Trailing Points Question

ryanreeveshd

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Hello All

I know I am a bad forum member for not doing my own search, but I am at work and do not have a bunch of free time.

I was laying in bed the other night trying to fall asleep, and I had this idea.....

it would be nice if you made a movement the some trailing points that are set the wrong it would line the points to your movement, so when you pulled forward it would not de rail the train.

That is the sorce of most of my de railments, and it does not seem like the re rail portal works all that well if at all for me with switches be lined the wrong way causing a de railment.

Just thinking, and now seeing if anyone else had the same thought, or if there is rule or something of that nature that does that for you.

Thanks

Reeves
 
Not sure, but i think there is a rule somewhere to correct the points behind the train, so it does not derail. Maybe another member has the KUID for that rule?
 
There is also this one:

Check Turnout Allignments

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]KUID2:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial]216942:1001:1


and possibly this one too:

[/FONT]Lock Junctions

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]KUID2:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial]122381:10012:1

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You might also find this rule helpful if your rerail portal doesn't work:

[/FONT]Derailed Vehicle Eraser

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]KUID2:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial]116387:4:3





Cheers

Nix
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One of my big peeves is that there doesn't seem to be any good books about railways. Browsing in the Library turns up plenty of learned tomes on the history of railways etc, but nothing about the way they actually run. I sometimes despair.
Having got that off me chest, (sorry, I've become emotional) what are trailing points? And are there any other kind of points, apart from those that lead off into sidings?
Cheers everyone, and thanks. I'm learning from this forum every time I log on.
 
G'day Ol' fella, don't despair! Plenty of ex-railway people on this forum who are more than happy to explain things (makes a nice change from being told to shut up and stop being a bore!):hehe:

Points (Switches in US)

Normal - the direction they are set when that is the normal traffic flow (frequently straight on but not always)

Reversed - the direction they are set when they are set to take traffic on the diverging or branching route.

Facing - when you're coming toward them and how they are set will determine where you will go next.

Trailing - when you're coming from the opposite direction and you're going to end up on the single track no matter which way the points are set (although depending on how the points are operated you may cause some very expensive and inconvenient damage [been there, done that!]).

Obviously you can see that facing points are the ones most likely to cause a derailment if they are improperly set or faulty. Trailing points are generally unlikely to derail you even if they are set for the other direction to you.

Facing points and trailing points are the same points - it just depends which way you approach them.




Cheers

Nix
 
If you set all you points for through traffic as Nix says in the post above this should also help prevent derailments caused by points switching under the consist in Trainz
Regards Bob V
 
G'day Ol' fella, don't despair! Plenty of ex-railway people on this forum who are more than happy to explain things (makes a nice change from being told to shut up and stop being a bore!):hehe:

Points (Switches in US)

Normal - the direction they are set when that is the normal traffic flow (frequently straight on but not always)

Reversed - the direction they are set when they are set to take traffic on the diverging or branching route.

Facing - when you're coming toward them and how they are set will determine where you will go next.

Trailing - when you're coming from the opposite direction and you're going to end up on the single track no matter which way the points are set (although depending on how the points are operated you may cause some very expensive and inconvenient damage [been there, done that!]).

Obviously you can see that facing points are the ones most likely to cause a derailment if they are improperly set or faulty. Trailing points are generally unlikely to derail you even if they are set for the other direction to you.

Facing points and trailing points are the same points - it just depends which way you approach them.




Cheers

Nix

I'm not a professional railwayman and yet have been there, seen it and done that with trailing points...

1. during a shunt, someone forgot to change our spur point... Train set back, pushed a couple of wagons past the points. then the driver set forward... one wagon all wheels off and the one next to it had a wheel off.

An entire day's work down the tubes...

2. Drove a Class 101 through a set of points with a point motor on them (used for the detection of the points) while they were set the wrong way and damaged the stretcher bars and motor drive bar between outside of motor and the points themselves.

regards

Harry
 
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