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I'm building a small route and have all the track laid. Just ran a train over it to see how it would work and ran into an odd anomaly. I have one long curved piece. I reads as a .300 grade. Both the pieces before it and after it have the exact same .300 grade. But when the train runs over this particular curved piece it looks and feels like the train is suddenly going up a much steeper grade. It is also visibly steeper when viewed from the side. Because it is a curved piece, I am a little hesitant to delete it and replace it. I found that curves on a grade are pretty tough to replace and have all the pieces connect properly. So I will probably leave it in the end. But I was just wondering if anyone else had come across a similar anomaly.
You probably:* Used the "T" key to reverse the track ONCE you had adjusted the gradient. Doing so will alter the gradient.* OR, you T-flipped it, not realizing that this makes the grade read in opposite degrees from when first placed. Thus, you have one at .300 and another at -.300 resulting in a total grade change between those sections of .600.Smoothing such an error is a real pain in the patootey... best you can do is try to average out the grade between several sections to regain a smooth transistion.In the future, always T-flip your track sections as soon as placed while at the default .000 gradient setting. Further, until you get very familiar laying track, pay close attention to which way the end of the placed piece elevates when raising/lowering. Andre Ming