A route project I'm currently looking at has a large number of tunnels (50+) and I'm trying to figure out the easiest and least stressful method of achieving this. Many of these are curved or "turning" tunnels which means using sections with the tunnel wall/roof built into the track. The only two track splines I'm familiar with are the TUME tunnels from Avery to Drexel in TS2010 which do not have the best looking track and the tunnel sections from Mojave which are notoriously difficult to attach to anything apart from the other JR track, where the dark pink ballast/roadbed is not suited to routes where grey or limestone ballast is used. Both the TUME and JR tunnel sections have the subsidiary issue of not having a generic tunnel portal either, all the portals are for specific locations.
I dislike the old style fixed track style tunnels as these tend to look ugly, can only be laid at certain angles and you can't use the straighten tool on them. However, it seems the best compromise is going to be take one of these tunnels, clone it and if possible remove the placement restriction and change the horrible UTC era track to one which matches the main track type in use on the route. I do recall some discussion on this previously but despite searching the forum can't find the methodology needed to achieve the above results. Any help would be appreciated - or alternatively point me in the direction of a tunnel system on the DLS which would meet my requirements and also needs to be compliant with wide/tall loading gauge (the built in UK tunnels or the ones by ppascal are too small).
Thanks.
I dislike the old style fixed track style tunnels as these tend to look ugly, can only be laid at certain angles and you can't use the straighten tool on them. However, it seems the best compromise is going to be take one of these tunnels, clone it and if possible remove the placement restriction and change the horrible UTC era track to one which matches the main track type in use on the route. I do recall some discussion on this previously but despite searching the forum can't find the methodology needed to achieve the above results. Any help would be appreciated - or alternatively point me in the direction of a tunnel system on the DLS which would meet my requirements and also needs to be compliant with wide/tall loading gauge (the built in UK tunnels or the ones by ppascal are too small).
Thanks.