Triple and Quad Track...

[RobbersBaron]

Hello,

I've been checking out the maps, add-ons, and obviusly the TM sections (I spent the last 3 days downloading all the importaint TM files and then extra's, internet is slow) I was just playing the Dever and Western Scinario (cant spell it right today...) and noticed that in Cheyann and Salt Lake City, there was 4-6 Railtracks directly side-by-side. My question basically is, how did he do that? (I have been trying to be able to do that since I started playing RRT II and 3 (and now TM 1))


Thanks

[Hawk]

It can be done but it takes a little patience. You have to do it by laying short sections of track, extending one then the other.

[Wolverine@MSU]

And zooming way in, sometimes to the maximum allowed. Lay just a short piece of track at first, then you can zoom out a little and extend in both directions.

[Stoker]

You can also lay adjacent track by starting short segments in the correct alignment (both sides) a long way from your intended "yard" area, then dragging between those segments, this makes the track want to "glue" in the correct position. Then after you get the tracks running parallel and adjacent to each other, you erase the unwanted portions. There is a thread about this somewhere on the site.

[RobbersBaron]

k, thanks. I'll give some of those a try N' see I can made TM bend to my will.

[Altoona+BeachCreek]

That's great advice Hawk! It would be perfecr for my upcoming Pennsy scenario.

[cheminot]

In answer to a recent post by RobbersBaron and Hawk (jan 2011 -huh), laying triple or quad tracks is a mother of an enterprise
First, you can't lay one section of track, they have to be long enough to break from the point of origin. That makes really weird curves.
Second, you have to make another weird curve from that first 'sprite'. If you are lucky, you can pull a third section more or less the way you want.
Thirdly, erasing the unwanted parts will hit your wallet heavily.
I have tried, really tried and finally gave up.