RenegadeMonster wrote:Was on the set with control cab 1808 tonight. The one where I saw it was repeatedly scrolling "Now Arriving At Swapscott" this morning.
It was a Rockport Bond train, but tonight 1808 only displayed "Lowell". Not Rockport. Also, Car 815 was only displaying the "T" logo. I noticed there was a 200s, 600s and a 1600s between the 1808 and 815. I wonder if the 1600s was why the info wasn't being piped through. Though it appears this 1600s had its cab controls disabled. There were no horns on the roof.
BandA wrote:Is there a published specification for this "ASA computer" and the train signal cabling?
18.13.10. Terminals
A. Terminals and connections shall conform to the requirements of IEEE Std 16-2004
BandA wrote:How many pins on that standard copper cable that controls the doors, etc. I'm assuming the digital data is encoded in TCP/IP that is somehow superimposed on some of the older cabling, kinda like when they added ~800MHz internet signals onto cable TV ~400MHz coax.
Can't Google "ASA Computer" and get anything. There is a company with that name. This stuff is needed for ADA compliance everywhere, there should be a Railroad Presidential Conference standardizing it.
RenegadeMonster wrote:Are there any plans to add the electronic displays to the 900s cars before their midlife overhaul?
RenegadeMonster wrote: noticed something odd with ASA recently. Any train with a control cab that is a 1800s and has a 800s car where the Conducted likes to make manual announcements, the auto audio announcements will not fire if the conductor has his key in and the PA prepped and radio for him to talk. I'd imagine this would probably happen from the 1800s as well. The auto message still scrolls on the electronic display however.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:
Displays in the 900's may be a secondary priority to getting the cab-active 1600's equipped with the ASA computer to complete the fleetwide installations. Having whole-train remainders without any working ASA is a bigger accessibility issue than having individual cars without the displays, since the audio pumps just fine through the old cars so long as there's an ASA cab car attached. ASA has appeared on a couple of the Old Colony-assigned 1500-series cabs, so that's definitely going to be in the cards for the rest of the cab flats. They did not install displays on those 1500's, but that's not needed for accessibility compliance if there are display-equipped bi-levels somewhere in the consist. So it's doubtful they'll bother installing displays in all the trailer flats.
Trinnau wrote:Send it in to the Keolis customer service department. They can probably get it over to someone to look at.
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