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Originally posted by kpack05 on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 3, 2015

Bill,

If you tap on the loco selection screen and select the following loco without unlinking them, you can indeed control the effects on that locomotive, but it does not become the leader.  You can check that by tapping the MU button.  The lead loco stays the same, regardless of which locomotive in the consist you have on your screen.

Honestly this doesn't affect much in the long run.  The locomotives still run fine even if the one in the direction of travel isn't the "leader".  I don't ever switch the leader when I'm switching.  Lots of back and forth and everything runs well regardless of which is the leader.

-Kevin

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Originally posted by TS on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 4, 2015

Your welcome Kevin.

Thank you for making them, they showed more of the capability of
the system than the official videos, and were the final "yes" to me
getting RailPro, which I did finally obtain (but still not installed
in anything - everything I have is just going to make a complicated
install sigh!).

I think a one button Change MU End would be a very useful feature.

Perhaps we should come up with a list of useful feature requests
here and submit them as a group to Ring. I'll go first:

1. One button Change MU end

Cheers,

Tim
Land of OZ

Archive:
Originally posted by William Brillinger on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 4, 2015

Why? I just don't understand the need for this.

Once the locos are MU's, simply choose the loco you want to control from
and "go".
Want to control from another loco, select it and "go".

Why does it matter which is first in the MU list?

- Bill

TS egroupstuff@eftel.net.au [RailProUsers] wrote on 6/4/2015 5:59 AM:
> I think a one button Change MU End would be a very useful feature.

Archive:
Originally posted by TS on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 4, 2015

Hi Bill,

I haven't been able to use my Railpro system yet so I'm just going off
what I've been able to piece together from bits and pieces from the
'net.

The situation is suppose your taking your 5 loco MU from the loco depot
to the yard and couple straight onto your train. Your little people
climb down and change ends (the rear of the MU is now the front of
the train) and drive off in the direction you came from, back past the
loco depot.

Since I've not seen or read anything about it is it as simple as
selecting the rear loco (which is the front of the train) and driving
off with the MU with all the lights, horns etc functioning from the
rear loco? or is it more complicated than that (like DCC is). If it's
all that simple then yes, we don't need a change ends function.

Cheers,

Tim
Land of OZ

Archive:
Originally posted by William Brillinger on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jun 4, 2015

Yes, it's that simple.

Choose the cab you want to operate and when you activate the horn, or lights, that's the one that goes.
The list of MU'd locos does not change, but you are effectively operating from the selected unit.

- Bill

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