Railworks America

So I started work on my CSX Cartersville Sub (Cartersville to Cedartown, GA) and I set up my route with RW tools, I imported the DEM Data, but now I've run into a problem - track junctions will not lay properly. I am trying to connect the yard with the K&A mainline, but the switches will not connect properly. (There is a very slight grade going into the yard, BTW)

So it wants to let me create the junction (you can see that with the grey lines, also, not all the track shown there is actual track but is instead the Google maps overlay.



But when I connect it it gives me this problem



It ends the track I'm trying to connect instead of creating a switch.

How do I fix this?
Thanks,
Baxter Barnes

Looks like the track is at different elevations. They need to be the same, and also have the same gradient to form proper switches.

Hack wrote:Looks like the track is at different elevations. They need to be the same, and also have the same gradient to form proper switches.

I'm not very skilled at this. How would I make the track do this? Just like in real life, the DEM data has the yard positioned lower than the mainline. The mainline is on a slight up grade whereas going into the yard is down.

I would level out the area for the yard, then approach that level area with the mainline, but transition from the mainline grade to a lesser grade for a short stretch, then to the level yard grade.

At some point, when laying tracks with Railworks, you have to compromise - make life easy on yourself by doing all the hard work of a yard on a level area.