Unwanted red arrows

[ray_whiley]

Yesterday, whilst working on a continental tram layout which I am developing, I used a length of fixed track to check some bridge clearances in an odd corner. After adding other bits of scenery, I cleared the area by copying and pasting over it an area of blank baseboard - as has often been recommended, and which I have done without problems on other parts of the same layout. Everything vanished, including the length of fixed track - other than its red arrows at each end! Nothing I do gets rid of them.

It seems that the only solution would be to delete that baseboard - and repeat any work I have done. Unless anyone can make any other suggestions, please? (Yes I could paste a building over the arrows - but it will eventually be in the sea as it's a seaside setting!)

Many thanks in advance.

Ray

 

[HiBaller]

Hay, Ray. How about waiting and drop a ship on top of them? :hehe:

Bill

 

[ray_whiley]

Thanks, Bill - a good idea.

Ray

 

[bjay88]

are they also visible in driver?
i've had this problem also, with the actual track remaining, even if i delete the baseboard it remained,
never tested to see if it was visible in driver, but its worth a try anyway

 

[ray_whiley]

No, I haven't checked in Driver - will do so and report back. It's only the arrows which remain, not the track they are attached to so there's no point in trying to delete the track!

Actually, I solved the problem by deleting the baseboard as there wasn't much on it, only one tram station, some spline track and a few buildings - but I did this on a new save so can try the offending version in Driver, as suggested.

Ray

Just checked in Driver and the red arrows do not show! Very odd ...

 

[schweitzerdude]

Ran into this yesterday

I ran into this just yesterday, it was in an area where no fixed track had ever been placed, but the spacing looked about the same as a 40m fixed track object.

After trying various things, I gave up since I would think it would not be visible in driver and in any case could never be seen from a train due to it's location. One of life's mysteries.

 

[paulzmay]

The arrows would be surveyor only markers for the fixed track, so intentionally invisible in Driver. Copy and paste has historically had a few quirks (copying objects with track attached used to give an object with no tracks when pasted in older versions) - I guess this is just another one...

Paul

 

[ray_whiley]

The arrows would be surveyor only markers for the fixed track, so intentionally invisible in Driver.

Yes, Paul, I realised this after trying Driver as suggested by bjay88! So it doesn't really matter if this problem occurs - it's just a bit of an irritation in Surveyor, and a puzzle - and I like to know the answer to puzzles! In future, if I decide to copy and paste a blank area to do some deleting, I will delete track first.

Ray