The dispatcher panel on the PC is on my layout.
It is LCC software and hardware using SPROG and Decoderpro and uses circuit boards bought at
The LCC controls all my signals and turnouts and lets me know where trains are located on the layout (high lighted in red).
I began installing the signaling system around January 2019 and took around 4 months to get the 'bulk' of it installed.
This is not a 'plug and play' system plus it cost me around 4-5 grand.
The beginning of my signaling install starts on this page of my thread:
https://ogrforum.com/...hern-railway?page=24
There are about 50 signal 'heads' on the layout.
The signaling system is 'prototype' in that:
red: next block is occupied
Yellow: 2nd block is occupied
Flashing yellow: 3rd block is occupied
Green: proceed.
It make operating the layout much easier as I don't have to tell the engineers to 'proceed to such and such city and wait';
all they have to do is obey the signals.
Turnouts can be changed by 'clicking' on them with the mouse.
The dispatchers panel will also indicate whether the train is heading 'East' or 'West'.
All my cabeese have marker lights so each block is in 'red' until the train is completely out of the block.
Also, it makes the layout 'pop' having functional signals.
Those old magazine pictures are from the 1940's and 50's.
Sometimes the mainline gets quite busy even with a 400' long mainline!
