still be edited via the
Turntable dialog for the time being.
Switchboards and Block Diagrams
One of the most important differences between TrainController 7 Gold and other
versions of TrainController is the capability to work with more than one calculated
block diagram. Due to the varied advantages of calculated block diagrams and because
custom block diagrams are only needed in very rare situations it is strongly recommended
to turn each existing not calculated main block diagram of other versions into
one or more calculated block diagrams.
This is done in the following way:
• If you turned off the automatic calculation of the block diagram in the other version
of TrainController and created additional switchboards which associations to
blocks in the main block diagram, then create a calculated block diagram for each
switchboard.
• All blocks, that are associated with such switchboard will be automatically moved to
the newly created block diagram. Routes, that connected these blocks in the former
main block diagram will be automatically moved, too.
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