Portals

The big difference between Iportal and Portal is: with an Iportal the emeging train can be set to automaticly continue driving all on its own on AI...but with Portals the train stops aas a default and requires you to assign a driver and start it running again.
 
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If you setup a portal to emit a train you can setup a driver to drive anywhere on that map. example: drive to : trackmark A (then) drive to: trackmark B;and so on. you can do the same with portal timetable rule, have a train come out of a portal (of your choice) at a preset time and a place(s) to drive to.
Danny5
 
Thanks for the information.

What I am trying to do is just drive several unspecified trains westbound, for example: Starting at Huntingdon through Tunnelhill, (up the PRR Horseshoe Curve-East Slope route), where it will go in the Tunnelhill tunnels (an Iportal). And I close that route. That portion of the route is huge alone. That is why I need to break it up into more managable segments.

Opening up the West Slope route, I find that at Galitzin tunnels Iportal, the same unspecified trains will be emerging, all of them, without having to set up a driver, and without having to assign a drive to point, these unspecified trains continue all on their own AI control, until they meet a less than favorable signal, or a missaligned switch junction.

Iportal does this automaticly...where as with portals, they seem to require me to assign a driver, and assign a drive to point for each emerging train.

Plus with Iportal, someone from Austrialia could send me a train, and vice versa. Soon (Possibly November this year) I hope to distribute my route to the community, were that guy in Austrailia or down the street would be the West Slope Dispatcher...and I would be the East Slope Dispatcher, sending eastbound and westbound trains to each other.
 
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You can change the portal /trackmark etc.on the fly..by opening the train in driver....so all the directions are on the bottom..as long as the train hasn't already passed it..you can just delete the portal/track mark etc.and put what you want in its place...and the AI will go to that location.L
 
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