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The Update (328 - 14April2016) just posted makes two additions:
1) Advance Train Consist - on the prototype the Advance Train Consist is available to yardmasters, before a train arrives at their yard. It is "wired ahead": by printing-telegraph, or by machine-card-system and from the late 50s by the computer network. The Advance Train Consist is used for planning yard operations.
In ProTrak, there is a new button, on the "Reporting movements" window, "Advance List". This button appears only after the train-consist has been printed for the train. Clicking the "Advance List" button displays the usual train-consist, but nothing can be changed.
This provides a yardmaster with more information than appears on the "Yard Operations/Preview pickups/setouts" window.
2) The optional "predictive loading" routines move empty cars towards a location where they might be loaded the following "day". These car movements occur >before< a car is assigned a car-order/waybill. These routines pre-position cars.
The routines were added in 2014, and back then ran only during the Daily Summary.
The addition today is that these routines now run also during Operations.
A side-benefit is that empty cars, which would otherwise by in storage at a yard, are moved out of the yard. Towards a customer.
Please note that "predictive loading" applies only customers who uniquely use a particular carkind. If more than 2 customers use the same carkind, no predictive loading is applied.
OK?
Jim
There is also one change, in the Cutlist routines. Some of you may have found that a train that terminates in a Yd yard on-occasion was displaying a blank cutlist (no cars). This only happened sometimes, was not predictable. At the cutlist level I know what was happening (the count of cars in the arriving train was being set incorrectly to zero), but not why. To fix the issue I made a change to how the cutlist was loaded, avoiding the car-count variable. More solid and more redundant approach.
Works here.
Jim
10:15 pm
April 26, 2015
Thanks Jim.
Drew Madere
owner/chief engineer
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (O-scale)
Laplace, Louisiana
http://drews-train-layout.blogspot.com/
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: 1972–1988
Main Line of Mid-America
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