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Hi,

I noticed its possible to build normal and small railroads on eachother even its in the same direction. but when I tried, I couldn't build a signal or station platform on a combined track.

This would come in handy when a city has grown too big for and extra station track.

Is this possible to change?

You can build stations and signals for standard tracks and for narrow gauge tracks separate. Because stations and signals are built for a specific type of track, it seems me impossible to combine stations and signals working for both types of tracks combined.

But if there is a solution, you may find it in trackst.dat and in trackng.dat

You cant build different tracks on each other.
Only above each other. Turn your map 180 degrees with the red arrow left on the top, and you will see.

I am thinking about combining standard tracks with narrow gauge tracks. This is possible, you can lay narrow gauge tracks straight on standard tracks, but signals cannot be created.

In sydney (Australia) they have narrow track for all there trains and in melbourne (Australia) we have normal track, but at the border theres special trains for both states with the weels are hydrolicly pushed out or pulled inwards (saw it on a documentry) however this is a very slow way of transporting goods, but cheaper then using 2 different trains to move the one lot.. and in locomotion time it would probly take a year to go from normal to narrow track, lol here it takes a good 3 hours for 20 carrages

chevyrider wrote:You cant build different tracks on each other.
Only above each other. Turn your map 180 degrees with the red arrow left on the top, and you will see.

Im sure, i did it before. You can build them on eachother in the same direction.

But maybe its a bit complex to change the signal ting in the game?

d00mh4mm3r wrote:In sydney (Australia) they have narrow track for all there trains and in melbourne (Australia) we have normal track, but at the border theres special trains for both states with the weels are hydrolicly pushed out or pulled inwards (saw it on a documentry) however this is a very slow way of transporting goods, but cheaper then using 2 different trains to move the one lot.. and in locomotion time it would probly take a year to go from normal to narrow track, lol here it takes a good 3 hours for 20 carrages

that does sound like a slow way to transport goods, thou an easier method would be to fit both wheel types (narrow and standard) to the single train, much more effective and costs far less, prob safer too, but I know theres a fault in it somewhere, normally is with my ideas

Jim-San wrote: thou an easier method would be to fit both wheel types (narrow and standard) to the single train, much more effective and costs far less, prob safer too, but I know theres a fault in it somewhere, normally is with my ideas

I would work if there weren't junctions.
A junctions would like at Zwiss cheese with that many holes in the track to let pass all that wheels.

d00mh4mm3r wrote:In sydney (Australia) they have narrow track for all there trains and in melbourne (Australia) we have normal track, but at the border theres special trains for both states with the weels are hydrolicly pushed out or pulled inwards (saw it on a documentry) however this is a very slow way of transporting goods, but cheaper then using 2 different trains to move the one lot.. and in locomotion time it would probly take a year to go from normal to narrow track, lol here it takes a good 3 hours for 20 carrages

no, sydeny is SG, melbourne is BG, there are a few lines in sound australia and western australia thats narrow gauge.

they dont change trains at the border, the run SG trains right through. we have a small SG network in melbourne.

wow, tenacioustheforesaken, so theres one letter difference S and B.. but u do only have small network of track in melbourne, and i know theres a point somewhere here, just dont know where (I thought it may be in the border) as most cargo is put onto our set of tracks (from tas) and get moved to sydney (No idea what you need from tas.. but hay, you might need hay)

d00mh4mm3r wrote:wow, tenacioustheforesaken, so theres one letter difference S and B.. but u do only have small network of track in melbourne, and i know theres a point somewhere here, just dont know where (I thought it may be in the border) as most cargo is put onto our set of tracks (from tas) and get moved to sydney (No idea what you need from tas.. but hay, you might need hay)

that really makes no sense, your profile says your from melbourne back your talking about "your" track being in tas...?

anyway, i think they may have used that awhile ago, but most if not all interstate freight would run on the SG. it would be completely pointless to ship train A, to point X, then move it over to train B, and then continue on to its final deso, point Z,
when you could use train C to move from point Y straight to point Z