On my layout I want some trains to make a scheduled stop at a station, while others just need to rush through. With the trains that need to stop, I think it looks nicer when they already slow down in the previous block and then smoothly enter the station at an already reduced speed. There are several possibilities to do this in TC. The video shows some of these possibilities.
In TC, the maximum speed at which a train can drive in a block is the minimum of several settings:
– max engine speed
– max block speed at green signal
– max block speed at yellow signal
– block speed settings per Schedule
– temporary speed limits
The position where a train starts to slow down in a block is the ‘brake marker’. If a slow down takes place in the previous block already, then that starts at the ‘brake marker’ of that block, unless a ‘speed marker’ was placed, in which case this ‘speed marker’ position is used (which can be placed before or after the brake marker).
Alternatively a ‘temporary speed limit’ could be used as an ‘operation’ with an ‘action marker’.
As always, several options are available. Which one to choose may depend on the task you like to accomplish or on your personal preferences.
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Ruud, i use a actionmarker with a temporary speedlimit at the end of a long block just before it enters the station but the loc keeps this temporary speed in the blocks afterwards,how do i disable it? I thought that it would be automatically switch off in the next block. I use v7 gold.
Edwin
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Posted by Edwin | November 13, 2015, 13:49Hi Edwin. Well … I would have thought, like you, that after a stop marker it would pick up normal block speeds again. That’s how it is over here anyhow. In my case however, at the station it starts a new Schedule (or restarts the same Schedule), maybe that makes the difference?
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Posted by RudyB | November 13, 2015, 14:38I solved it with a condition in the actionmark, there you can set in which blocks it will be enabled
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Posted by Edwin | November 13, 2015, 15:57Hi rudy I see on your TC layout the icons in front of the physical block icon. They look like toggle switches what do you use them for..??
As I am a visual learn hence why I am getting so much out of your tutorials would it be possible to get a copy of your layouts TC to open up in my gold version to have a look at your settings etc??
Cheers
Sent from my iPad
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Posted by ndjohnsy1@bigpond.com | August 13, 2015, 22:09Hi Darren. They are used as on/off switches for schedules. Have been doing some graphics work past week to get a collection of different design switches and flagmen. I’ll put the layout ready for download on the software page one of these days.
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Posted by RudyB | August 13, 2015, 22:26