Activating The Crewtalk Dialog And Towercom Announcements - Lionel VISION ATSF 3000 2-10-10-2 Owner's Manual

LEGACY Control System operations

Activating the CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements

W
ith the LEGACY RailSounds sound system, CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom
announcements feature a variety of brief radio conversations between the engineer and
dispatcher. All dialog is intelligible, and each comment is followed by at least one automatic
response.
CrewTalk dialog is an engineer-initiated radio conversation with the dispatcher. TowerCom
announcements are a dispatcher-initiated radio conversation with the engineer. Be sure to
listen for the different combinations of words and phrases that comprise these exchanges.
Refer to Table 1 below for the dialog commands. The dialog in the table provides examples
of the conversations you can trigger. The actual dialog will vary.
Locomotive
Stopped
Moving
*
Activating
for 30 seconds. If the train stops within this time, pressing
conversation.
Table 1. LEGACY Remote Controller dialog commands
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Commands Example dialog
AUX1, Crew: Ask To Depart
Tower: Deny Departure
AUX1, Tower: Ask To Standby
Crew: Acknowledge
Crew: Ask To Depart
Tower: Approve Departure
Tower: Approve Departure
Crew: Acknowledge
Crew: Shutdown Announcement
Shutdown sequence
Tower: Approved For Arrival
*
Crew: Acknowledge
Crew: Ask If clear
Tower: Confirm All Clear
Tower: Order Emergencey Stop
Crew: Acknowledge
while the locomotive is in motion enables an arrival conversation
will play this special
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