Begin A Route Help

[TransContinental]

Hello. My name is Rich, and I have been using TRS2006 for quite a while now, and enjoy making routes rather than playing/driving the already made ones. But I have a consistent and redundant problem when I start to make a route.

I like to make routes from scratch, and make it as I go. How will it turn out? I don't know until it is finished. But the problem I am having is I don't know how to effectively start a route.

I usually begin by making a rail yard and turntable in a corner of the map, and running a track out of there, but I don't like it. It doesn't seem right.

I ask, not too desperately, can I have some advice on how to start a route?

Thanks,
-Rich

 

[CSX5220]

hello Rich and welcome to the fourms

do you usualy make point to point routes?

what I always do when creating, is I usualy start with an industrail station or building. then create a yard for stagging. then expand that into my main line tracks then that into spurs.

Hope this helps
Happy Trainzin'
Mike S.

 

[TransContinental]

So at one side of the map you would make, say, a coal mine/dump area, and then run a track out of that area, into a rail yard for shunting coal cars, and other cars for other industrial businesses in your route, and finally expand your route into those other industries?

If I am correct, then thanks, I will give it a try.

Though, should I store the loco in a shed to the side/behind the building?

 

[Kelly88]

Well being of the old model Railway school, I still stary with a bit of paper
never mind the kind of layout, ( point > point/circular/ or just a main point with fiddle at each or one end

make a sketch of how the main track will run then add points of interest to this ( stations/yards/industrys) this gives me a rough idea of how many boards I will need and how to place them,

from here I select a point, normaly the main focal point of the route, and start to build from here in each direction, adding the sations/yards/industrys; I then place some rolling stock at each focal point and test that area to be sure that all points are accesable, then I test that the run between focal points work; after this I go along the route filling in the scenery; with a bit of luck it all comes togeather,

 

[stagecoach]

Place a main line from end to end then place put all the yards etc around the stations. In the real world yards were built for the stations needs so came second unless it is an industry like a mine which would build the track to meet a main line.

 

[TransContinental]

Alright, thanks guys, I'll give these a try.

Hopefully I can get part of a decent looking route done by today. Wouldn't that make a decent birthday present.

-Rich