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Activating the CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements in
the Command Control environment
W
ith the RailSounds 5.0 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
Commands
Example dialog
AUX1, 2
Crew: Can we go?
Tower: No, please standby
AUX1, 7
Tower: Stand by for clearance.
Crew: Roger.
Stopped
2
Crew: Can we go?
Tower: Roger, you are clear.
7
Tower: You are clear for departure.
Crew: Roger, we are clear.
AUX1, 5
Crew: Signing off!
Shutdown sequence
AUX1, 2*
Crew: Train is arriving.
Tower: Roger, you are clear inbound.
AUX1, 7*
Tower: You are clear for arrival.
Crew: Roger.
Moving
2
Crew: Are we clear ahead?
Tower: You are all clear.
7
Tower: You are all clear.
Crew: Roger.
AUX1, 5
Tower: Come to an immediate stop.
Crew: We are stopping now.
5
Tower: Slow to caution speed.
Crew: Roger, slowing now.
* Activating either
AUX1, 2
or
AUX1, 7
while the locomotive is in motion enables a “train has now
arrived” conversation for 15 seconds. If the train stops within this time, pressing
2
or
7
will play this
special conversation.
Table 1. CAB-1 Remote Controller dialog commands
RailSounds 5.0 sound system operations
