Traincontroller 08: Automatic Driving – Spontaneous Run

One of the many possible ways to have automatic traffic with Traincontroller is the so called ‘Spontaneous Run’.

First select a train, by clickiing it either on the Switchboard or in the Engine List.

Now, on the toolbar, click one of the two Spontaneous Run icons in the desired direction.

The SR is added to the Schedules column in the Engines List. The train will take a random route by making random picks from all the blocks it can reach. It looks 2 blocks ahead. The train will temporary stay in its start block when the track ahead is not yet free. Also on the way it will temporarily halt every time tracks ahead are reserved.

When it reaches a dead end, the train will stop and the SR is taken out of the list, unless a tick mark has been set in the Rules, that says ‘Reverse Direction’. The Rules for Spontaneous Run can be found by right click on a train (not in Edit mode, we need to be in Operations mode) and select Rules from the pop up menu.