Video 05: Using iTrain Tutorial Series - Switchboard Manual Turnout Control

This is video 5 in the Using iTrain Tutorial Series. In this video we will use the Switchboard Editor to create a beginning of a new layout and control the turnouts from the iTrain Switchboard. Note: in the video I use the APPLY button to save the changes before exiting. You can also use the SAVE button to do the same thing, with the added benefit that it also saves the changes to the .tcdz file, so it is perhaps a safer method than the APPLY button. I also tried to experiment with various different types of mouse cursor to make it easier to follow the mouse movements, but the other cursors were worse!! So I will stay with the one shown. 00:30 – Start iTrain and open project 01:11 – Creating a new switchboard whilst retaining Locomotives & Trains 02:38 – Editing the Switchboard 03:26 – Diagram of Test Track for Tutorials 04:25 – Enlarging the grid space 05:09 – Drawing the mainline track 06:08 – Drawing the sidings 06:42 – Drawing the left-hand turnouts 07:32 – Drawing the right-hand turnouts 08:12 – Drawing the curves 08:52 – Drawing the buffers 09:39 – Naming and addressing the turnouts 12:50 – Applying / Saving the Switchboard 14:17 – Testing the turnout addressing and function on the layout – video insert 15:04 – Testing by moving trains over turnouts – video insert