Railworks America

Guys ,
something really off the wall , today happen .
I was working on my route and I reopen route to add more track . to my surprise , all the trackwork and my signals were gone . I was wonder if someome has this problem also.

Does any one know a fix for this problem . there is a photo below .
Steven Presnal
Los Osos, Ca

Restore a backup

I don't have a backup copy , I wish I did . I though someone would know a fix for it .

I have learn a lot of stuff on this route . sooner or later ,I was going to start a new route base in California between Stockton and Bakersfield .

Steven Presnal
Los Osos, Ca

Have you got RW Tools? If so, have a look at your track.bin and see if there's anything obvious. You might be able to use the roll-back function of Windows to restore the file to an earlier version.

I restore my windows , but it did not fix the problem .

I guess I will have to start fresh with a new route

I will make a backup copy and keep it up to date with new Route

Steven Presnal
Los Osos, Ca

Since you already have scenery you could just lay fresh track. But you should be able to recover your tracks.bin

Well, I am not going to relay this route, I made some major mistakes in the first route . First , plan was to be a East to West route . My route was North to South . So I am going to start fresh and use RWDecal and Redem for I can get some real looking mtns in the route . I am still learning RW , I have a plan to run route from Bakersfield to LA Via Grapevine area of South California . I have not plan out my route yet Here is a part of the route Newhall and North .
Steven Presnal

Good plan. My first attempt at a route I tried doing it all manually and it took forever so I gave up. Second attempt I used ReDem and RWDecal but I used two different track rules which made it difficult to edit long lengths of track. Third attempt I got the track laying mastered but focused on small areas of high detail scenery at a time and found it hard to tie each area in whilst keeping a consistent look. So I'm now on my fourth restart of the route... this time laying ALL the track first using two track rules which I created myself, placing road section on crossing as I go so that I know I won't have to modify track later to accomodate crossings. Next step is to place all the siding markers and signals and test the crap out of it, make as many scenarios as poss etc... Then when I know it's all fully functional I'll place buildings (I'll have to custom make masses of them myself I think), then foliage.

I'm pretty sure everyone who's ever created a route has restarted it several times before they've learned everything they need to know to make it work.

i had that happen to me lots. so i back up alot. but for me i do 30 miles befor i back up and if the game crashes and i restart the game and the track is still there i'm exiting and backing up. i really hope it get fix cause sometimes i do 50 miles of work with out backing up and if it crashes and i lose all that track it can be pain to start over from last save point.

I'm having the same problem,no tracks.any idea how to fix it