Hi Steve,
Thanks for the heads up on Priority, I suspected it was currently "an undocumented feature".
I will investigate the Pause allocation feature again once I have my layout up and running again. ?I was a bit pressed for time before the show so if something did not work as I expected I did not spend a lot of time playing. ?Other more pressing issues to solve and simply used workarounds if possible.
Trains failing to stop at the end of a Transit were definitely ignoring the held signal at Stop. ?The Auto trains window still showed the throttle as being at the speed setting the train had when it entered the section. ?I was using continuos running but with a fixed delay time 10-60 fast clock minutes before that train was "scheduled" to be re dispatched. ?Fortunately this did not cause dramas for the show because all the staging tracks have a dead section before the departure road which only becomes active when the turnouts for that road are aligned (belts and braces). ?This feature was a hangover from previous hardwired train sequencing but was similar in operation to another recent thread on this forum about stopping trains running into turnouts.
I suspect the horn issues were loco pickup related. ?Poor contact at the instant the command was sent resulted in it being lost. ?It became more common towards the end of the day when track and loco wheels were becoming less than pristine. ?In any case sending a second turn off command did seem to work and is not difficult. ?I will look at using a text editor to find and replace the horn commands in the transits to send a delayed function 2 off command after each sound horn command. ?I was only using single timed blasts as my quick investigation of play a pattern did not appear to function as I expected. ?More play time is required.
At the moment all the signal masts are virtual; (CTC, track circuits and automatic signalling did not feature in the location and time period of my layout), ?I just have some Logix controlled semaphores (signal heads) on the layout which follow the appropriate signal masts. ?(My drivers running the Automatic Trains use "In Cab" signals.)
Many thanks for yours and others great contributions to JMRI. ?
Don
