First test drive — bus on magnetic track

Test drive of a bus on the magnetic track in the quarry test polygon. The purpose was to verify curve clearance with an extended chassis. This is the first long chassis on this track, so the key question was whether it would fit through the switchbacks at all. Manual control.

The bus has an issue with the front axle lifting the chassis in curves — currently unsolved due to the constraints of TT scale, but it´s in progress :)

Next step — automatic position tracking system. In traditional DCC, you only know that a train is somewhere within a block, not where exactly. This system aims to track vehicle position continuously along the entire route with reasonable accuracy, using hall sensor pairs as reference points and speed-based interpolation between them.