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Modelling Time Locks on Switches

Sat, 2015-06-20 07:14 — petersenm

Time Locks – An Introduction

O gauge Layout update June 10,15

Wed, 2015-06-10 07:32 — Coal and steel rr

Interfacing With Iowa Scaled Engineering’s Fast Clocks

Tue, 2015-06-09 15:43 — petersenm

The idea of a clock that runs faster than real time to compensate for the compression in our model world is nothing new. The idea has been with us since at least the 1960s. It provides a way to schedule our operating sessions, providing a sense of real time passage and urgency without needing literally thousands of feet of track to represent the vast distances covered by our prototype railroads. Aside from being a display on the wall, guiding operators’ train movements, fast clocks have remained an isolated system, our model world unaffected by the passage of scale t

OPS Program

Mon, 2015-06-08 10:26 — 187

A few weeks ago I found a post somewhere of an OPS program that had really good screens. The commentary was that you inventoried your cars and your industries and specified each industries inbound and outbound cars and their frequency. Then you do a few tweaks and overrides before generating a train list as to what went where and what got picked up and where each of those cars went.It wasn't JMRI based or simply Access/Excel. It actually had screens to input data. I vaguely remember thinking that I could order it over the net.

New Railpro Software. Anyone using the new features that you pay for yet?

Sat, 2015-06-06 14:01 — Roundhousecat

I see that RailPro has released some new software to upload your own files to the handheld device. Has anyone purchased the Railpro Assistant feature enable yet? if you have, how well does it work? I don't have a layout built yet, but wanted to get the items needed so I could just start once I have the time.

So do I really need the extra pay for software? Does anyone else use it and what do you think of it?

I like the idea of being able to load specific sounds for the device, but just need to ask a few more questions.

Thanks.

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railquik

Tue, 2015-06-02 11:26 — tommypelley

Awile back I decided to try railquick. I downloaded and installed it. Found out my computer lacks "access". There was some talk if I remember about possibly making it work with more open source programs. Has this been done yet? I know copies of access are still available but the ones I fi d are either not compatible with my machine or waaaaay out of my budget.