Dear All -

If you have Rocrail expertise, please help me overcome my frustration at configuring a particular action.

My test-bed is a rather simple straight track ending in buffers at each end. There is a block to govern stopping and direction reversal at each end. The configuration is as illustrated below:



The sensors not attached to a track below each block are the manually actuated IN sensors that I used to calibrate BBT stopping before reaching the buffers. (They now have no operating role because the block sensor is ENTER2IN and BBT is in FIXED mode.)

In automatic mode, the route ends with the loco arriving in the terminal block, and the loco smoothly stops before hitting the buffers. When I manually change the loco direction in the block (with a control-click on block to get at its menu, and then selecting swap logical direction), the loco restarts and returns to the block where it started, smoothly stopping there.

However, in the routes menu, when I switch on the swap logical direction post option to automatically reverse the direction of the loco, the loco stops instantly upon arriving at the terminal block. The BBT settings are apparently ignored. Then the loco waits and travels back to where it started (and repeats).

Is there a configuration option that I am missing to retain precision BBT stopping but that allows automatic direction reversal, and thus continuous back-and-forth automatic running?

Osoraku

I am running an old version of Rocrail (they stopped support of HSI-S88-USB, so I had no choice I cant upgrade), so maybe things have changed but my routes don't have any change directions set - do you mean 'swap placing post'?

You enable the block with 'allow change direction' and then the locomotive also has 'Commuter train' enabled and the routes are the same as any other.
With those two flags enabled, the locomotive will change direction to be able to use the route in the opposite direction, no forcing of change direction on the route.
I also have a wait timer set on the block because I want the railcar to wait for passengers, I haven't tried it without to determine if the BBT is ignored but works fine as it is.