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Title: New York City Subway Signals
Post by: dannyman on November 18, 2015, 09:35:27 PM
Some fascinating content that brought to mind jamespetts' signalling project in -Experimental

Why there are no countdown clocks: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-dont-we-know-where-all-the-trains-are/415152/

Links to ...

NXSYS: Simulate New York City Subway interlocking on Windows, Mac: http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/NXSYS,_Signalling_and_Interlocking_Simulator

A great video that explains fixed-block signalling and efforts to upgrade century-old signalling to CTBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA

I figured this is the crowd likely to enjoy this content. :)

Cheers,
-danny
Title: Re: New York City Subway Signals
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on November 18, 2015, 10:13:03 PM
That was amazing. Halfway through, I thought — I have to share this with Simutrans! — then remembered that's where I came from. hehe.