What to build and what not to build.... That's the question.

This will be a blog for the beginner to read or even the older Trainz user who wants to have a laugh or think back on when.

Ok, after trying to place a tunnel in a ditch that I had made under my track, I worked out that you need to set tunnels up on the baseboard at ground level and make mountains over them.

Next boo boo, Made a canyon that was to have a river flowing through it, covered the canyon floor with grass, then tried to make the river, should have made the river before putting on the grass. I need to take off the grass in the area that the river will be in so I need to download a program called 'Erazor' from www.uelasticus.de/erazor/erazor.zip and a texture kuid_44700_11992.cdp from DLS. This is used as a marker. Just apply it to the area on your board where you want to have your ground textures removed, exit TRS and run erazor. In the marked area all textures are wiped away leaving the yellow on grey grid.

Well I have started laying the track, trying to get it as accurate as I can be, to be faithful to the layout map. Layout size is 22 feet by 12 feet, at least I don't have to lay cork nor add electrical or joiners, this gets better and better.

Well I have laid 85% of the track and have made my first big blunda, wrong track! I used the 'track wood us' which is as I know now 4 foot track, I needed 3'6" narrow gauge. What to do?

Checked the Net - nothing, checked every trainz site I could find - nothing, get up the courage to post on the 'Trainz Forum - Wow! overnight, several posts from some very helpful people who were very friendly. [See my site for answer].

Ran out of base board so I had to add another to the south end, I only needed 2/3rd's of it, but may use the other later. I will add a cutting through the mountain there just in case. Well, got to get back to world building. Will blog soon.