If you want to make these, you’re stuck with using Vanilla/RailCraft tracks. Something Traincraft tracks cannot do efficiently yet. These are a rarity and purely situational. Nevertheless, there are ways to use them. Unless you’re just laying track for the hell of it, don’t expect to use these often. This one is at a junction between Trainserb’s “Black Line” and my mountain forestry line. No one said these need to be flat, or small. Incidentally, this is a nice example of a single-to-double wye. While building on Trainserb, these provided fast transitions for me to get off our main lines and onto my own private tracks. Wyes like this are also a compact alternative to the ‘Return Loop’ I showed in the basics.

In some cases these switches can be left “On” to always route your train in a certain direction. Then fill in the missing sections and add levers. With the first two switches down, we need the third. This does require two-block spacing between the tracks that curve. So we bust up the straight track on the left, and lay down a Large switch to match the one that’s already there. There’s a couple different ways to make these depending on your specific tracks. I need what’s called a “Wye”, and I’m a huge fan of these.īasically it’s three switch tracks arranged to give you a ‘T’-shape, allowing you to take your train in three directions instead of two. That means I need to change this switch so I can go from either village to the other without going home to turn around.

I’ve already established track to that village but I soon figured out that being able to hit up both villages in one trip made more sense. After building that short line to the village in the “Basics” guide, I found another village just like it. We’ll assume you’ve put in a week or two with your startup train and you’ve found things around the world that you want to bring home. Now that I’ve covered the basic “how to A-to-B” part, let’s deal with the greater tangle.

Traincraft switches