How do you contact dispatch?

[ItzNari]

Recently i did a free roam on Rockwood and took the train from the siding, i couldn't go as far as a few feet as it told me to stop and contact dispatch before proceeding any further.

I did TAB and i got nothing, is that how you contact dispatch? Or is it something else?

[nickhawk]

There is no free roam in TSW, only service mode... if the train you take is sheduled for a time and you take it before that time the signals wont change. Only if you are right on time of your shedule.

[ItzNari]

Originally posted by nickhawk:

There is no free roam in TSW, only service mode... if the train you take is sheduled for a time and you take it before that time the signals wont change. Only if you are right on time of your shedule.

Sorry, i should've said Service Mode.

I also didn't get a "WAIT FOR SERVICE" sign.

[nickhawk]

You cant operate main line switches in service mode, so you never can pass a red signal without a route for your train. I guess you want to drive the train from rockwood siding to the mainline and stuck at the signal there?
Same thing in Cumberland, if you want to take a loco from the yard for a ride on the main line
wont work, you cant set a route for the train out of the yard and the signals stay red and the dispatcher wont let you pass a red signal.
Sadly this is how the service mode works, you only can drive the trains like in the shedule listet, nothing else.

A nice feature would be if you can take a loco in the cumberland yard couple some wagons behind it and let the dispatcher find a slot between sheduled trains to get you to your destination... but i dont think we will see this in TSW.