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<h1 id="Top">Using JMRI® to Operate Trains</h1>
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<h2>A Trip through Operations</h2>
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<p><a href="Ops_Trains.shtml">Previous</a>
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<p>Well, now that we've had an overview of OperationsPro, let's see if we can make it work.
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We could sit down and enter a whole bunch of information into the Locations, Cars, Engines,
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Routes and Trains screens or do it the easy way and use the built-in Demo Railroad. Since
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this is a training (pun intended) exercise, we'll use the Demo files.<br>
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To get the demo files loaded, go to the JMRI main menu and click on <strong>Tools</strong>,
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scroll all the way to the bottom to select Operations (or pick the Operations menu if set in
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Operations settings), and slide sideways to select Settings. On the Operations Settings
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screen select the Tools menu and then select Load Demo Files. DecoderPro® will need to
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restart.</p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations01.png" width="778" height="608" alt="">
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<p>Now go back to the DecoderPro main menu to quit and then re-start the program. This will
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load the Demo files. When the program presents the main JMRI screen, click on Tools menu,
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scroll all the way to the bottom to select Operations, and it expands to the Operations menu.
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Select Locations which opens and displays the Location window as shown below. All of the
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locations are shown as a list sorted by <strong>Name.</strong></p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations02.png" width="670" height="245" alt="">
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<p>If you select Lakeview and click on the Edit box way over on the right of the entry for
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Lakeview, you'll see a screen like that below, Edit Location, showing that Lakeview is a
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staging area that can accommodate almost any kind of car. This will be the starting point for
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our mythical trip.</p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations03.png" width="766" height="577" alt=
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"location Edit">
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<p>We will now exit <strong>Edit Location</strong> window that describes location Lakeview
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Staging Area, by clicking the window close icon (red X) in the upper right corner of the
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window. Also close the <strong>Locations</strong> window in the same manner.</p>
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<p>Now, let's take a look at what resources are available to make up our train. Open the Cars
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window from the Operations menu. The Cars window now lists all the cars that are in the
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OperationsPro database and can be chosen to make up a train, so many that there's a scrollbar
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on the right to scroll through the list. Again clicking on the Edit box on the right we could
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see the specifics of any one car and of course Edit the data (if it was our own). We won't
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bother.</p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations04.png" width="900" height="486" alt="">
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<p>Of course, we'll need Motive Power to pull our train, so let's look at what's in the
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Locomotives Table.</p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations05.png" width="900" height="453" alt="">
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<p>Since we know we're departing from <strong>Lakeview</strong> we probably want to eyeball
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that pair of <strong>Trainmasters</strong> sitting over on track <strong>#97.</strong> The
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Command Station on our Demo railroad is obviously an NCE product because these locos are
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assigned <strong>NCE consist #118.</strong></p>
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<p>So how does Operations REALLY work? Well, once you have all the data entered as we've seen
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above, we can generate a set of manifests for the train operations. To do this we use the
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Trains window. Select <strong>Trains</strong> from the <strong>Operations</strong> menu and
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the <strong>Trains</strong> window will display.</p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations06.png" width="899" height="358" alt="">
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<p>Here there are several trains ready to build. The highlighted train is <strong>LBX from
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Lakeview to Bakersfield</strong>. By putting a check mark in the box in the Build column and
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then clicking the <span class="textbutton">Build</span> button at
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the bottom of the screen we were able to get the manifest built so that we can preview it.
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It's a short run, but still takes more than one page of fine print instructions for the
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crew.</p>
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations07.png" width="900" height="1169" alt=
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<p class="ops-center"><img src="images/Ops_Operations08.png" width="900" height="472" alt="">
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<p>We pick up our locomotives in Lakeview and head over to the yard to gather up a bunch of
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cars and a caboose. Then we get ready to depart at 7:10 on the fast clock. We should arrive
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at Farmington at 7:14, and since there were no Farmington bound cars in Lakeview, and nothing
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in Farmington bound for Hillsboro or Bakersfield, the program has scheduled no work to do at
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Farmington. So we'll keep going. When we arrive at Hillsboro (hopefully at 7:18), we have
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some set-outs and pick-ups to attend to. Then, we're off to Bakersfield, gliding through
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Danville and Port Arthur on the way. Arriving at Bakersfield right on time at 8:21, we drop
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the boxcar at Heritage Furniture, the Coalhopper in the yard, and slide the caboose gently
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into the caboose track. Now we can take the motive power over to the locomotive terminal and
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call in to Dispatch asking for the trip to be terminated.<br>
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The trip is terminated by selecting it in the Trains screen and clicking the terminate
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button. This would then enter the new locations of the rolling stock into the data screens
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and release them for the next build.<br>
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So that wasn't so difficult, was it? Hope you enjoyed your cab ride.</p>
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