Don't lose track or track pieces.if you click one into existance but can't see it, press Del while it's still selected.Avoid clicking on track pieces once interactives are present on the route.

Or avoid placing roads and deleting them all and saving and exiting.

Avoid placing track and deleting it all and then saving and exiting.

Avoid saving the route with a heavily loaded (800+) world tile.

Ensure object coordinates show all zeros (on the Object palette) before saving.

Never save a route with any objects selected.

All turnouts have a 'red' pole.the red pole must be connected to another piece of track or a TDB corruption may result.

Never save a route with any turnouts not connected.

Never save a route via its prompt to save when simply trying to close the Route Editor.

Use the numeric pad or the Ctrl key and the mouse to move objects level.

Use the Ctrl key to select multiple objects at the same time.

Test the track/route by driving it periodically as you work on it.

Keep several generations of backups as you go along.

Make backups of the route regularlly as you work on it.

Do use dynamic track as little as possible.

If it does not list numbers over 40,000, then it must be Horace'd or equivalent before editing the route (the route's Dynamic Track) with a Standardized tsection.dat installed.

Before editing an existing route, check its tsection.dat status by checking the index numbers in the route's tsection.dat.

Minimize the Route Editor if you need to stop and use another program.

Then focus on interactives like signals, carspawners, siding markers, speed signs, etc. Then lay track, and perhaps key landmark structures.

After generating terrain, DEM it if you're going to.

Place sound sources with great care so that you place them in the same world tile the camera is currently in.

This avoids the problem addressed above and safeguards some against the RE possibly crashing while sculpting terrain. When you need to edit terrain on a heavy world tile, it's best to save your object placement changes first before making terrain changes. Usually you can manage to save both on an adjacent tile and the terrain changes won't be lost. Then return to where ever it was you were working and continue. then move to an area that has very few to no objects and save again, this time, click yes to save world edits and no to save terrain edits.

If the tile happens to have lots of objects, click no when prompted to save world edits and yes to save terrain edits. If you do terrain edits, always do a save before you leave that tile.If a world tile gets 'heavy' (800+ objects), go to another tile-preferably with zero objects-before you save.In Object Select mode (F2), click the bare terrain or the open sky. Always deselect all objects before saving.The Route Editor may crash at any time, given certain circumstances. Always save using the Save command on the Route menu.

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