Model Railroad System
The Model Railroad System is a software package that can help you run your railroad. It allows you to operate your layout, from running trains to working your signals and switches. It has support for a network of Bruce Chubb CMR/I USIC, SUSIC, and/or SMINI nodes, and/or a network of Lenz's XPressNet DCC nodes. Software to create switch lists for freight car forwarding and create timetables for your railroad are included. There is software to help with photographing your trains, and to compute the correct value for those pesky dropping resistors for LEDs and/or incandescent lamps.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries Tcl Extensions Other/Nonlisted Topic |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix POSIX Linux Windows Windows |
| Implementation | Tcl C++ C |
Recent releases
- 04 May 2009 03:52
Changes: A new library has been added: a version of the XTrkCad parser that uses the Boost Graph Library. Along with this library, a version of Dispatcher is included that uses this new library. Both the older version of the XTrkCad parser library (non-Boost) and the newer one are available, along with both versions of the Dispatcher program. Eventually, the non-Boost versions will be depreciated and eventually removed from the system. A minor bug in the Dispatcher code has been fixed. Minor bugs in some of the documentation have been fixed.
- 15 Jan 2009 21:01
Changes: Minor changes to Dispatcher. A bug in the CMRINode class code has been fixed. A simple installer program has been created. The binary distribution archive structure has been changed, creating separate archives for pure binaries, development binaries, and documentation. Man pages have been created for executable programs.
- 30 Jul 2008 08:02
Changes: Minor changes were made to Dispatcher. Preliminary user documentation was written for Dispatcher. A set of example Dispatcher control panels were created and included in the distribution.
- 26 Apr 2008 18:13
Changes: Two new programs were added. The first is Dispatcher, a dispatcher control panel builder. It can also load XTrkCAD layout files and draw a graph network of the layout, which should be useful in creating dispatcher control panels. The second is ModelRRSystem, a launcher with simple window manager features. These new programs are in an alpha and experimental state. There is no documentation for them yet. Minor parser fixes were made to handle minor changes in XTrkCAD layout files. A pile of problems with the build process was fixed.
- 06 Apr 2008 01:48
Changes: A problem with cross-building was fixed.
