Laying Train Simulator easement track in twisty branch lines
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2024
- How I lay easement track in the twisty, high gradient branch lines in the TS2018 route 'The Railways of Devon and Cornwall'. There will be other ways, but this works for me.
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A couple weeks ago I visited south east England (from Germany) by car and coincidental drove over the A38. I right away recognized the location from this video as I watched it a couple months earlier. The section of this route at that point is very noticeable.
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Very helpful. Thanks! I like the pilot track technique. Also didn't realise you can change the track type after by selecting, so that's helpful!
This tutorial is, by far, the best I have seen in the explanation of using an overlay for laying track. So many tutorial leave out those little details that have become second nature and unfortunately are left out. I have learned more from this tutorial regarding laying track on an overlay, than from all the others put together. Don't get me wrong, all of the tutorials are very helpful, and I respect work all of you guys are doing, but you went that extra mile that I needed. Thank you.
Brilliant tutorial! One tip is if you're unsure about track placement, go under the terrain and place the track in line with map but not finishing perfectly to the point. Afterwards, start the curvature as a junction and cut off the left over off. Also, I use the snap completely and once I'm sure, I re-import the terrain and tidy up the embankments. Keep up with the good work!
superb video for a very tricky subject...... any info on how to reduce canting on some overtight slow speed sections made with a yard track rule template, other than building a unique track rule from scratch?
You would need a new track rule Malcolm. Or perhaps don't use superelevation. I don't use it where the degree of superelevation would be too large.
You make it look so easy! Amazing work guys so impressive!
Thanks! It's the preparation (research about gradients, field trips, Google earth, internet searches), the fiddling back and forth with your mouse to check track plot options, trying different points of view when doing this, and the ability to use different track styles that people often don't fully grasp. Practice, practice, practice!
@@spoerers from the pictures from your High Speed Tracks page so far it looks absolutely perfect and the views are stunning!
Thank you for all you have put into it.
I am in the USA where the grade of the rail is measured in percent of grade. 0.0% of course means level ground. A listing of -0.02 means 2/10 of a foot drop in 100 feet and -1.02 would be a decent of -1.02 feet over a distance of 100 feet of rail.
My question is, is there a formula or a calculation list to show how to transfer this to the gradient numbers from TS 2020? For example, when you were using a gradient of -44. What would that be in the
U. S. grade calculation? I remember a comparison when using the Microsoft train sim but I can' locate it in my records.
I live in New Orleans, LA and I'm slowly working on my version of the Huey P. Long bridge, I found something that reference its 1.5% and topped off a 52 meters clearance. It was a butt-kicker trying to get the numbers close enough where the train didn't look like it was struggling.
Try this: www.1728.org/gradient.htm
have you ever had the problem where google maps move when you come back to building your route cause it bloody annoying when it does that to me
Yes! I always get that!!! Never knew why, but I used to have it on the 64 bit and the old version as well!
No - I've never had that happen. That would be very frustrating!
excellent video even after two years later it is still very helpful. However I do have a question for you I understand that the DEM files are not that spot on but when I lay my track using the track charts I end up carven and giant canyon through my terrain. Since I am using US plan so I have converted the gradient to metric before I started. the station elevation is 188ft and the track is at 190ft however when I put in the track gradient it is way below that. Any info you can provide that I am doing wrong would be very helpful
Thank you. Topography created by the DEM files is very very rarely right! Hills are normally too low and valley floors are normally too high - everything is smoothed out, often far, far too much. This can be a serious problem in TS modelling areas like Devon and Cornwall, which are both covered in hills and valleys. So it's not surprising that track often ends up flying high or underground if you lay track in a linear way from your start point to the end. Remember that this is a simulation - you will have to make compromises because of the DEMs. My way of dealing with this is to start laying track from various places along the route and use sections of non-easement track to join them up. You WILL get some incorrect gradients and non-superelevated lengths of track as a result, but that's amongst the compromises you have to make, and anyway turnouts can't be superelevated so you can use junctions and station areas etc as your join points. Choose starting places half way up a hill - they are the most likely to be correct, or near correct. Places at the bottom of valleys or near the top of hills will be the least likely to be correct.
Do you have a tutorial on how to come off a curve and lay about 10 miles of strait track above an overlay that is still on the mark at the other end?
Not specifically, but I can certainly confirm that it can be very tricky to achieve this. You have to play back and forth with the leading edge of the track, look for the yellow straight line, see the impact of stopping the leading edge in different places and keep going by trial and error. You will eventually achieve the line you need. I can think of where I had to do this in the Somerset Levels, and it was indeed a complete nightmare to achieve the correct line for several miles of following straight track. I don't think there's an easy way to do it while retaining easement track except by repeated trial and error. If you get completely stuck I suggest that you turn off easement close to the end of the curve, lay the straight track as needed ahead of the curve, and then join the curved track to it in the normal non-easement way. It sometimes takes a couple of tracklaying clicks for easement to stop, but it will eventually. You won't be able to use superelevation into the straight, but if you get stuck and take this approach that would be the compromise you would have to make. I hope that helps!
I've been working on my route since 2013 and I have many sections with the long straight track. What I find that works is really a 2 part but I'll tell you the easier one. Layout several lengths of straight track. By default, it's 500 meters, as the track comes off the curve make it a little longer than needed at the same radius. connect the straight sections the length and take note of the drift off-center. Then go back to the curve track and cut about a half meter and reconnect again. It's trial and error but it works. Now if you have to put turnouts and crossings, take care of the straight track from end to end then come back and put in the turnouts and crossings.
Is there anyway to import a line created in MSTS?
Not that I know of.
Brilliant video really found it useful on laying easement track! I was wondering how do you connect track with easement? So say you start building a diverging route that connects further down the line. I've laid pilot track and when I go to replace with easement is it possible to connect the two or will I have to just connect in the normal way?
Also being cheeky can I ask if it's possible to do a tutorial on terrain editing and how you go about editing the terrain in your route after importing the DEM files to get an accurate looking route.
Sorry it's taken so long to reply! In short, and as you know by now I expect, you can't connect easement track to previously laid track. You just have to turn easement off and lose superelevation in the relevant sections. Sometimes you have to compromise (andf remember that it's only a simulation :-))! I did a tutorial on cuttings that you can see here: th-cam.com/video/Qq2uKn7a_Mo/w-d-xo.html . I'm in the process of creating a DEM tutorial involving correcting terrain under a high Cornish viaduct. Look out for it!
Do you have more tutorials?
hello sir ... can you make a video that from basic that how to lay tracks with complete detail explanation
Try this one: th-cam.com/video/LF6DDeagk7Q/w-d-xo.html