Switch Position default

[dlfrenchmd]

Not strictly a TSRE question, but I think the track laying experts lurk here. On laying the switches at Baird, TX on the T&P route, the freight siding comes off the straight section of the switch while the station main takes the divergent. Since this comes right after the previous mainline divergent switch, it is hard to manually change the switch without hitting "pause". Since the resting position of this switch in prototype is divergent rather than straight, is there a way to have the default position on this switch divergent, being able to manually switch to straight if I want to use the freight track? If so, it should be relatively simple to program the signals for that.
Thanks.
Dan

[eric]

Most of the track systems have a DIV type switch option that has the diverging path as the default when placing.

Give that a shot first, and if that isn't an option, I can try to walk you through how to change it in the tdb manually.

Some else you can do at least while doing your testing is to set up a path that goes through the routing you want as a default.

There's also the dispatcher window, where you can throw switches manually in advance.

[dlfrenchmd]

Thanks!!
Will try
Dan

[dlfrenchmd]

Eric:
Is the DIV switch option you mentioned under "Shape Templates" as DefaultTrack2 or DefaultTrack3 in TSRE Object:trackobj window?

[rdayt]

If you enter div.s in TSRE's search box it shows them all.

Randy

div-s.jpg

[eric]

Yup, I was just grabbing the same screenshot, although you don't need the ".s" in the search box. Just "div" will be fine if using ATracks and Scalerail. Both use the same naming convention, but it's always possible other track systems may not.

capture_5100029.jpg capture_5100028.jpg

[eric]

Separately, there's no simple way to modify the turnout in the TDB for the alternate path if the DIV type doesn't exist, as it relies on the SectionIdx for the geometry.

However it is possible to manually declare a turnout with the DIV path in the local global TSection.dat for the route. Hopefully it won't come to that.

[rdayt]

However it is possible to manually declare a turnout with the DIV path in the local TSection.dat for the route.

How would one go about doing this?
It'd be a good piece of information to have.

Randy

[eric]

I'll have to dig a bit and test it before I commit to what I remember working.

[eric]

OK, it's not doing it within local TSection either, so that would leave one last set of possibilities --

1) adding the Div declaration into the global TSection, and running as a mini-route, or
2) asking Derek to include a new track section with the Div settings for a future version of the Global TSection...

Allowing additional declarations other than just dynamic tracks within the Local TSection is something that I believe was already suggested to the OpenRails team to handle things just like this.

[geepster775]

Didn't a couple of mainline siding switches in the MLT Rogers Pass route (the days of the ole RE!) have the main set for the diverging route, by default? Maybe Cascades Crossing, too, around one end of the siding at Oakridge?

[csantucci]

Allowing additional declarations other than just dynamic tracks within the Local TSection is something that I believe was already suggested to the OpenRails team to handle things just like this.

This is possible, see paragraph 16.8 of the OR manual.