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For each engine you can specify its type. This describes, how the engine is powered -
steam, diesel or electric. The type is used to simulate the consumption of resources such
as coal or diesel.
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Diagram 57: General Properties of an Engine
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.
Like in real railroads an engine can only run with one train. Internally TrainController
uses a smart “coupling” mechanism. When a train is started, all engines assigned
to this train are assumed to be coupled to this train. As long as the train is running these
engines cannot be operated individually or with other trains. When the train stops, the
affected engines are assumed to be uncoupled. They are then available to be operated
individually or with other trains. This internal “coupling” and “uncoupling” is done
automatically. The software requires no manual intervention. However the real coupling
and uncoupling of the engines on the model railroad is still to be done by the operator.