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I'd like to ask something that may vary from one country to another, and that's the gauge width. I cannot determine exactly which might be a narrow or standard gauge, because there are many different railways all over the world.But at least I'd like to know what are the gauges reproduced in MSTS, I think that "A" gauge is about 1,42 metres, (am I wrong?) and the "N" gauge is about 3 feet or a little bit more.But I need to know this because I need it to calculate where I am supposed to lay my tracks and to make them fit at the right place. Another important datum is the Radius: At each curved trackpiece or switch, the exact angle is coded in a part of its name, it's easy to identify, but:Is that the internal radius, the external, or the middle radius?I'm sorry to be touchy about this question, but after knowing this I'll do much better to build routes.Thanks in advance, and my best wishes for you all...
The width of the rails is not really determined by Trainsimulator. The Tsection.dat assumes the gauge to be 1.5m, but most of the developers assume Standard gauge to be 1.435m. MS itself propagates to use the given rail as is and to size the rolling stock accordingly. This works, but will make your rolling stock not interchangeable. So all developers I'm aware of build their rolling stock to the size of standard gauge as 1.435.I'm not an expert for the narrow gauge tracks, but I believe that those with anglo-american roots use 3 Feet, but there may exist some 1m tracks to reflect middle-european prototype and the african Kap-gauge beeing a little bit more than 1m. Narrow gauge has many variations, in Germany 0,6m 0,75m 0,9m and 1m had been in use. In saxonia some of the 0,75m are still in use today.Your question about radius: the track center is used. The sim guides the trains along the line built by the length and radius data out of the tracksection of tsection.dat The sim does not care how the track looks like, so you can run maglev trains on standard track, or standard rolling stock on narrow gauge, looking a bit funny.Regards Roman
Thanks, Roman, for your post and the data you sent me.That's exactly what I needed to know. The most important to know was about the radius. Now I can calculate much better my routes..The gauge's width, here in my crountry: Narrow, about 1 mtr. Medium: about 1,42 mtrs Wide: about 1,60 mtrs (The wide gauge is used in most of railways here)There is also an Extra-Narrow gauge of about 0,75 mts, for tourist trains in some places.Thank you very much for all the information.I'm practising a lot with Ytracks, then I'll show you what I'm doing...Kind regards...
