TimetablEd

In co-operation with SignalSimulation.com / Signalsoft Rail Consultancy Ltd. / Richard Plokhaar, railroad consultant and railway simulation developer, I am developing a new railway schedule editor. The editor makes it easy to set up the trains that will run through the new Signalsoft Post T series of railroad simulators.

While playing the simulator you are the dispatcher who must control the signalling and switching to allow the trains to stop and pass through your area of responsibility on schedule - the challenge is you are using 1950's era technology for communications and control! The simulation platform accurately reproduces train physics and events that effect their travel over your rails. It is useful as a simulation for railroad enthusiasts or as a complete simulation platform for modeling and analyzing real-world railroad traffic.

The timetable editor features:

• Entry locations & times, exit location
• Station stop locations & times
• Arrival, departure & pass-through events
• Textual & graphical representation & editing for easy conflict resolution
• Special orders editing (train renumbering, direction switching, coupling & uncoupling of complete consists)
• Train consist editing: locomotive & car selection
  
• Special train & activity designation
• Timetable printing

There will be a series of simulators, modeling various real-world railway centers. A simulator demo is available now at www.signalsimulation.com/content/category/3/7/7/

More information about the Post T series is available at www.signalsimulation.com

The editor and the first full simulation are in final beta testing stage and will be available spring 2009