Something Interesting
Friends,
When placing mileposts on a route I am doing, I found two things of interest that are neat. When the milepost is placed select a point on the track and then without releasing the mouse data button, move the milepost to the side of the track as desired. Then what I found was that the milepost (in my case the 3 digit Southern milepost) lines up exactly with the plane of the numbers at right angles to the track. Then where the number window is, key in the desired number. Now the other cute part. There is a value of "Max. Placing Radius" that in my case defaults to 20. If working in single track, just ignore this and save the placement. But in double track, there is another button for "expand". Select this and another placement marker is inserted on any track within 20 (meters I guess). BUT this may also put placement marks on industry sidings, yard tracks or whatever which while not a actual error, is still not prototypical. So change this value to 5 and only the 2nd of double track will be linked to the milepost. Some experimentation will help with this value if you have more than double track.
Jerry Sullivan
When placing mileposts on a route I am doing, I found two things of interest that are neat. When the milepost is placed select a point on the track and then without releasing the mouse data button, move the milepost to the side of the track as desired. Then what I found was that the milepost (in my case the 3 digit Southern milepost) lines up exactly with the plane of the numbers at right angles to the track. Then where the number window is, key in the desired number. Now the other cute part. There is a value of "Max. Placing Radius" that in my case defaults to 20. If working in single track, just ignore this and save the placement. But in double track, there is another button for "expand". Select this and another placement marker is inserted on any track within 20 (meters I guess). BUT this may also put placement marks on industry sidings, yard tracks or whatever which while not a actual error, is still not prototypical. So change this value to 5 and only the 2nd of double track will be linked to the milepost. Some experimentation will help with this value if you have more than double track.
Jerry Sullivan