dear Märklin friends,

I need to ask you suggestions how to build a shuttle train route on a loop back which enters in two different station tracks. I have on them 2 different circuit tracks just entering the station. I mean, how can I make the locos leaving the station through the first track and then entering back in the second one and then going back ot first ones and so on?

Thank you in advance

Hi Klarinettmeister,

Thank you so so so much for your advice...it is very precious to me!! so you mean that I can connect the outgoing swicth of the first track with the entering one of the second ones and so the entering ones of the first with the outgoing of the second ones...isn't it?
thanks so much

dear Clapcott,

I have a CS1 and the module S88 is from Viessmann, because the original Märklin isn't yet availbale...

Rocca,

The Shuttle features of the CS1 and CS2 are significantly different and Davids suggestion will not work for you.

This is because the CS1 "ignores" the sensor (at one end) until the sensor at the other end has been triggered. This is an advantageous feature as it covers a multitude of "events" where the sensor is re-triggered by other bouncing wheels (if using contact tracts) or is pulsed again on the return journey (reed switch).
The CS2 is not so kind to the user and while I can speculate why this may have been done I generally regarded it as a backward step on this product - but that is a different story.

If I understand your trackplan correctly it is something like this...



2 sensors are needed going to separate s88 inputs (shown as 4 and 8 )
- Create a shuttle route with these two IDs listed and choose your delay time
- set your locomotive BETWEEN the sensors
- (optional but recommended) press STOP on the CS1 (or otherwise isolate the power to the track) so the locomotive does not move over the sensors before you have completed the following steps
- Dial up the speed for the locomotive
- Set the locomotive for the shuttle route created
- Press GO on the CS1 (or otherwise switch power to the track)

Shuttle setup would be something like this ...



Points:
- The Loco speed cannot be changed once it is assigned to a Shuttle route
- With Circuit tracks, you must take into account the location of the shoe on the train (diagram shoes these offset)
- please verify you sensors are functioning first (before jumping to any conclusion that it is the Shuttle function that is faulty)
- - most common "gotcha", is failing to connect the return/ground reference to the s88

Recommend:
- using a locomotive that accepts directionally specific commands

Edited by user 07 May 2013 04:35:53(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hi Rocca,

it is not in stock for a long time (old version and new M88, as you know, is not yet available) , so it's better for you to order somewhere else for dealers.
BUT Viessmann is exactly the same as Marklin, BUT its much cheaper!

Cheers!

Boris

well, thank to everybody! Problem solved...the wires need to be bended very hard and now it is working properly!

Best regrads
stefano

Hi, dear Clapcott,

Thanks again!! Anyway now I'm having another strange thing: I want to use two routes for switching the turnout entering to the end station and so I have connected the other two wires of the swtching tracks to two other ports of the S88 (properly the 4 and 6) and when the port 4 switch the route 1 is all working fine, but when the train comes to the port 6 I don't guess why but the switching track switches the route 2 just when the loco is entering the rail and not when it leaves it.
and Anyway if I try the switching with no loco on, it works properly and the routes are switching only if the switching rails are jumped in the right direction...!!
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance