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• Draw the complete track diagram of your layout with all turnouts and crossings and
without any gaps in the switchboard, that is contained in the main window of the
software.
• Create traffic boxes for all blocks of the layout, place them according to their location
on the actual layout and ensure, that they are turned horizontally or vertically
according to the track symbols, to which they are attached.
• Ensure that the blocks are connected by track symbols without any gaps.
Links and Routes between Blocks
In order to let trains run from one block to another the blocks must be linked together.
This is done with the help of links or routes. In the block diagrams links and routes are
represented by lines that connect one block with an adjacent block.
Each block has two entries/exits. If a block is passed horizontally, then the entries/exits
are graphically located on the left and on the right side of the block. If a block is passed
vertically, then the entries/exits are located at the top and at the bottom. Each link or
route begins at the entry/exit of a block and ends at the exit/entry of an adjacent block.
Routes are used to connect two blocks, if turnouts are to be thrown in order to allow a
train to travel from one block to the other.
The following image explains the terms once more:
Block
Route or Link
Diagram 81: Blocks, Route and Link
In the diagram displayed above the blocks “Southtown 1” and “Main Line East” are
connected with a link or a route.
If you block diagram is automatically calculated, then the necessary links and routes are
automatically created according to the track connections between the blocks (traffic
boxes) in the track diagram of your switchboard.
The main block diagram of the complete layout is drawn within one single diagram.
The space provided by the software is not limited. In case of large layouts it
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