control/dispatch panel sketch. input welcome

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tankist

tankist

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with turnouts, turnout motors, micro-switches here and some LED's toggle switches and buttons almost here i started looking very closely at control panels (you probably seen my thread earlier). looked at several CDU circuits, C/MRI hardware and JMRI suite. with that i read up on signaling and dispatching in general (NX, etc).

so to kick things off i'm looking at drawing a schematic diagram of my layout to be used on panel . it will also will be of use documenting my wiring, detection block breakdown and signaling (i feel very enthusiastic about the latter at the moment)
general layout is below. the red section will be full 7 ft long ending with runaround crossover. the purple section is not going to be made at all., not in foreseeable future at least. climb line (left most ) is a revercible block.

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below is my first take on diagram leaving out the yard area which will be getting its own panel.
the one on the bottom i tried to "unfold" per recommendations from "track planning for realistic operation" book. or at least thats how i understood things. input is welcome. how can i emphesise that red section is separate branch? how would you draw this? or am i digging in to deep to early?

trkdiagram-vi.jpg
 
Anton, you can add a small extension to the bottom of the control panel to handle the branchline. There seems to be a feeling that control panels have to be perfectly rectangular but adding extensions to handle esentially separate line, like branks and yards, is really a better idea, since the main line can occupy the center of the panel and the other tracks can be on projections from the mainline panel.
 
thanks Jim. Attached but visibly separate control block for the extension sounds like good idea.


but i guess it is not that important how exactly it is going ti be drawn....
trkdiagram-vi.jpg
 
No, you'll change the arangement drawings as you start to add toggle switches. The most important thing is to get the control panel so that someone who doesn't know your layout can make a close guess as to what tracks the panels depicts.
 
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