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Train Windows
The train window enables the operation of your engines and trains. To control several
trains simultaneously, you can open as many train windows on your computer screen as
desired.
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.
As with real railroads, there is also a difference between engines and trains in Train-
Controller In order to be able to run your engines, it is sufficient to enter them as
engines in TrainController and to specify their digital addresses.
To operate a certain engine on your layout, just 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.
Trains are used to obtain more realistic effects like multiple unit operation or in the consideration
of car tonnage for speed calculation. A train represents a consist of one or
more engines and a couple of cars. If a certain engine is sometimes running a light and
fast passenger train, and at other times a heavy and slow freight train, then you can create
different trains in order to reproduce the behavior of the engine in either situation.
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.