LocoFi is claimed to be an "open standard":
So where can I find this standard - i.e. communcation protocol, so that one can write custom app to control multiple locomotives, or implement custom decoders that can communicate in the LocoFi protocol?
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So, I've been doing industrial control systems (that is, hardware and firmware, not actually running factories on them - the controls engineers buy my stuff and then do their systems) and I was really interested in OpenLCB.. right until I saw that it's basically CAN-bus with Ethernet bridges. Given the state of the industry, I don't see why one wouldn't just use a completely Ethernet based system, likely with something like MQTT as a message bus. Then you can have your head end be basically anything that talks MQTT - I'm looking at NodeRED on an RPi for panel control, because my son wants tactile things (no screens) and the drag and drop flow control would make programming it easy.
As far as integrating with the API, I'll be dropping you folks an email to the address above - I want to bounce some ideas off you in the above regard. It may make sense to implement callers / listeners to / from your API as a NodeRED module and then Bob's your uncle.