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jokeamotive (9 posts)
Nov-25-01, 06:26 PM (EST) "How Do I Add A Extra Siding or Yard to Marias Pass" Well I want to edit the default Marias Pass route and add a siding and a small yard. How would I do this. The problem with the route editor is that I dont know how to bring up curve, straight, and left & right switches. I dont want to alter and scenery just add track. How do I do it. Im not a gee whizz like
the rest of you, but make it simple if you can. Thanks for your
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: How Do I Add A Extra Siding or ... sniper297 Nov-25-01 1 RE: How Do I Add A Extra Siding or ... wp713 Nov-25-01 2 RE: How Do I Add A Extra Siding or ... blue comet Nov-25-01 3

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sniper297 (939 posts)
Nov-25-01, 07:03 PM (EST) 1. "RE: How Do I Add A Extra Siding or Yard to Marias Pass" "jokeamotive"? You mean we finally got somebody else in here with a sense of humor? Welcome aboard. Where's my spoon, I gotta give this new guy all the info I had to learn the hard way. Rats, the doggone thing must be busted, there's no way to spoon feed newbies yet.
Seriously (rare for me) there ain't any real whiz kids here, the route editor is so incredibly stupid that MENSA has declared it a disaster area, and all it's members are forbidden to use it. And the help files are helpless too. As far as laying track,Note the warning for all the editors, make sure your mental health insurance is up to date.
Click on a piece to select it, then right click, up pops a box telling you what it is. Hit the delete key to delete it, open the object selector;to find track sections to paste. I learned by doing, bought a spiral notebook from Walgreens and pasted a bunch of A1t500r10ds and A1t1500r20ds and A1tendpnt10drts and so forth down, then took notes on what all that meant. If you browse thru the misc and utilities section of the file library (when it's working again) somebody made a list of track sections, and it would also be a good idea to buy Mike Vone's route building guide if you would rather spend 15 bucks instead of the next 3 months doing trial and error or searching thru the archives for answers.
Good luck, you'll need it. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
wp713 (36 posts)
Nov-25-01, 08:51 PM (EST) 2. "RE: How Do I Add A Extra Siding or Yard to Marias Pass" Also, there's a place on MSN where you can get the list of what each track piece means.I think its called - 2times2 route help or something like that. Enjoy..... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
blue comet (34 posts)
Nov-25-01, 09:32 PM (EST) 3. "RE: How Do I Add A Extra Siding or Yard to Marias Pass" One thing to keep in mind if you do change any route configuration by adding a switch, etc. is that you may cause any activities that have a path thru that area to be invalid.
My suggestion is to add anything off of a siding rather than a mainline track.Bob S Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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