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Driving trains manually is fun, but driving more than 2 without causing accidents can be quite taxing. It would help if trains can drive automatic. Then it can be fun to control a few by hand in between all the automated traffic. TC can handle all that. There are several options for automated traffic: – … Continue reading
In the previous video’s we did all the preliminary work to now be able to drive trains around on the layout, while their routes will be protected via the use of blocks and sensors. A real layout, by the way, does not even need to be connected, we can use the built in Simulator. First … Continue reading
In order for TC to know where our trains are, we need sensors on our track to detect them. There is quite some information available on the internet on the different types of sensors that can be used. Most popular is the so called current sensing, whereby with some electronics it is detected if a … Continue reading
When the drawing of the layout has been made on the switchboard, it is time to add the ‘blocks’. Blocks are used to prevent trains from colliding. A block is a stretch of track in which the presence of a train is monitored by sensors (this is often called occupancy detection). Other trains that would … Continue reading
In this thrird video on working with Traincontroller we’ll have a look at how easy it is to draw a layout on a switchboard and how to link the turnouts to the DCC addresses in our Command Station. TC has a ‘Draw’ tool with which creating a layout becomes a matter of seconds. Turnouts are … Continue reading
Now that the software is installed and the connection to the Command Station has been made, the fun can start. The first thing to try out is to drive some trains. Click the ‘Edit mode’ icon, or select menu ‘View – Edit Mode’, or press hotkey Ctrl-E to get into ‘Edit Mode’. A new train … Continue reading
Well … ‘the bullet went through the church’ (Dutch saying for ‘a decision has been made’ 🙂 ) … this is the first of what is intended to become a series of vide’s on ‘Working with Traincontroller’. I like the software so much that I plan to control my layout with it. Thought it might … Continue reading
Originally I had planned the next video to be on Rocrail. But past weekend I downloaded the Traincontroller demo and I got so caught up with it that Rocrail will have to wait. 🙂 How come I got so caught up? Well … this TC really is a joy to work with. Those who followed … Continue reading
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