The Train Throttle Blog

I got out some older trains this past weekend, and one of them was a trolley. My thoughts immediately turned to using the shuttle mode, when I realized something - this particular trolley has a "stop requested" feature, where you can press the "7" button on your DCC controller and it will stop, play some sounds, and start up again. How cool is that‽ I know that some MTH engines also have this feature too.

It's fundamentially at odds with my shuttle mode, and yet it seems like it should compliment shuttle mode. Off to xcode I go - I will add another mode, a "play a sound every X seconds" mode, so my trolley can pick up people when it feels like it. It will be similar to shuttle mode, but won't stop or reverse the train. I think it will be really cool.

Expect this release to hit the app store sometime in September....

It's been quiet… too quiet. So I figured now is a good time to make an update.

I've added a prompt that will ask you if you'd like to put the app into dark mode when the battery is at 20%. This will be out whenever I publish the next update to the app store, most likely towards the end of the summer.

That's all I've got. I'll leave you with my new favorite train video on youtube....

One of the best parts of this hobby is that you can tailor your hobby time to what you feel like doing in a given moment.

I took a break tonight to program an SD60E that I've had sitting on a shelf for the better part of two years.

It's not quite the same as working on connectivity options within Train Throttle, or refactoring the codebase, but it's enjoyable all the same.