TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

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After the selection of the current engine, or train, in the train window, you are able to control the train and monitor its operations with the control instruments. To operate a certain engine on your layout, create a Train Window and specify the digital address of the engine. You do not have to bother with all other options until you want to add more realism to the operation of your trains. The Visual Dispatcher The Visual Dispatcher is a component that makes large scale railroad operations manageable by one person, matching operations found on the largest club layouts. Engines and trains can be operated manually or automatically. 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 a diagram that contains blocks and routes and the track connections between them. This diagram is called main block diagram of the layout. The main block diagram describes the track layout of your entire model railroad in rough outline. The Visual Dispatcher manages traffic flow using a blocking system. Blocking ensures that trains do not collide and supports the tracking of train positions. For this purpose, the railroad layout is divided into virtual, logical blocks. That means, you define blocks at locations where traffic control will take place (e.g. scheduled stops in a station). Usually each track in a station or hidden yard, each siding and appropriate sections of the connections between two yards will form a block. Dividing the layout into logical blocks does not necessarily imply, that your blocks must be electrically insulated. TrainController does not require such electrical insulation. Whether your blocks must be insulated or not depends solely on the hardware used. Blocks and connecting routes are arranged graphically in the main block diagram to specify on which paths trains will travel. Schedules describe train movements, i.e. how trains travel. This includes start and destination blocks, scheduled waits, speed limits, etc. AutoTrain, an outstanding feature of TrainController, allows you to start trains automatically without the need to define a schedule before or to create new schedules while playing with your trains – programming while playing! 85
Trains can run under full manual control, in which case the human operator will be responsible for obeying the block signals set by the Dispatcher; or under full control of the computer; or even with an intermediate level of automation. For shunting special types of schedules are provided. Schedules and timetables can be arranged with a broad range of flexibility. Since a timetable can be created for each day of the year, up to 365 timetables can be used. Randomizer functions increase the diversity of your model railroad traffic. 86
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RAILROAD & CO. ® TrainController
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Contact: Freiwald Software Kreuzber
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4 Schedule ........................
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6 5.8 Arranging Indicators and Mark
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13 The Clock ......................
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10 Passing trains from automatic to
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51. A optional schedule rule causes
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Part I Quick Start B 23
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Diagram 1: TrainController Setup Sc
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Diagram 3: Setup Digital Systems di
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Diagram 5: Train Window If you want
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Diagram 8: Entering a Name You may
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Typical examples of blocks are •
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of the blocks in the track diagram
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For specific purposes it is also po
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gine orientation accordingly even i
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148 5.5 Train Detection and Train T
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150 Diagram 100: Specifying the dig
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B 152 Registration of unknown Train
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B 154 5.6 Blocks and Indicators For
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train will stop inside the block fo
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Diagram 106 shows a block equipped
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Diagram 109 has been derived from D
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! 172 How Block Signals Work The fo
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B 174 5.11 Schedules Schedule Diagr
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form a random selection. In the sam
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indicated as occupied when the trai
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• In cases, where a specific bloc
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188 Diagram 120: Specifications of
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B 190 Driving Mode Explanation Trai
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X 194 5.14 Schedule Sequences With
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• The look ahead to select an opt
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dow, when edit mode is turned off.
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stop indicator to simulate what hap
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B 206 7 The Inspector The Inspector
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! It is also possible, to copy the
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B 210 10 A Sample Layout General Th
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212 Diagram 129: Switchboard Southt
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214 Step 3: Creating Blocks At firs
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Indicators are created for each blo
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220 Manual Operation The branch lin
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This Part III of the Users Guide ex
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When a train is running as a multip
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that the lighting is controlled by
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228 Diagram 137: Arranging a Train
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The opposing operation, i.e. turnin
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train, then both trains are automat
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234 11.3 List of enabled Trains and
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238 Diagram 138: Arranging Consumpt
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240 Diagram 139: Vehicle Maintenanc
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242 12.1 Folders All objects are gr
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Indicators, which are being used to
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equired state to meet the condition
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A special application of operations
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X 256 Hot Key Operations Push Butto
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In TrainController Gold it is also
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For this mechanism, a track occupan
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X 262 Flagman Trigger Memory Left T
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With the exception, that manual rou
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268 Diagram 152: Assigning start an
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X decommissioned turnout cannot cha
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• Stop schedule: if this option i
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Graphical problems like these are s
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X ! X 282 Virtual Occupancy Indicat
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Train groups can contain other trai
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located at both ends of a train set
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If two or more identical paths in a
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296 Diagram 170: Schedule “2A to
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298 Diagram 172: Timetable Window U
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In order to work properly the turnt
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can be caused to leave the turntabl
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X 316 18 Special Applications 18.1
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X X blocks where engines are passed
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• Operating trains with individua
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In order to arrange Computer Cab Co
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It is very easy to adjust the polar
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track instead. To be on the safe si
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328 Diagram 190: Reserving a Block
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ently used by a train is improved.
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332 Migrating Turntables and Transf
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• Routes, that connect such moved
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aberration protection 289 accelerat
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forwarding of functions 229 four as
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slip turnout 94 sound files engine
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