Clearing Blocked Flangeways

We all love the crossover tool for creating those lovely frogs where the diverging track is continued through the flangeway of the straight track, looking truly stupid. By chance, I found out that this has to do with the opposing switch. Therefore, decoupling the two switches of the crossover solves the problem.

This is how I do it:

Case 1 - with intermediate straight. In this case there is a single straight between the two curved ribbons of the switches. Select the split tool and click somewhere in the middle of this straight. If only one of the two buffer stops appears, don't panic. Select the weld tool and click on the grey cube that will appear where you split the track. Reload the route to see the result, overcoming the usual track rendering issue. You should see two perfect switches and no buffer stops or track gaps at all.

Case 2 - without intermediate straight. In this case the two curved ribbons directly connect. Using the split tool again, cut off a bit from one of the two ribbons. Be careful not to cut into the guiderails and don't make the bit ridiculously short. 1m is fine. Like above, the result will look like a mess. Just pick the weld tool, click on the one cube showing where you cut, once. Then reload the route and enjoy.

Even tough I applied this method often with success, I urge everyone to keep backups of the Networks folder outside the Steam folders. Keep a series of version, so when you find a problem, you have several steps to go back and retrieve a version where the problem has not yet appeared.