dx5517
03-01-2008, 12:16 AM
I'm getting myself into the KRS UK Version with a vengeance, trying to pick up as much as possible in a short time. I'm doing pretty well as it is, but track laying seems to be getting my goat !! The new sections of track always want to go either straight ahead, or to the left, but I can't make them go to the right at all. How is this archieved ? I have the Mk1 upgrade, and the no-bufferstop track rule installed (although I stronglt suspect that there's an invisible bufferstop at the ends of the no-buffer tracks, because a steam loco bumped into an invisible object and stopped dead from about 1.5 mph at the very end of a section of track. Have I got somehing wrong with my installation that's preventing my track pieces from veering right ?
I want to know if the "Weld" command will visibly show anything when you use it. I'm currently using the Oxford Wood, Oily track with no buffers. Track laying seems OK but when I want to use the "Join" command to get a section of track hooked up with another piece's end, then the opposite end of the new track section comes away from the last piece, leaving a gap.
Does "Weld" ing happen to prevent these breakaways from the other end of your newly-laid tracks, or what ? How do you REALLY weld track sections ?
And what do you actually have to write into the space in the bottom Fly-Out menu, where it normally says "0.000" in order to start creating a gentle grade in the tracks ? I try this and put in something like 1.50 for what I thought was 1 in 50 or 2.000 for 2 percent, which is the same as far as I know, and the next assumed piece of track veers upwards at an alarming angle, looking rediculous !! (Almost near-vertical).
Does anyone happen to know which British colour light signals will mimic the signal ahead, as if you have a short branchline with industries on it, and you have a signal about halfway along it (if it's only, say 2 kilometres long) to tell you (if possible) the indication of the exit signal near the points or switch to join the mainline again on the way back out. Are there any signals that will show you the indication, or, at least a yellow light if the exit signal is at danger ?
I'm keen to know the answers to these queries if anyone can please offer some help here, and I'm then well on my way to getting more and more worked out, with the test route I'm currently working on, and I'm serious about it, wanting to get these items learnt before proceeding on to the next thing, like making a tunnel or river gorge etc. So this is why I need answers quickly from those out there who've managed to gain knowledge, either themselves, or with the help of others - no shame in asking, is there ? :)
Regards...
Jim McDermott
I want to know if the "Weld" command will visibly show anything when you use it. I'm currently using the Oxford Wood, Oily track with no buffers. Track laying seems OK but when I want to use the "Join" command to get a section of track hooked up with another piece's end, then the opposite end of the new track section comes away from the last piece, leaving a gap.
Does "Weld" ing happen to prevent these breakaways from the other end of your newly-laid tracks, or what ? How do you REALLY weld track sections ?
And what do you actually have to write into the space in the bottom Fly-Out menu, where it normally says "0.000" in order to start creating a gentle grade in the tracks ? I try this and put in something like 1.50 for what I thought was 1 in 50 or 2.000 for 2 percent, which is the same as far as I know, and the next assumed piece of track veers upwards at an alarming angle, looking rediculous !! (Almost near-vertical).
Does anyone happen to know which British colour light signals will mimic the signal ahead, as if you have a short branchline with industries on it, and you have a signal about halfway along it (if it's only, say 2 kilometres long) to tell you (if possible) the indication of the exit signal near the points or switch to join the mainline again on the way back out. Are there any signals that will show you the indication, or, at least a yellow light if the exit signal is at danger ?
I'm keen to know the answers to these queries if anyone can please offer some help here, and I'm then well on my way to getting more and more worked out, with the test route I'm currently working on, and I'm serious about it, wanting to get these items learnt before proceeding on to the next thing, like making a tunnel or river gorge etc. So this is why I need answers quickly from those out there who've managed to gain knowledge, either themselves, or with the help of others - no shame in asking, is there ? :)
Regards...
Jim McDermott