The Randall Museum in San Francisco hosts a large HO-scale model model railroad. Created by the Golden Gate Model Railroad Club starting in 1961, the layout was donated to the Museum in 2015. Since then I have started automatizing trains running on the layout. I am also the model railroad maintainer. This blog describes various updates on the Randall project and I maintain a separate blog for all my electronics not directly related to Randall.
2024-05-31 - Valley Panel Tablet
Category RandallI’ve reinstalled the tablet by the Stockton Yard’s Valley Panel:
It had been out of commission for a while -- it wasn’t booting, that has been fixed. I also updated the RTAC software to work with the latest Conductor 2.
There’s a similar tablet in the front to show the currently running train to the public.
This one is for the Saturday Operators. They can see the state of the automation (whether it’s on, off, or in error), and when one swipes on the right pane, a map is displayed that shows the state of the track occupancy sensors:
