Can not join track

[zigster]

Hello,

I built a yard to hold different types of trains and to keep them off of the main lines...

Somehow 2 side by side tracks became disconnected...
Here's the problem.
The 2 tracks have junctions in them, when I tried to reconnect them it won't let me, so I cut the tracks back further to try from a different point, No Deal.
No matter what I do it refuses to join the tracks back together and now I can't do any runs at all because I get the Cannot Plot route error...

I'm using Trainz 2009 World Builder
Please help, this is driving me nuts...

Zigster ...

 

[j_maybury]

Hello,

I built a yard to hold different types of trains and to keep them off of the main lines...

Somehow 2 side by side tracks became disconnected...
Here's the problem.
The 2 tracks have junctions in them, when I tried to reconnect them it won't let me, so I cut the tracks back further to try from a different point, No Deal.
No matter what I do it refuses to join the tracks back together and now I can't do any runs at all because I get the Cannot Plot route error...

I'm using Trainz 2009 World Builder
Please help, this is driving me nuts...

Zigster ...

Hi Zigster,
are you trying to conect double track line, to double track line to form a junction, If so, you carn't, you must use a single track line to form a junction.

 

[epicmek]

check no vehicles

Make sure you don't have any vehicles before the next spline point.

Martin

 

[SuperFudd]

I have had a simular if not same problem. I insert a new verticy (sp?) in the track near the open end and delete the track between the new verticy and the end, then connect.

 

[JCitron]

This was a problem with TS2009 and had been reported in Trainz Dev. In fact I reported it with pictures. I don't know what ever happened afterwards, but apparently this was never fixed.

TS2010 has some weird things like this too in Surveyor as I've found out.

John

 

[zigster]

Join Track Problem

Hello all,

Ok, I read in a tutorial about Track Direction, where joining 1 end of a track to another but the track is going the wrong way.

This is what I came up with, I laid down Track Markers between every spline throughout the whole area I was having problems with, Lord and behold, I had splines joining together of all sorts but going in different directions. Track Markers looked like this << > < > >> << , ok this doesn't work LOL... So I fixed all the directions of the tracks and everything joined up and started working again. As soon as I that and ran Driver, the 1st engine pulled right out of the Train yard and began it's duties. It actually shocked the Hell outta me when the train started running...LOL...

Well posted this in case anyone else is having the same problem, might not fix everything, but fixed the issues I was having...

Thanks for the comments and posts...

Zigster...

 

[JCitron]

Hello all,

Ok, I read in a tutorial about Track Direction, where joining 1 end of a track to another but the track is going the wrong way.

This is what I came up with, I laid down Track Markers between every spline throughout the whole area I was having problems with, Lord and behold, I had splines joining together of all sorts but going in different directions. Track Markers looked like this << > < > >> << , ok this doesn't work LOL... So I fixed all the directions of the tracks and everything joined up and started working again. As soon as I that and ran Driver, the 1st engine pulled right out of the Train yard and began it's duties. It actually shocked the Hell outta me when the train started running...LOL...

Well posted this in case anyone else is having the same problem, might not fix everything, but fixed the issues I was having...

Thanks for the comments and posts...

Zigster...

This is another supposed non-issue unrelated to connecting track. In 2010 I find that it's difficult to connect splines when making junctions. For some reason the track does not always connect to the spline point, or produce a spline point when connecting track sections.

The direction of the track-thing has been discussed since the early days of Trainz, or at least TRS2004. Supposedly this doesn't matter, but as you've found along with the rest of us, that the direction of the track seems to matter when driving.

John

 

[BobCass]

Hi All: I too had the same problem, I had a section of track that the train would not run on..Reversed the way I put it down and "Bingo" it worked..This got me to thinking and remember reading about "always lay your track in the same Direction"..This came out in the 2004 manuel..But its like there is a charge of current in every table..I have even changed a whole table because a oddity would occur of some kind..And I couldn't resolve any other way..

Bob Cass