Mailbag: Modular industrial dashboards

My post about modular industrial dashboards from a month ago gathered a lot of reactions, so I thought I would summarize some fun things sent my way. If this didn’t seem interesting to you, feel free to skip this post! First of all, some clarifications for the things I speculated or didn’t explain well: The word “Rotte” (English: gang, pack) often designates a small number of people or crafts that operate together. In the railroad context, […] the “Rotte” flags inform the operators that there are people at work in that section and that traffic may need to be rerouted or slowed down. This switch I wondered about with Polish words for “Day” and “Night”… …is indeed a dark mode toggle! It controls how much light goes through these conduits: At night, you want them dimmer so they don’t blind you – but during the day you need to make them brighter so you can actually see them. And the counters are for recording abnormal things or exceptions, for example you directing a train to somewhere…

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