 My name's Bob Bucklew. In the article in Model Railroad Hobbius, I described how I use jammer-eye and engine driver to create virtual signals for my Quaker Valley railroad. In this video, I'd like to show you how those elements come together during an operating session. The original control panel on the Quaker Valley has been replaced now with a computer control panel. You see here on the left my laptop PC which runs jammer-eye for me. It's connected to the railroad to my NCE command station and it's also connected to a Wi-Fi router now so that I can run engine driver. On the right is an HP touchscreen and I've created two control panels and using the touchscreen I can switch between either one so I kind of double the space that I use on the railroad. I can use this Quaker Valley panel to control the turnouts on the railroad just by touching the lever and switches and throw a turnout on the layout. So one of the first things I did after receiving an Android tablet for Christmas in 2012 was create a local panel. Just a subset of what I had already created in my CTC panel on the computer and as you can see here, there's indicated a number of main lines and signals and turnouts in the yard itself. Now take a look at the westbound signal in the center there. Well, that's the 14W. So this batcher is setting up that route for this westbound train to proceed through to Pittsburgh. But you see, there it goes, clear. So on the panel, you can clearly see it and the engineers can follow these local panels and run their trains according to the signal. So here comes that westbound train now running behind the yard at Lensburg. And as it goes into the interlocking here, we can see the turnout will, or the block indication will drop. There are the signal drops and we can actually see the TOLs here to indicate that the train's in the block moving through the block. I've been showing you the local panel on a 10 inch Android tablet that I got my wife for Christmas a year later. This past Christmas, I bought a couple of these smartphones. They're track phones I got at Kmart for under 20 bucks. Don't have a phone, plan with them. But as you can see, I've got engine driver on here. And the nice thing I like about this is you can turn this sideways and bring up the signals for the railroad. This is something that Steve Todd has added to it. So, but for the rest of this demo, I'm going to show you this with a seven inch tablet. It's a little bigger than you normally would use for a throttle, but it'll video a little bit better than this handheld smartphone. So there's the 10 inch tablet and a little closer here, the seven inch tablet. And you can see I've got it in the horizontal or landscape position and you can see the signals at CP Laurel. I'll show you how those operate. This is running engine driver and when you turn the throttle back to the portrait position, you get the throttle so you can select your local, run your local, hit all your buttons, you know, your horn and light and the like. So I've jumped with the camera over to a place I call Laurel West. And if you notice, we're looking down the track here. It's a double track mainline on my quicker valley. It's actually the Conrail mainline heading. We're looking away from Altoona heading west here where the trains would travel towards Pittsburgh. And you notice the signal bridge has no signals on it. Well, I took a digital picture as I described in the article of this location with the signal bridge and empty. And then when we take a look at what we've done, you know, here's that same location in engine driver and we're showing the panel and it shows the signals in the stop position on both tracks. So the way this would work on the quicker valley during an operating session is dispatchers radio control or contact with each of the road engines. And so it might start something like this. CAPI dispatch. Dispatch answering CAPI. CAPI is ready to depart Altoona westward to Pittsburgh. No work in route. Roger CAPI. CAPI has permission from Altoona to the CP Laurel West and follow signal indication in CP Laurel West. Roger, CAPI out. So while CAPI is getting ready to leave staging in Altoona, the dispatcher will set up the signal. There you can see on the right track there, the dispatcher set up a signal for CAPI to proceed and indicating a clear, which means that the next block is also clear, that they'll get at least an approach at the next signal. Oh, and notice too on the left signal on track two there, the dispatcher has set up a restricting, which indicates that the train is coming up beside CAPI here out of our anole yard is gonna do some work. It's actually going into Linsburg in the restricting signal because it's entering the yard and needs to be prepared for any kind of movement in the yard. So as the CAPI comes up to the Laurel interlocking and enters the interlocking, it trips the next block and you'll see the signal drop there and on she goes. The nice thing is we can go on with the new thing. We can hit the next panel, go on and see the signal at our next spot. So we've got an approach so we know we can kind of keep on going with our CAPI and head west. So as the train approaches the highway bridge at CP Lynn, we'll see the signal we have an approach there. And as the train proceeds through into the interlocking, occupies the next block. There we go, signals dropped to a stop. And so the train engineer on the train knows that he's got to stop at the next signal. So using J.M. Rai and your imagination, you can kind of do just about anything. So here you see what I call quicker junction where the single track quicker valley main comes down in the back, joining up with the double track Conrail line. You see there's an empty signal bridge here. Of course, there's no signals in real life yet. That'll happen in a few years. I get more time and more money to get them in place. Of course, what's the engineer sees on the engine driver here at this location is quite different. As you can see, the signal bridge is fully populated, including a stop signal on the pocket track on the right side where the engines are idling. But you see a restricting signal from two track into the yard. On the left side, a triple mast coming off the Quaker Valley main and showing an approach down into the station. So I hope you've enjoyed this demonstration of J.M. Rai and the engine driver technology that we use here on the Quaker Valley. Make things look a little bit more realistic for our engineers. Check out the article in Monterey Road Hobbiest. And if you have questions, email me at bob at quaker-valley.com. Take care.