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Operation of Routes with Start and Destination Keys
On control panels of real railroads, routes are often operated by first pressing a key near
the starting point of the intended route and then pressing a key near its destination
point. The operation of routes in this way can also be done with TrainController.
Usually it is sufficient to operate routes with a single click to the corresponding route
symbol. It may be useful, however, to do this by selecting the start and destination of
the route.
For this purpose it is possible to assign a start and a destination key to each route. This
is done by selecting the symbol of the route and using the Properties command of the
Edit menu. In the following dialog select the tab labelled Start-Dest. Here select the
desired start and destination key.
Diagram 51: Assigning start and destination key to a route
• It is possible to select Push buttons, On-off switches and Contact Indicators (see
section 4, “Contact Indicators”) as start and destination keys. Especially with contact
indicators it is possible to operate routes with start and destination keys in an
external control panel (see section 12.7, “External Control Panels”).
• Several options are provided to adjust the operation with start and destination keys
to your needs. For example it is possible to specify that the route is released when
the destination key is hit again after activation of the route. It is also possible to
specify that the start key must be pressed until the destination key is pressed.
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