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LocDialog General Tab.

The ID is used through out the Rocrail program as unique key for referencing this locomotive and is therefore very important.

Note: With some command stations the ID in Rocrail must match exactly the one on the command station. See the wiki page of the relevant command station for details, if applicable.

The Short ID is used for showing this loco on a throttle display. It is free text and optional.
Select in the locomotive tab context menu “Set Short ID” to write this to the command station. Activate menu item “Control→Transmit Short IDs” to transfer all previous set Short IDs to a connected throttle.
(OpenDCC and Roco only)

Also called Railroad Road Name.

Road number of the locomotive for the given Road Name.

Free text to describe your locomotive which is only used for display. Optional.
Mostly used for manufacturer and type information.

The loco image file name selected by clicking the image which opens a File Dialog to select one. A small set of default images are included with Rocrail, but you can create your own images and then use them.

Images should be 230 pixels wide by 80 pixels maximum, and in one of the supported formats.

Supported formats:

• PNG (preferred)
• GIF
• XPM

Note that there is a growing library of user-contributed images available in the Rocrail forums at http://forum.rocrail.net/album_cat.php?cat_id=1. If you create custom loc images, please upload them to share with other Rocrail users.

Some Control Stations, like Massoth, needs an image number for showing the right picture on the hand held.

No block fit checking is done if this field is left to zero. To prevent running in a block too short for the train it is wise to set this value to it's real length (Length = length of the locomotive plus length of all Cars) and also set the length in all Blocks.
The unit, e.g. cm or inch, is user-defined but has to be the same for all length definitions throughout Rocrail, i.e. Block Length and Automatic Settings.

The second field is for the number of cars of this consist. Used for car counting in routes.

Only for your records and is nowhere displayed jet.

HTTP link to the user's guide of this locomotive. Pushing the triple dot button will open the default WEB browser with the specified page.

Only for your records and is nowhere displayed jet.

This value ist set by Rocrail and is the elapsed time the locomotive has run.

Or OID, Object Identity, is used by several BiDi systems like RailCom, RFID, Lissy, Transponding and so on.
The RFID notation in Rocrail 3460+ has been changed, see CAN-GC4 RFID Notation
This field can be left empty if the identifier equals the loco address. (RailCom)

Last maintenance time.

Maintenance interval in hours.

Sets the maintenance time equal to the run time.
This button will have a red background if the difference between the run time and maintenance time is greater than the maintenance interval.

The loco ID in the locoTab will be red if a Loco needs maintenance.

Free text for making notes.

Enable to transmit the short ID to a throttle. The throttle number can be specified between 0 and 255.

See Actions for more details.
Loco actions are related to movement and functions: run, stall, min, mid, cruise, max, lights, f1-f28.
(Functions added in revision 3192.)