Dual Gauge Track in Trainz

[PereMarquette1225fan]

Hello fellow Trainzers, I have a question. Are there dual gauge tracks in Trainz? I am working on my route the Manchester Northern Railway and I plan to start work on the mountains either today or tomorrow. I just need to know, because my route will have a narrow gauge freight service where the narrow gauge delivers raw materials to the standard gauge and I plan to do a dual gauge section where narrow gauge and standard gauge trains run in conjunction with one another for about 35 miles.

 

[whitepass]

There are some on the DLS but thay do not work like real ones just look good.

 

[Conrail45]

With some careful placing of invisible track it can look like it's working. At that point though, you cant use signals. It depends what you want, operation or appearance.

-Conrail45

 

[farecoal]

There was also a website- can't remember the name, but you could just google dual gauge tracks and find it. It had four rail dual gauge tracks.

 

[whistlehead]

With some careful placing of invisible track it can look like it's working. At that point though, you cant use signals. It depends what you want, operation or appearance.

-Conrail45

I'm sure there's a system you can use with triggers that would make it all work smoothly

 

[camelbacklao]

Dual gauge is ever sice something really interesting to me. For my pike I was inspired by John Allen's G&D Line some decades ago. Therefore I was using Shinohara code 100 tracks which were excellent for running my NWSL Shays. I think Shinohara was the only manufacturer who made Dual Gauge-Tracks, at least for HOn3/Standard gauge. The special things were pieces of derail left/right common rail left/right, and of them all, Dual Gauge double slip, common rail left or right. As I remember well, MSTS had a system who let You create dual gauge tracks, and it worked quite well, except there were no possibilities for correct signalling. Till today I never tried to do the same with Trainz.

 

[jjslll54]

Hello,

Something I did years ago was to put my narrow gauge rails only by aligning one of the rails inside an outside rail of the standard gauge track. The track will look like it has three rails. You may get some flashing from the outside rail if not done precisely. Also, like said above, signaling will be an issue.

Jack

 

[Zeldaboy14]

why is the dual gauge track such a issue, and why can't one just make dual gauge track in blender or so? Does it just not work that way?

 

[jjslll54]

Hello,

To answer your question; it doesn't work that way. Basically you have two trains that can run down the double track. The game sees it as two separate tracks, which means you can only signal one of the tracks and you will have to separate them as you signal so the signal goes to the right track. I suppose if you had a way of keeping up which signal goes with which track you could do it that way. Maybe all three light signals for the standard gauge and singles for the narrow gauge. I know it sounds tedious but you will like the results if you really want dual gauge track. Something else. If the track is made in Blender or any other 3D software the tracks would have to be centered so you would end up with four rails. I believe the signals may work properly as the game will only see one track regardless of where the wheels of the train are.

Jack

 

[Shortline2]

For Dual gauge to work in Trainz you need essential two parallel tracks, or in reality, two parallel invisible lines made by Trainz on any model you set up to act as a track...

It do not matter how the track looks, Trainz as a program will always drive anything set up as a train along the X=0 in any model set up as kind track.

Hence, in order to make dual gauge work in the older days of Trainz, we made dual gauge as kind Bridge, which now a days is a no go as that kind seem to not be around anymore.

There is a way with the new attached track part of the kind track config, but essential it is still making two tracks into one track where neither of the tracks no about the other and trains can pass by each-other, through each-other and you cannot connect cars on one gauge to something on the other gauge on that type of track.

So, for you Zeldaboy14, it don't matter if you make a dual gauge track model in Blender - or anything else - you still need to tell Trainz to hook into that model so to speak two invisible tracks in order for it to work as a dual gauge track.

Linda

 

[MountE]

Didn't Razorback RR have a map with dual gauge track in one of the earlier Trainz versions?