how to measure rail distance in surveyor

[misterchugg]

hi all

can someone please tell me how to measure rail distance in surveyor between stations?
i tried the search, but it came up empty

thanks
ron

 

[JackDownUnder]

I built myself some consists, imperial unit in my case. Lay a length of track 1 mile (8 furlongs) long on a new single board route using the ruler, repeat for each of 1 to 7 furlongs.
Fill the tracks with suitable consists I use BR carriages with shorter items to make up the distance.
I save these consist as 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1 Furlong.
I then use these to measure the track distances.

 

[Vern]

Or, if your track is laid, set up a session with a loco and enable one of the custom HUD's that includes an odometer. Drive between the locations and that will tell you the distance.

 

[nicky9499]

For shorter distances where the time taken to load Driver and drive that distance would exceed the time needed to place the measurement consists, do what Jack said.

For longer distances, do what Vern said. Use -debug switch in trainzoptions to speed up this process.

 

[kgeminiboy2]

Hi Ron, download Track Scanner by sforget <kuid2:117746:23230:1>. That is what I use, tells you the signals and the junctions between the two scanners you've placed on your track aswell as the distance. Keith

 

[cascaderailroad]

Why do you need to measure track distances in the first place ?

The only reason I can think of is for siding, car lengths, so your rear end don't hang out of the tail switch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WszE4_hGZpk

 

[misterchugg]

hi all thanks for the tips cascade what i need is to find the correct distance for the small stations between paek crossing and ipswich. google dont show where the stations were or the sidings for coal or meat works. i've been looking at libraries all over the place when i have time, but cannot find where they were. i have the distances from a qr document, so if i can get accurate distance measurement on the rail line, i can place them

 

[JCitron]

Hi Ron,

These might be helpful too. Our great creator Willem2 made these for us in both Imperial and metric lengths. They are in 1/10s and clip together to make the 1km or 1 Imperial mile length which you can then roll along like any train.

Here's one of them in the series:
Measuring Wagon Imperial 52'8 Green,<kuid2:97008:60821:2>

John

 

[misterchugg]

thanks jogn
i cant get the 2 dependencies though

 

[GP30Fan]

I am guessing the two kuids you are missing are obsolete and not included with your build.

If you are OK with editing the configs of the 'measuring wagons', you can replace the missing
kuids with the following.

The first is,

bogey <kuid:-10:149>

Replace all instances of that kuid with invisible bogey,<kuid:-25:622>

And second,

default wagon,<kuid:-1:42004201>

Replace with default wagon,<kuid:-25:42> This is the engine tag.

I have used these quite a lot. They work great in placing mile markers.
I have several different consists saved, 1 mile, 5 mile, and 20 mile units that I can call up
from the config list when needed.

Good luck..

-AL

 

[misterchugg]

thank you al

will try this out tonight, if i can find the time

 

[AndrewH]

.........what i need is to find the correct distance for the small stations between paek crossing and ipswich. google dont show where the stations were or the sidings for coal or meat works...........

You should have a look at the nls website misterchugg. It has a list of 25000:1 OS maps of a series which were printed from the 1930s to the 1950s. Ipswich is sheet TM14 which you can select and view at good magnification.

The link is:- http://maps.nls.uk/os/25k-gb-1937-61/browse3.html

 

[misterchugg]

thank you heading there right now

sorry, but thats in england

i'm looking for boonah ipswich in qld australia

thanks again though