... position for the main road.) TMINP is on the turnout-road centre-line, at the minimum possible setting for the turnout-road exit length: 2_021003_070000002.png Note that setting this peg position simply moves the fixing peg, it doesn't change the current exit length. The exit length is usually set using the CTRL+ F12 mouse action, but can be set directly if preferred- geometry> template lengths... menu item: 2_021003_060000000.png Setting the minimum possible turnout-road exit is helpful to minimize any discrepancies after inserting a diamond-crossing or a turnout at the intersection of other templates. The underlying template can then be split and shortened back to the exit. See also the video: help> watch a video> switch close behind V-crossing These new peg positions are included in the extend/shorten to meet function: extend_shorten_trans5a.png See: http://templot.com/companion/link_existing.php And in the align> snap functions: 2_021157_590000000.png regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called ...

... protection is largely destroyed in the process, leading to early rotting. Alternatively you can simply leave a gap between them, provided there are adjacent timbers holding the rails to gauge. This means the gaps would be typically alternated in adjacent roads, and ideally placed in the least heavily-traffic roads. Note that if you leave a gap it needs to be a definite gap, not with the timber ends butted close together. This is so that if the timber needs packing, the gang can dig out all round it to insert jacks, etc. You can see it in your picture: 2_131152_340000000.jpg But note that there are no hard and fast rules about any of this. Each timbering layout is designed for the actual site using the practice of the local design office. If we lay down any rules here, someone will come along and post a photo showing the exact opposite. regards, Martin. posted: 13 Feb 2017 20:58 from: Jim Guthrie The Americans were doing similar- like this crossover for the Union Pacific Railroad. Scroll ...

... .. menu item. The near end of a rail is set using blanking, most usually by means of the CTRL-F3 mouse action. The far end of a rail is set by means of the overall length, most usually by means of the F4 mouse action. Using these controls you can build up complex formations from elements of rail in any combination. Here I have made a gap in one of the rails in this turnout. (The usual reason to do that would be so that a crossing can be inserted on yet another partial template.) This is a total of 3 partial templates: partial_gap.png I have made a bit of video showing the above being created: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=WD6BqPFKL0h2J85x0pKtPQ2 Normally you would work over the background template. In the video I temporarily parked it out of the way, so that the rail adjustments would be clearer. Ask again if it's not clear. regards, Martin. posted: 21 Jan 2009 13:30 from: George Ray Martin Thank you so much ...

... sprung points can't be used on a single-track line. Double-bladed catch points are used as trap points to prevent unauthorised movements from goods lines onto passenger lines, as in Mick's picture. They are always rodded from the signal box and interlocked in the lever frame. Sometimes a single catch point is used instead, usually where space constraints mean that the catch point must be incorporated within other pointwork. More about catch points in these topics: click here and here. There is a short Templot video showing how to insert a set of catch points: click here. There was a detailed discussion on RMweb about catch points: click here. regards, Martin. posted: 28 Jan 2009 14:18 from: micknich Just to confuse matters, the Walton Street "Catch Point" was spring worked and therefore not rodded to the signal box. Also unusualy the line it was on was nominaly a passenger line with no booked goods traffic. Indeed after July 1955 it had no booked traffic at all. It still remains today as a single ...

... topic: 3036 Rail Joint and Timber Changes on Diamonds posted: 6 Jun 2017 11:52 from: Godfrey Earnshaw I was creating a 1 in 7 moveable K-crossing diamond in 4 -SF. I started with plain track then template> insert diamond in plain track. This created a half-diamond with fixed K-crossing. However, I wanted to have a moveable K-crossing. So, real> K-crossing options> moveable K-crossings. At this point I noticed that the main-road and diagonal-road stock rail joints had moved toward the vee and consequently the K numbered timbers had increased in quantity. However the T numbered timbers had decreased in quantity to just two which were overlapping. I am not sure whether to reduce the T to one and adjust it's position slightly or try to space the two timbers a little. I tried the same in P4 and there is a similar change in rail joint position although there are 4 rather than two T timbers My main question is, why is there ...

