TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

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• Accessory elements of several types – push buttons, toggle switches or on-off
switches – operate additional accessories such as uncouplers or lights or can be used
to trigger other actions like playing of sound files.
• Block Symbols can be used for quick setup of automatic operation and display of
train positions.
• Text elements can be used as labels, e.g. for tracks in stations.
• Images can be inserted into your track diagrams to display landscapes, buildings,
streets or other objects of your model railroad.
The following elements can be additionally added to switchboards in specific cases:
• Route elements enable manual route operation and locking on layouts.
• Indicator elements are provided as contact indicators or as more intelligent flagman
indicators to allow monitoring of the model railroad, creation of semi-automatic and
automatic control mechanisms, or tracing of train positions.
• Virtual Contact Indicators can be used to reduce the number of track contacts which
are needed for automatic operation.
The following steps are performed to create a full functioning switchboard:
• Drawing the track diagram of the related area
• Connecting turnouts and signals
• Inserting block symbols
• Placing signals and accessory elements
• Adding text labels and images
The following steps are mainly performed in the switchboard in those cases where it is
desired, to monitor the traffic on the layout to a certain degree, or to achieve semiautomatic
operation of the layout without running the Visual Dispatcher. If the Visual
Dispatcher is being used, the following steps are performed in the Visual Dispatcher rather
than a switchboard.
• Creating manual routes
• Inserting contact indicators
• Arranging semi-automatic control mechanisms
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2.2 Size and Appearance
For each switchboard it is possible to customize the size, i.e. the numbers of rows and
columns, and the appearance individually.