JonMyrlennBailey
Active member
Have you ever built a Trainz layout with static cars, jeeps, SUV's, wagons, trucks and buses and wondered if they would have enough room to move around if they were driveable real-world vehicles? How about your trains on rails even?
1. are your track curves so tight that the porches on the ends of inter-coupled hood-unit diesel engines will touch together or even overlap? If my curves are tighter than about 65 meters, my SP SD40-T-2 porches will hit together if the engines are coupled back to back because there is little space between the units at the rear couplers. This is something I had observed.
2. are your horse-drawn carriage turns so sharp that the wagon trees will hit the front wheels?
3. do your cars have enough room to pull in and out of parking spaces without several backups and pull ups?
4. will the steps on the locomotives rub against the station or loading platform or sides of a bridge deck?
5. do your semi trucks have enough room to turn around and back up to the loading dock?
6. are your parking spaces wide enough for door opening clearances?
7. do buses have enough room to pull in and out of the train station?
8. Will a semi be able to swing a turn on a street intersection?
We have to pay attention to geometry and ruler measurements when constructing an infrastructure in Surveyor. Grades, turns and clearances have to be realistic and manageable for traffic. Also, bear in mind real-world traffic laws and regulations. Vehicles have to maneuver and park legally as well as physically. A car, bus, wagon, train, boat, aircraft, ship, bike, jeep, van, suv or truck needs so much space to move about practically, legally and safely. I see so many model railroad layouts with static gridlocked scenery cars that would have no place to go if they were in real world.
1. are your track curves so tight that the porches on the ends of inter-coupled hood-unit diesel engines will touch together or even overlap? If my curves are tighter than about 65 meters, my SP SD40-T-2 porches will hit together if the engines are coupled back to back because there is little space between the units at the rear couplers. This is something I had observed.
2. are your horse-drawn carriage turns so sharp that the wagon trees will hit the front wheels?
3. do your cars have enough room to pull in and out of parking spaces without several backups and pull ups?
4. will the steps on the locomotives rub against the station or loading platform or sides of a bridge deck?
5. do your semi trucks have enough room to turn around and back up to the loading dock?
6. are your parking spaces wide enough for door opening clearances?
7. do buses have enough room to pull in and out of the train station?
8. Will a semi be able to swing a turn on a street intersection?
We have to pay attention to geometry and ruler measurements when constructing an infrastructure in Surveyor. Grades, turns and clearances have to be realistic and manageable for traffic. Also, bear in mind real-world traffic laws and regulations. Vehicles have to maneuver and park legally as well as physically. A car, bus, wagon, train, boat, aircraft, ship, bike, jeep, van, suv or truck needs so much space to move about practically, legally and safely. I see so many model railroad layouts with static gridlocked scenery cars that would have no place to go if they were in real world.
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