Hallo Andreas

Welcome to the forum.

I agree with you, it will be nice to have more activity linked between the feedbacks & the functions of the locos.
Send the the request to Märklin.

Pieter

....many things could be done....It's been now 1 or 2 years I 'd try to join Marklin to give them some ideas by showing REAL TRAIN regulation documents (with graphic)...that could be a lot of fun on a touch screen, very realistic too... Some people here already gave me an adress of Marklin's R&D (or equivalent) department but I had a computer "accident" that has made me loosing most of my data (and many adresses...) I had to change my PC.......
I have tried to join Lutz Hemmerich several times as he is a neighbour....but he never gave any answer...

Now now Nevie, be good!

......about REAL TRAIN TRAFFIC REGULATION...how they work is quite interesting. One line has its Chief of traffic , responsible of all the traffic on a given line between point A to point B.....how they manage it according to the timing ( stops at intermediate station or not, cruising speed of each train,passenger trains or goods train, etc....) is interesting & based upon somewhat simple procedure & simple principle.....They are using graphics that could be easily reproduced on a touch screen (or any screen) as a nice & simple user-interface ("Chief of Traffic" interface ) on which the player could enter data and visualize a whole session with several trains at a glance.......
Of course we don't have a 300 km long line at home.....but the distance could be easily changed in "laps of layout" with/without stops, launching a complete 1 hour or 1/2 hour lasting session has more sense....(at any scaled time - or not scaled - & any scheduled service...)....
Time criteria = very interesting approach...Time dimension is really what is missing....even on a simple layout with 1 or 2 trains this may give much more fun...
About model train however, identification modules - or any other way of Identification of trains at some parts of the layout - are necessary to make it more simple & funny...Remember in the old times : each time a train was leaving the station, the Chief of station had a phone call to the next station to communicate : time of leaving + which train.
For an average layout I believe 1 or 2 or 3 zones of identification are enough. I.E. : as a block the whole station is 1 identification zone. In which track inside the station trains are stopping or passing, can be managed by the memory. to know which train is entering or leaving the station + at what time : this is all we need.

I know that some software on PC can do it actually : but they are too much complicated (quite expensives at this level). I believe this could be done in a more simple way and a more realistic way , CS 2 is an ideal item for that..

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