What the Real-time Status Display does and how it helps the Conductors, Engineers, Yard Masters and Visitors. Use PIP overlay of Loco movement on Status Display.

Generate example of manifests, waybills, schedules and switchlists for one type of Lading, two Shippers and two Consignees

Completing all trains, needed for the first two shipments in the above video above, requires 10 train in a twelve hour period (see below).Three windows are collated in this image: manifests, shipments and train rules. Note that in addition to the six locals run from Reading, Philadelphia or Erie yards, four way freights were needed to move empty or full cars between these three yards.

Notice that in the shipments window, two shipments were created to move empty cars back to their respective home yards

The train rules for the Phuilly local chosen is shown in the Train Rules window.

Yuengling Beer from Pottsville to distribution points in Shamokin, Philadelphia, Scranton

Developed Robot Trains for fully controling my layout as well as for museums, hobbyist's homes and other model train layouts. The video demos my Beta 1 version that obeys signals, turnouts, and sensors along a route through blocks of track on my layout. This version also supports multiple reverse/forward directives as part of a Robot Train's route. When controls are installed and my database app is installed and populated for all tracks/blocks, sensors, turnouts and signals then only the desired stop specs and turnout settings must be specified to create a robot train route script that will operated under a JMRI controlled layout. My idea is to allow a dispatcher to controll all or a portion of the layout. Two or more sections of the layout will allow dispatchers to jointly advance robot trains. This could be used as a game by visitors or members. So instead of museum gazing, visitors can safely control train flows by acting as the dispatcher of some or all of the layout. We now allow a dispatcher to control main and alternate bypass tracks to effect Meets via altering routes, For now we constrain East to West trains to the Main line and West to East trains to the passing sidings or vice versa. Of course since human operators (should) also obey the signals, turnouts and dispatcher directives, a mix of human controlled and robot controlled trains could operate a layout at the same time.

Robot Train with Reverse Beta 2 - Loco and five cars dynamincally change speeds based on sensors and script. Stops at four location for unloading beer to thirsty people!

Sound standards for R and C Robot and Manual trains are demoed. Trains arriving to a stop sound one long horn blast plus the bell until trains stops. Departing trains sound two long horn blasts, a delay then two more long horn blasts. Reversing trains sound three short horn blasts plus the horn until train stops.