... API for direct loading of tiles. But it is available as a "slippy map" web site with a useful option of adjustable transparency over an underlying base map or aerial image -- in effect you get two maps for each web URL. Which means screenshots can be made manually for use as background picture shapes. The difficulty is sizing them to the exact scale to match your model. So I thought I would look at supplementing the directly loaded maps with an option for Templot to make the screenshots for you, and insert them automatically at the correct scaled size. It's working quite well, and will be in the next program update. 2_062230_270000003.png As usual, getting it to work is the easy bit. What always makes me sweat is creating a simple user interface, and especially writing the notes in words which folks will actually read, and not glaze over when they see them. So here is the first draft for this function. Please read these notes and let me know if anything is unclear. Thanks: 2_062230_260000000.png 2_062230_270000001.png 2_062230_270000002.png regards, ...

... expressed myself inadequately when I referred to the snapping of templates. I was referring to times, usually when I'm fiddling with an existing design and I need to connect the new templates to the existing trackwork. That is something that I've always found a bit of a challenge in Templot. My approach is to start at one end (of the new bit) and lay in a new piece of plain track (snapped to the existing design at one end) and curved to the correct radius and then I add turnouts by "inserting" them one by one with "Make Split" to facilitate this much as in your video. I then either align the other end of the new templates with the existing plan by eye(probably not the correct approach?) or I use "Peg Align Tools \Transition Curve" typically which gives me what I'm after. So when I found that snapping (to the nearest template) wasnt working I thought I must have made an unintentional change somewhere... Ended up at your post where you explained what ...

... 1200px-A_scissors_crossover_at_Uraga.JPG Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication There are some notes on scissors crosovers here: topic 2930- message 20790 If you post a track plan or photo, we can be sure we are talking about the same thing. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Sep 2017 16:35 from: Cornelis de Groot Hi Martin Yes that is more or less it. However I like to have a triple sciccor crossover. I had already uploaded a picture (see gallery) but will do it again and try inserting this time. Regards Cornelis3467_271134_080000000.jpg Martin Wynne wrote: Cornelis de Groot wrote: I want to build this in HO 16.5 mm with a track distance of 51-54 mm and in code 83 FB. Hi Cornelis, Welcome to Templot Club. That's a common operating practice at UK stations too. I think you mean a "scissors" crossover? 1200px-A_scissors_crossover_at_Uraga.JPG Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication There are some notes on scissors crosovers here: topic 2930- message 20790 If you post a track plan or photo ...

... contains the instructions: http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204436 For CTRL-F1 to CTRL-F10 in Templot you can simply press numbers 1 to 0 instead along the main keyboard. Print out the F-key chart to see the other single-key alternatives -- help> print F-key chart menu item. The F keys and others seem to be disappearing from the latest computers and tablets, or else require using an awkward Fn key -- for example my Surface Pro tablet has no Insert key. So I'm intending to add a floating on-screen keyboard in the next Templot update. A few basic functions are already available on the beginner buttons along the top of the trackpad, and this will extend that idea. All the functions are always available on the action menu and the other menus, so that Templot could be used without a keyboard at all, but the keyboard or a touch-screen is much faster. Martin, you have been very helpful over the years and it has been some time ...

... some timber under them. This often means using more timbers, or wider timbers, so that the chairs are firmly supported and the chair screws are not too near to the edge of a timber. Timbers should be as near as possible at right-angles to the rails. This creates the strongest track, able to resist gauge-spread. This is especially important on curved tracks. Timbers must be able to be packed up level if necessary. This means that the gang must be able to dig out under them, insert jacks, and place fresh ballast. This is very difficult to do if timbers are very close together side by side or end to end. Rail joints are the weakest parts of the track. Timbers on each side of a rail joint should be as close together as possible. This generally means joint timbers are spaced at no more than 25" centres, so that a standard fishplate just fits between the chairs. This isn't always possible, in which case wider joint spacings should be on the diverging track rather than the ...