Now a question?

[landnrailroader]

Colleagues,

The instructions in some of the video tutorials state that when the track is aligned
as straight track, the outline should change from white to yellow. Well at no time
does this occur, when I am laying track and therefore what should be straight, is not.

Is there some setting, button, or ? that turns this feature off. I am using Sniper's track rules file which he put in our midst some days ago so as to produce curves tighter than 500 meters, but I have experimented with other rules files and get the same result and since we are advised to use only one rules file in a route, I always return to the Sniper file.

landnrailroader

[Paddington bear]

HI,

While doing any track laying, if you hold the Ctrl key down at the same time and move the mouse back and forth across line of the curve from one side to the other (bad explaination) then at the moment it is "straight" the white will turn yellow indicationg you have straight track. you can release the Ctrl key and extend the track straight. It is not an "on" or "off" facility, is there any time you press tyhe Cntrl key while track laying.

Ross

[livercup]

If you have the easment button selected the track will not turn yellow, at least for me.
Tom

[Paddington bear]

Hi,

Whats the "easment " button?

Ross

[Max Payne]

Hi,

Whats the "easment " button?

Ross
how do you get the turn table to work witch key is it

[livercup]

The easements check box is the ram horn looking thing. I misstated that anyway, it is the snap to track button that takes away the yellow straight feature ( horseshoe magnet over track button ).

[Max Payne]

The easements check box is the ram horn looking thing. I misstated that anyway, it is the snap to track button that takes away the yellow straight feature ( horseshoe magnet over track button ).
what does it look like

[livercup]

horse shoe magnet hovering over railroad track. It is in the bottom left hand fly out.

[Paddington bear]

hi,
Ok, got that one identified,Thanks for the info. Have never used the "easement" button thingy, something else to discover.

I have snap to track checked all the time, but NOT the snap to terrain which is to the left of it. Is the only way I can get the track to join up when doing the fiddly bits caused by alterations. Gives me the yellow lines any time I use the Cntrl key and the track is "straight" . I will have to experiment with turning Snap to track OFF and see if the yellow facility disappears.

Snap to track OFF gives me the yellow line when ever I take the curved white lines slowly across what would be straight, no need for Cntrl key. Mind you the track didn't join up when I tried filling a gap, so it's Snap to track on for me.

Ross

[Paddington bear]

hi,

Max Payne, I have no idea. I have never even placed a turn table let alone get one to work.
The info must be around , try searching uktrainsim.

Ross

[landnrailroader]

Even with snap to track on, filling a gap can be a thrill. I had no problem
creating an approximatley #10 ladder on one end of the small yard, at Clifton Forge,
but at the other end, because it was in a curve and all, I had more of a thrill. Got it
done, but now I must relay about 1/2 mile of track beyond that point as that will be
easier than trying to fill a gap that is on a 1:600 grade.

Further on, it is going to be interesting to see if I can lay an approximately #20 EQUILATERAL turnout. I believe it will work since turnouts just seem to snap together. This type of turnout is often found at the end of double track and when one is
used with a #20 frog, the diverging angle for either track is eqivalent to a #40 and
such turnouts are usually rated 50mph or more. Clifton Forge Yard extends for several
miles and the part that you saw in the earlier image is just a trivial junction at the
east end that used to be much more important. What is now the Buckingham branch was once the passenger main for the C&O and I have rode the GeorgeWashington over it 5 or 6 times when I worked for the Southern.

I wonder---if one accidently lays a turnout with "manual junction" turned on, is there anyway, short of relaying the turnout, to change it to a automatic or powered turnout?

landnrailroader

[sniper297]

Use the split tool at the red triangle where the switch joins, turn off the manual junction thing, select the weld tool and reweld the switch. For yard ladders;

http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/showpost.php?p=1341056&postcount=28

Best way is to make sure the base of the yellow ball (well I guess it's a cube now) is just beyond the guiderails, put it in the same approximate position for each succeeding switch and make the curve length and radius the same for each. Obviously gonna need a little experimenting with the radius, length, and spacing to get the yard track spacing you want.