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Rail Simulator - Tracklaying 101: How NOT to lay track

by Jim "Sniper" Ward

Or, "The Idiot's Guide to Being An Idiot - Things That Go Bump In The Daytime."

Fooling around trying to make a reverse loop the lab kept blowing up, missed seeing this Sherman's Necktie until I drove right over it.

No derailment, so apparently the physics can handle some pretty rough track joins. Well, no harm in leaving it there since this is an experimental route that will be trashed before I start over from scratch. But as long as we're experimenting, what if that happens on a route I want to keep?


Split tool, click on the track to split into seperate sections at that point. Next step could be click over a few feet and make a small section and cut it out (delete), but what happens if we try to align with the gradient tool?

Select Gradient tool in the upper window, a little doohickey appears. Click on the doohickey to raise and lower, in this case I had Snap To Track enabled, so as soon as I clicked on it it automatically aligned.

Then select the weld tool, click on the gray box to get rid of the buffers and weld the rails back together.

All fixed, easy as falling off a rail.

15 Nov 2007