> I do imagine these panels must have been interactive with all the buttons?
"Spurplan" (roughly "track plan") signalling control panel. To allow a train from point A to point B, you hold down the button at A and then press B. If there's no conflicts, it will set the switches along the way, lock the route (so you can't set a route that interferes) and then "open the signal", as they say in German, at point A.
This was a customizable system built out of standard components, which served its purpose well for a long time. Point your favorite translation tool at <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaisstellwerk" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaisstellwerk for more details, or <a href="http://www.stellwerke.de/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stellwerke.de/ if you want to go down a rabbit hole.
> Rotte [And I believe this was a way to annotate that something was… fixed, maybe? Or on its way to being fixed?]
Rotte = work gang. Reminder tag to not send a train down there.
red_admiral · · focus · HN ↗
"Spurplan" (roughly "track plan") signalling control panel. To allow a train from point A to point B, you hold down the button at A and then press B. If there's no conflicts, it will set the switches along the way, lock the route (so you can't set a route that interferes) and then "open the signal", as they say in German, at point A.
This was a customizable system built out of standard components, which served its purpose well for a long time. Point your favorite translation tool at <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaisstellwerk" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaisstellwerk for more details, or <a href="http://www.stellwerke.de/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stellwerke.de/ if you want to go down a rabbit hole.
> Rotte [And I believe this was a way to annotate that something was… fixed, maybe? Or on its way to being fixed?]
Rotte = work gang. Reminder tag to not send a train down there.
pseudohadamard · · focus · HN ↗
(Rotte was a formation of fighters, making up a Schwarm, and then a Staffel, the standard unit of fighters during WWII).