OperationsPro
A subset of JMRI which is used to prepare manifests and/ or switch lists to assist in operating sessions of your model railroad.
In order to produce these you will need to enter information about your layout?
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?After providing information about Settings, Locations, Cars and Locomotives you will be able to create TRAINS which will be used to move cars around the layout.
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? ? --?SETTINGS:? This is where you enter information about Operations and your layout
- Then name of your Railroad
- Scale of your layout
- Maximum length of trains to be run
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? ? ?--?Locations:??area of the layout which will consist of industries which will require rolling stock to be serviced
? ? ? ? ? ?A Location can consist of any number of tracks (spurs), yards) or interchanges?
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? ? ? ? Each track will require a:
- unique name
- length (feet)
- types of rolling stock which can be served
- indication as to whether it is a spur, a yard or an Interchange
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? ? -- Cars:? details of each piece of? equipment? on the layout; including?
- road number
- name
- colour
- length (in feet)
- type of car
- location and track where car exists currently on the layout
- current load in car (optional)
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? -- Locomotives:? details of each locomotive on the layout
- road number
- name
- colour
- length (in feet)
- location and track where loco exists currently on the layout
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? --?Routes:??essentially a listing of the locations which a train will visit and the order in which the train will visit these locations
- requires a unique name
- the name of each location to be visited
- number of moves allowed at each location
- whether location will allow set outs or pick ups
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? ?--? Trains:? details of any train which will be run
- name of train
- Description of Train
- locomotive to be used (optional)
- type of cars to be serviced
- a Route for the train to use
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Suggestion:
- Proceed slowly
- Enter a few details for each part of the program
- Try things out
- Add to the complexity as you go
- ?Save / Backup your work as you go
- Load the 'Demo Files' and try things out --?
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