How many baseboards would a 9-mile route be?

[MeowRailroad]

Assuming that the route is straight, and there are no baseboards without track on them, and no sidings or industry tracks protrude off the baseboard that the main is on, how many baseboards (roughly) would a 9-mile route be? I was thinking about doing the Sandersville Railroad which is 9 miles.

 

[cascaderailroad]

My calculations are @ 20.115 baseboards ... but I am usually wrong about most things :hehe:

The Sandersville Railroad is 9 miles long ... Doo Dah ... Doo Dah ...

A baseboard is 720m ... a mile is 1609m

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Baseboards are 750 metres square.

20 baseboards laid in a line will be enough. It will give you 15000 metres.

Nine miles is 14484.1 metres


Edit: Wrong info. Baseboards are 720 metres square. Please see corrections in subsequent posts.

 

[JCitron]

One baseboard is actually 720 meters or 0.48 miles.

3 baseboards is 2,160 meters, which is 1.34 miles.

I would say it's 18.75 baseboards = 9 miles. Since we can't have a 3/4-sized baseboard we round this up to 19 baseboards.

John

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Well done John. Yes, baseboards are 720m square. My bad!

I've not been using the game as often, and the greys cells are getting increasingly blurred these days.

 

[JCitron]

Well done John. Yes, baseboards are 720m square. My bad!

I've not been using the game as often, and the greys cells are getting increasingly blurred these days.

No worries.

I can relate. I had to measure things carefully before I posted and do that often.

 

[steamboateng]

It's always a good day when John gets his math right!

 

[mjolnir]

In my view, those who propose to do the Sandersville railroad have made a minor error in assuming that the right of way is tangent from one end to the other. Regrettably this is not the case, as the railroad has a number of curves, and is not linear, nor is it perfectly aligned with the compass. I suggest that allowing for at least a baseboard and a half distance from the track center line at each point would be a better route, and this would mean that the number of boards for the route needs to be tripled, to about 60 or so.

Still, this is well within the scope that I think can be reasonably achieved by one person.

ns

 

[Vern]

You also really need to budget at least two or three tiles (I hate calling them baseboards) either side to give an impression of distant scenery. If this is a prototype route you would be well advised to use Transdem for it, that will take care of the terrain and mapping plus you can specify how wide you want the route to be either side of the track. You can't really get away with doing a real life route on just a one tile wide route, particularly if you're looking to move it into TANE where a draw distance up to 15km (9.5 miles) is possible.

 

[steamboateng]

Ven, I like the way you think. When doing a route, especially a historical one, there is so much more to lend it character. Railroads, however big or small, all had their own purpose and served specific needs within the limits defined by its environment and its management. Are you doing it justice by shaving off hills, farms, encroaching valleys, not to speak of the maintenance and upkeep of property assets. T:NE allows you to do all that in a way TS12 never could.