On your track plan, the signal aspect for entering the siding has a medium speed.? That means the train has to reduce the speed to medium "before" reaching the signal mast.? When you are going from siding to siding, the speed will stay at medium.? If there are intermediate signals showing clear, then the train should speed up until it passes the intermediate signal.
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I am making progress but i am a little bit confused, as I don't think the the warrants are acting like they should.? Allow me to explain:
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Some background:
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My layout runs from Buffalo to Chicago, with seven (7) passing sidings.? All are signalled, and the O-Block checker says all is well, as the portals and paths are correct, and all portals have signal? masts assigned and correctly functioning.? All blocks and paths have lengths included, accurate to the nearest inch.? Loco's speed matched and limited to 50 MPH top speed.
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What I am trying to accomplish is to get a "cleaning train" from a siding, make a couple of loops on the layout min lines, and again a couple of loops including the passing sidings, then park abck into the siding it came from.? Somethin like this:
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Warrant 1 - I call this Cleaning train lap 1: Runs from its Storage siding in Buffalo to the Chicago Yard main, on the main only, no sidings are traversed.
Warrant 2 - Cleaning train Lap 2:? Runs from Chicago to Buffalo on the main, no sidings traversed, ends up on the Buffalo Yard Main line.
Warrant 3 - Cleaning train Lap 3:? Runs from Buffalo to Chicago, and travels through all of the passing sidings, ending up on the Chicago Yard Main Line.
Warrant 4 - Cleaning train Lap 4:? Runs from Chicago to Buffalo, again traversing the passing sidings, end in on the main in Buffalo Yard.
Warrant 5 - Cleaning train lap 5:? Runs from Buffalo main line to the storage siding for the cleaning train (this one is not completed yet)
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Case #1 -?If i run a train via Warrants 1 or 2,? regardless of the direction (B to C, or C to B) without taking any passing sidings, the warrant works like i think it should, meaning the train respects the speed limits and restrictions quite nicely.? However, with Warrants 3 or 4, with a speed restriction on the sidings, the train will slow down to the required speed in the preceding block, which is a main line and should be traversed at "normal" speed.? Essentially what is happening is that the train is traveling the entire length of the layout at "medium" speed, or about 25 MPH.? I think the train should traverse the track between passing sidings at 'Normal" speed and only reduce the speed to traverse the turnouts leading into and out of the passing siding.? Some of my passing sidings are long (the shortest is 10') so I think the train speed should ramp up to normal on these sidings.? ?Is it fixable? If so, how do I fix this???
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Case #2.? When a train is enters a block, and the other end of the block has a turnout thrown against it, the train will slow to a stop at the entry end, about 25% of the way into the block, rather than travel the length of the block and stop short of the? signal.? Is it fixable? If so, how do I fix this???
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I hope I have explained this clearly, and sorry for the long post, but this is really got me stumped!? Hopefully someone else has run into this and can offer some advice!
