Gabor,
What I was meaning was a block sensor would be fine for following the train
after the initial block and before the final block, as you said, no other
trains would be on those blocks. But the initial and final blocks, which
might have other trains also, you would need to use the reporter, providing
it knows to report additional trains arriving while the sensor would show
the block already occupied.
On some systems, placement of reporters could have one reporter covering
multiple blocks. Or one block to reporter, all depends on the wiring. I'm
not sure if you could have different reporters within a single block, I
think it would interfere with the sensor.
-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
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Ken Cameron