Dark territory and track warrants?

[davebridges]

Will Open Rails' dispatching system include support for dark territory and/or track warrant control, or will it be CTC only?

[caldrail]

Strictly speaking dark territory or track warrants are already possible in MSTS if you get creative with signals. That would mean Open Rails could handle it too.

[longiron]

Will Open Rails' dispatching system include support for dark territory and/or track warrant control, or will it be CTC only?

The OR team has interests that span the early days of RR, narrow gauge, steam transition, right up to the most modern European hi speed rail. So, dark territory and track warrant control is definitely on the agenda to support. The beauty of what the team is working on .... is a "signal" could be any 3D shape. A tree, a station, or a 3D person. So imagine that the "signal control" is a station/depot. You would have to "stop" at the depot to get permission to proceed to the next control point. The signal state would essentially be a pop up message with the track warrant to proceed.

[davebridges]

Interesting...

So would we be able to alter the wording of the message to resemble the wording of each particular railroad's track warrants? And, possibly, to have user-defined parameters (lead engine number, dispatcher's initials, etc.) defined in the Activity file and passed in, so that the track warrant would be addressed to your actual lead unit?

[OTTODAD]

So would we be able to alter the wording of the message to resemble the wording of each particular railroad's track warrants? And, possibly, to have user-defined parameters (lead engine number, dispatcher's initials, etc.) defined in the Activity file and passed in, so that the track warrant would be addressed to your actual lead unit?

I have been a train simulator user since 2001 and a railway modeller for decades before and have no idea what the above is all about and apart from a handful with real railroad experience doubt whether others have ever heard about it either.

I do not want to be a trained in all aspects of driving a train engineer and want to just enjoy an otherwise fully functioning train simulator running in attractive and real looking scenery, like I can do in the MS-FS-X simulator, where being a real private pilot can enjoy it's accurate representation of fully functioning planes like some of the real Cessnas and Pipers I used to fly before retiring.

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[longiron]

I have been a train simulator user since 2001 and a railway modeller for decades before and have no idea what the above is all about and apart from a handful with real railroad experience doubt whether others have ever heard about it either.
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Otto,
In its simpliest form, the engineer/conductor were handed train orders which gave them permission to occupy the track for a certain time & place. Thus your train might have permission to proceed to siding XYZ and wait for passenger train #4 to pass before moving to the next location. You waited until the opposing traffice passed before moving.

[OTTODAD]

In its simpliest form, the engineer/conductor were handed train orders which gave them permission to occupy the track for a certain time & place. Thus your train might have permission to proceed to siding XYZ and wait for passenger train #4 to pass before moving to the next location. You waited until the opposing traffic passed before moving.

I guessed that this is what they are about and many MSTS activities are including such instructions like the Railworls Standard scenarios do.

I am a Freestyler like Jim Ward and like to drive trains the way it suits me. Like not having to file a Flight Plan before taking charge of a plane and taking off in a flight simulator.

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