triggers How do you use them?

[guyyug]

Hey i have been trying to use triggers but i havent quite figured them out yet and help?

 

[fran1]

Place a trigger and name it.
Use the edit session option and add the driver command "wait for trigger".
When in driver you can now give any loco the "wait for trigger xxx" by any train or by a specific one. Then it will carry out its commands.
For eg a coal train unloading at a power station. Once this has cleared the section it triggers the next coal train to go in and unload. Simples.

 

[stagecoach]

There are a number of ways for using triggers, one already explained. Others can be used to run a schedule with the schedule at TM command, trigger multiple signals when named signals will be set when a train is on the named trigger. Triggers have also been created to control level crossings (ATLS). Use the trigger in combination with a command or instruction that will start when any train or a named train crosses that trigger.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I am under the impression that triggers do not activate, unless each and every train(s) schedual is configured seprately.

That they do not activate by random un-configured passing trains, that do not have a trigger mentioned in their schedual.

 

[stagecoach]

All triggers activate when a train passes them. It is only the train that is waiting for a trigger that has the driver command. Wait for trigger alows you to select any train or a named train passing a selected named trigger.
When a train passes a trigger it sends a message which records the name of the trigger and the train that passed it. The waiting train will only act when the message sent is the same as that set up in the driver command. Post message and wait for message and clear are driver commands that work in the same way but these must be in both the trigger train (PM) and the waiting train (WfMaC). These commands work well when you need to have a train wait to do a job but dont know what time the other train might arrive. Example train arrives at station splits and the heads off to some destination. It uses the post message to let an engine know it has left wagons behind and he can then couple and remove them from the station. These also work well with portal created trains as you dont know the name or number of the engine to specify in the wait for trigger command.