Only experience I have is that a friend of mine used it to automate multiple trolleys in a loop around his town. He has a block detector and divided the loop into 16 sections. We tried with JMRI and had no success, it would run a short time but then spurious detections would be reported and mess the whole thing up. He downloaded a trial of RR&Co and the next week when I went back he had the whole thing working. ANd he's NOT a computer guy. For automation tasks, I'd say RR&Co is probbaly worth the cost if you aren't a computer person. I forget which version he's using - I think SIlver. Gold is for those trying to recreate Miniatuar Wunderland.
--Randy
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RR&Co's TrainController is about as close to a "ready-made" railroad automation software package as you're likely to find. However, for the Gold edition (which is required to reach that level of automation) you'll pay dearly, as it's quite expensive.
If you're willing to manually do yourself some of the software setup that RR&Co does automatically, JMRI is much cheaper, as in free.
TrainController software is a German based package developed by Freiwald Software. From what I understand it enables automated control for multi train, accessory, operation. All done by a pc or other wifi capability. I believe they offer 3 levels which are expansion options. Interested if anyone has any experience or even familiarization. Thanks
Don