Originally posted by TS on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jan 27, 2015Hi Jacob,
Thanks for having us all
I'd look forward to seeing a video. I think a more extensive video is
needed on MU than highlighting, which is covered well in a video by
Freewake84 on Youtube. In fact both his videos are quite good. For those
that have not seen them here are the links.
Getting back to the topic at hand, your idea is certainly workable but
not the ideal solution, the loco depot can be many kilometres/miles
from the yard, you might even be running a light engine movement up
a branch line (could be 100 km/miles) to collect your train. It sounds
like a nifty feature that shouldn't be hard to program would be a
"reverse MU" function (geez, it's hard not to use DCC parlance and
call it a consist after so long!).
I can also see other operations that would need it, specifically
passenger trains with a locomotive on each end (push-pull), DMU's when
MU'ed together.
I have to stop now, the more I talk about it the more I want something
that can't be had.
Tim
Land of OZ