I've been able to get some work done during the week, and things have moved along as a result. I've had a couple of operating sessions with friends from work, and that has provided a different perspective. Progress that we've made includes:
- Portsmouth station now has its control panel installed. All of the pushbuttons and LEDs work as expected, but it's not yet fully handshaked to Traincontroller.
- I've also added a power control panel, with display of PM42 zone and trac power state.
- I've added the uncoupling magnets for the Portsmouth yard.
- The Portsmouth panel pushbuttons for "enable/disable access to this track" are fully connected into Traincontroller. I was able to add an operation to the contact indicator that operated the "pushbutton" element on the schedule controlswitchboard, which in turn set up allow entry/exit to the blocks.
- I finally fixed the schedules for Clanfield (changes to the block diagram had ripped up the routes to/from the platforms). There's an icon on the toolbar of the block diagram window you need to click to allow you to pick tracks from the block diagram.
The last session we had rsulted in very reliable train runs, and quite a few operations to and from Portsmouth. We need the schedules to "catch up" now so that trains go away for a while and come back after a significant run.