Switch track directions

[Merv0728]

How should I lay the track between 'up' & 'down'lines ?

---------up-------->----\------->------>----/---------------------------
\ /
--------down-----<--------\-------<-------/--------<--------------------

'up' to 'down' or 'down' to 'up' ?

Thanks
Alan

 

[JCitron]

How should I lay the track between 'up' & 'down'lines ?

---------up-------->----\------->------>----/---------------------------
\ /
--------down-----<--------\-------<-------/--------<--------------------

'up' to 'down' or 'down' to 'up' ?

Thanks
Alan

Alan,

They say it doesn't matter which way you lay the track. According to N3V, the old rumor of trains traveling in the wrong direction due to track direction is false. The only thing it affects is the direction of track objects and placed trains in Surveyor, and this is a inconvenience where you have to rotate the objects to the right direction and side of the track.

I usually tend to lay the track in the direction I'm going so it's easy to put down signals and junctions.

John

 

[cgwright]

I don't know, maybe they have improved things, but I had a layout in TC3 that used to do strange things. After I went to Chuck Brite's tutorials, see

http://trains.0catch.com/tutorial.html

and set all my tracks in one consistent direction (like he says) the problems went away.

But let me stress that I was then using TC3 (which is, I think TRS2006) so as I say, maybe they have made this better now. I could never see any rational reason for a train to care in which direction the track was laid, but the problems did effect running trains in Driver, not in Surveyor.

As a rule, I still try to keep tracks going in a consistent direction, but never could work out what to do with crossovers! So no help to you at all really...

Cheers
Chris

 

[Merv0728]

Track Direction

Thanks to you both for your replies. I have often thought the same but could find no certain way to prove it one way or the other.

Alan