Second Life Railroad/SLRR Switch

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Description

On the following page you find a concept of how a semi automated rail switch system could help users switch track.

Background information

On the Northern Continent there are a few sections of railway lines. Some are under construction by the LDPW and other are in full operation. At the moment none of the 'Branch lines' or 'Pass tracks' are connected to each other. This is because there are no switch points to go from one track (guide rail) to an other.

Having the ability to switch from one track to the other is an essential part of any rail network. This can be done in many different ways. It depends on the type of guidance used to make the train move along the tracks. But also on the type of trains that use the system.

• One way to construct a switch point is to make a fully automated system that know where trains are on the line and sets the switches accordingly. This is not desirable because that would greatly limit the freedom of the users of the SLRR tracks.
• An other way is to construct a manual switch point. Giving the ability of user to choose what track they want to ride next. Either by e.g. a chat command or a touch to a control box. This may also not be fully desirable because this would give grievers the ability to derail SLRR users.
• A third option to construct a switch is a semi automated way. This would give even inexperienced SLRR user the ability to ride the SLRR tracks and the more experienced users full control over where they wanted to go.

On this page we are going to show a concept of an semi automated switch.

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Source

The above information was collected by the Second Life Railway Consortium (SLRC) Tuliptree (107, 131, 30) with the help of Stryker Jenkins, Moundsa Mayo and Qie Niangao.

Linden Lab is currently the "operator" of the SLRR track. The SLRC collected existing data for these wiki pages but did not set any standards. They evolved over time as Linden Lab employees constructed the Second Life Railroad.

Also See

• Second_Life_Railroad (main page)
• SLRR standards
• Wikipedia: Rail gauge