Hi guy's, I have written a guide tutorial for those people who would like to build an Australian route for MSTS but do not know how to understand the curve & gradient diagrams, I hope that this is easy to understand for everyone
Regards Phil
This is a tutorial based on the curve & gradient diagrams and it is designed to help people who cannot read or understand how they work for MSTS, I found that this is very easy to understand thanks to the wonderful help of RIC "Rail Infrastructure Corporattion NSW". Attached is a picture for everyone to have a guide on how the curve & gradient diagrams work. If you cannot see this clearly I be happy to send you the pdf file as long as you PM me with your email first.
If you don't have the curve and gradient diagrams, you can download it either from Railcorp, ARTC, & Steam4me sites or you can buy it at Sydney Central Station Book Shop for $59.00 witch features curve & gradient diagrams from 1894, 1907 & 1932 within NSW all in pdf format.
Ok, Lets get started. To understand the curve & gradient diagrams you will see 3 or even 2 lines on some pages the first line (TOP) is called the gradient line, the (MIDDLE) line with all the up & down zigzaged lines with a faded straight line is the curves line, and some sheets have the bottom straight line you can ignore this as this line is only a guide for the distance from Sydney in KM.
On the sheet I have given you you will see witch curve is what. The Right curve points up and the Left curve points down towards the bottom of the sheet the numbers beside these curves is the radius of the curve in meters, witch you can create these with the dynamic track selection or locate it using the track selections in Route Editor. Also on the sheet you will notices some signs pointting towards and away from Sydney these are the speed borads for up and down trains some of the sheets have 2 lots, You can also see these on the sheet "X, L, and numbers looking like this -244 & 1543 found on or next to the gradient line the X means level crossing. L means that the track isn't raised it must be set to 0.000 within the Objects/ Elevation window in Route Editor, the -244 lowers the track you can do this by lowerig the track to this number using the Object/ Elevation window it should look something like this -0.244, and finally the 1543 is showing that the track is being raised in height in Route Editor Objects/ Elevation window it should look like this without the (-) symbal 1.543. Have ago at building this line and you be supprised on how route builders do it. In route Editor to flip the track from left to right use the T key, I credit ARG706 for this information given to me on the Railpage forums, to raise the terrain to the track press the Y key, I credit the Steam4me site tutorials for this information
