One of the problems associated with a "sophisticated" model railroad operating system is that when there's a problem, it generally renders the railroad useless...
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Tom Turner
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Nov 9, 2000 1:27 am
All I could suggest would be to try another computer temporarily. My team wasted several months and even paid to send our RS-422 board back to Bruce to have...
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John N Shankland
jns@...
Nov 9, 2000 3:28 am
Any suggestions? It could be your computers serial card. If you have a lap top or another computer, check it out John...
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Donald Wood
Easeeinterface@...
Nov 9, 2000 2:38 pm
Hi Mr. Gruber I have found that in the past when testing the serial RS422 cards that if one chip is bad it can cause the other chips to fail on both the seial...
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John DePauw
johnd@...
Nov 9, 2000 3:17 pm
Tom We haven't had a update on Gary's layout in a while. Where are you with the installation. John DePauw Operating the EJ&E in South East Michigan in 1973 ......
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Tom Turner
tturner@...
Nov 9, 2000 7:11 pm
John, It was nice of you to ask. We have only been working on it every other Tuesday evening so progress has been even slower. What with elections and such....
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Rich Weyand
weyand@...
Nov 10, 2000 3:12 pm
... Got it. In this version, the computer must cede local control, so when the computer is off, you don't get it. Inverting the sense of the LCL output line,...
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Nick Kulp
caseyj@...
Nov 11, 2000 5:26 pm
Listers, I am FINALLY getting to the fun part of the C/MRI installation. The hookup of signals and detectors. After months of signal and board assembly, prep, ...
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Rich Weyand
weyand@...
Nov 11, 2000 6:30 pm
... Well, no that's wrong. So here goes with a very very brief discussion of CTC signalling as practiced on most model railroads. These methods are somewhat...
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John N Shankland
jns@...
Nov 12, 2000 12:59 am
Very nicely done Rich. I have a couple of questions for you. Did the engineer always know what route he would be taking? As he approached a passing siding did...
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Rich Weyand
weyand@...
Nov 12, 2000 8:42 am
... The engineer always knows whether the main or the diverging route is aligned. ... Almost all railroads use stop and proceed for permissive signals. This...
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Nick Kulp
caseyj@...
Nov 12, 2000 7:03 pm
Rich, Thanks very, very much for all of the great info. After spending most of Saturday running wires from the DOUT cards to signals and from detectors to the...
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Dustin Smith
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Nov 13, 2000 1:39 am
Where can I find/get one of these RS422 PCI cards? Is there a company online with a website? thanks! Dustin ... From: Paul Cesak [mailto:pcesak@...]...
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Dustin Smith
smith_dustin@...
Nov 13, 2000 5:22 am
Hey C/MRI Users, Has anyone recently purchased the USIC Chips from Cheasapeake Computer Group lately? Anyone purchased the special high speed version of the...
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David Gibbons
rrgibbons@...
Nov 13, 2000 6:26 am
John, I'd like to add a bit to the thread about signaling that has been running the last few days. I would ask that you think a bit more about signalling...
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Donald Wood
Easeeinterface@...
Nov 13, 2000 2:33 pm
Why Not ask the source www.tccgi.com/contact.html Don Wood ... From: Dustin Smith [mailto:smith_dustin@...] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 12:23 AM ...
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John N Shankland
jns@...
Nov 13, 2000 3:44 pm
... I would be interested in what you mean by the above. My biggest problem now is that no one makes the signal combinations that I need. I wish to use 3 ...
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Stephen Bartlett
sbartlet@...
Nov 13, 2000 5:08 pm
John, John Armstrong had a brief description of how he made his searchlight signals in an article in the September, 1996, Model Railroader Mag. If you want to...
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David Eisenstein
vde9076@...
Nov 13, 2000 7:51 pm
Nick Kulp: Norman Evans has a great series of signal articles in Clear Block, the bulletin of the former SignalSIG of NMRA, now the Railway Signalling...
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Don Mitchell
donm@...
Nov 13, 2000 9:31 pm
Nick Kulp wrote -- ... If the above means that the signals govern the _exit_ movements from the sidings, then the placement is correct. If they govern the ...
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Rich Weyand
weyand@...
Nov 13, 2000 10:20 pm
... He's talking about APB here, Don, which would have one single-headed signal in each direction on a single mast, at the point end of the turnouts. Your...
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HAYESWP@...
Nov 14, 2000 1:26 am
-- Nick you must hold those signals back from the frogs.. You have to have clearance from the passing trains. I have found that crews have a way of pulling...
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Bretton C. Overholtzer
bret1@...
Nov 14, 2000 6:26 pm
Hello everybody: I'm looking for some cab relay cards and/or CRC mother boards. If you have torn these out of your system, and they are collecting dust in your...
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Nick Kulp
caseyj@...
Nov 14, 2000 7:47 pm
Hi Steve, I apologize for not being clear. I was referring to the diagram Bruce shows in his book for APB signaling. See below: ______ 0--| / ... I placed my...
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Stephen Bartlett
sbartlet@...
Nov 14, 2000 11:17 pm
Nick, I can't speak for all railroads, but the MP's APB installations in Texas that I was familiar with had only the one pair of signals at each end of passing...
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Don Mitchell
donm@...
Nov 15, 2000 6:26 am
... Depends on which railroad/rulebook being talked about for APB. SP had examples of both configurations, as apparently did ATSF at some point in time. The...
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David Gibbons
rrgibbons@...
Nov 16, 2000 3:27 am
... SNIP ... John, The question of selective compression of signals is controlled by a the trade off between the cost and effort involved in complete fidelity...
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John Plocher
john.plocher@...
Nov 16, 2000 5:11 am
I note with some dismay that the NMRA Railroad Signal SIG's web pages are no longer accessible via the NMRA SIG Page at ...
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John N Shankland
jns@...
Nov 16, 2000 2:46 pm
Dave, Thank you very much for the excellent dissertation on signaling compression. I had already decided to use double signal bridges one on each side of a ...
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John N Shankland
jns@...
Nov 28, 2000 1:07 am
If any one is interested I have posted some new pictures of my train layout. You can see them at www.hirailers.com under Layouts, John Shankland, New photos...
