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... much about different common crossing types, Templot ought to do it for you. To make the 3rd turnout, move the peg to the exit on the switch end and "make mirror on peg". That will make another turnout on the peg for you. to make the branch track off that, either use the "make branch track" or "make reverse curve" buttons. Fortunately Martin has made a lot of short cuts since the original versions and what used to take me days to work out now takes a few minutes. My "Earls Court Junction" box (see separate thread) took about 3 hours to do a rough version to see if it would work. and that is quite a large layout. Last edited on 23 Sep 2020 22:52 by roythebus posted: 23 Sep 2020 23:07 from: roythebus roythebus wrote: What I done was to change template to straight track; use the curve facility to make it the radius you want where you want it. so set that for 32" (having set ...
442. Banbury August 1965
... Jamie Guest posted: 30 Oct 2007 09:06 from: Nigel Brown Martin Wynne wrote: Here's an interesting pic linked from RMweb (Banbury in August 1965) Interesting locomotive (a Grange?) on the left as well. Seems to still have a number on the buffer beam, or the remnants of one. And something indistinct but could be an offset number on the smokebox. Nigel posted: 3 Nov 2007 04:20 from: Phil Hi all First posting and all that !! I believe that quite a few yards had a hump for shunting, even places like Stechford, between Birmingham New St and Coventry had a small hump many years ago. From what I've seen these humps tend to be quite near to the main line too. Just wondering whether this was such a shunting hump mebbe? Cheers Phil posted: 3 Nov 2007 13:14 from: Jamie92208 Hi Phil Yes many yards had humps for shunting but after further looking at the photo I didn't get it quite correct in my previous reply. The inclie shown at Banbury ...
... Martin Wynne p.s. Once you have started watching a forum section, you can manage the settings for it at any time: 2_261202_520000000.png posted: 26 Dec 2020 17:18 from: Martin Wynne Another niggle for me is the use of the term "thread" instead of "topic", but that is so deeply embedded in the software that changing it would be a major task. I think the only way would be to install a different language instead of English, with just that one word changed (and maybe a few others). But that's for another day (and I might be the only one who finds it so irritating). Martin. posted: 26 Dec 2020 18:10 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I'll digest that properly once I'm back home in front of a proper screen, but it would be a great shame if there wasn't a way to have individual emails for each post. As you say, with Templot it's hardly a deluge! I don't know about others, but I find it far easier to simply ...
... a 3-way stub point leading to a yard complex- the yard and 3-way each have their own tags, but if I want to move the lot I group by tag for each in turn to make one big group. The second method in your PS I've never used! In your PPS, yes, I do very occasionally have a template with multiple tags, and in my example above I could have had the 3-way with both [3way] and [yard] tags which would save a few mouse clicks, but I tend not to do that for some unknown reason! It should definitely be group if it contains any of the tags, and not all! I've attached a starting box file, this is the one on which I replicated the problem this morning. I'll attach the same file but with tags and renaming in a second. Cheers, Paul Attachment: attach_3069_3675_canalwharf_untagg ed.box 63 Last edited on 22 May 2020 09:35 by Paul Boyd 22 May 2020 09:30 from: Paul Boyd This is after ...
... front of the 2mm society track book almost shows this scenario but the turnout is not on such a curved piece of track and the checkrail stops before the switches. I'm modelling in 00-FS but find that book is such a valuable source of information for track building. 3137_240356_240000000.png Thanks Fraser posted: 24 May 2016 11:23 from: Martin Wynne FraserSmith wrote: I can obviously extend the checkrail for the V back towards the switch but would that happen? Hi Fraser, Yes, that's quite common. Here are a few pics showing such a check rail extended back to the switch: 2_240614_180000002.jpg 2_240614_180000001.jpg As you can see the check rail is extended as far as physically possible behind the switch rail: 2_230721_050000001.jpg To make room for the check rail chairs, bolted half-chairs are used for the closure rail: 2_230721_050000000.jpg On the GWR and BR(W) the check rail is actually attached to the back of the switch rail, using a fitting called a "check lump". To adjust check rail lengths in Templot, real> adjust check ...
446. Scissors crossovers
... Are they both prototypical? Hi Graham, In a type 1 scissors crossover the V-crossings on the diamond are in the turnout radius section of each turnout: 2_280306_090000000.png In a type 2 scissors crossover the V-crossings on the diamond are in the crossing entry section of each turnout: 2_280306_090000001.png colour codes: 2_280441_190000000.png Note that the type 2 scissors is shorter with sharper turnout curves, so you may need to use a longer size for the turnouts. Both types are equally easy to get to this stage in Templot with a few clicks. See below for the basic recipe. The diagrams above are in curved track, but it is the same for a straight scissors. However, to get beyond this stage to detailed templates with all rail conflicts removed is much easier in a type 2 scissors, because in that case the middle diamond-crossing is an ordinary regular diamond with all crossing angles equal. In a type 1 scissors the middle diamond-crossing will need to be created from multiple partial templates, and the V-crossing angles will differ ...
... topic: 3689 Invalid Floating Point posted: 3 Jun 2020 20:49 from: Julian Roberts Hello Martin I got this message this afternoon when creating a 3 way turnout. i was off-line but had used the PC in a separate session this morning on-line. I assumed it was something I was doing wrong in positioning the turnout, but couldn't get rid of teh message wherever I placed the turnout (within the few inches of space there is in the plan). However a friend tells me it is a fault and that I should report it. I assume my Templot version is the latest as it updates each time I go onto it (I think). It says 2.26.b Attach file just in case useful. 3 way was the one on extreme left of layout plan Cheers Julian Attachment: attach_3080_3689_Kyle_2020_3_June1 855_50.mecbox 81 Last edited on 3 Jun 2020 20:50 by Julian Roberts posted: 4 Jun 2020 07:31 from: Julian Roberts This morning Templot has sent an update, it is now 2.26.c Whether that is related ...
... lines show the rail-shape before work starts: 100_090834_280000000.gif 1. File the back of the rail until the web is just broken into. The prototype only reduces the end of the web by a sixteenth of an inch so don't go too mad! However, the web of most model rail is overscale so you may wish to reduce it's thickness to a scale eleven-sixteenths of an inch to avoid the switch looking too "chunky". It is essential to be as accurate as possible with the planing length as a few thou can make a lot of difference to the switch angle. 100_090834_570000000.gif 2. Put a set (that's a bend to you and me) in the rail at the planing length so that the end of the rail is aligned where the running face was (the picture should make this clearer). This location of this set is important since this affects the switch angle. 100_090835_180000000.gif 3. Plane the front of the rails at angle to suit the wheel-flanges. This planing should be to the full flange-depth ...
... 2020 20:43 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: Rob Manchester wrote: is there an easy way to remember which leg of each half diamond is referred to as approach/branch or exit tracks? When bringing one of the half diamonds back to the control I invariably choose the wrong one when wanting to extend the track....... Now that you've mentioned it, I have put a note in my notebook to make the difference more prominent in some way Hi Rob, I have made a few changes in the next program update which I hope will help: 2_291502_460000000.png 1. The turnout-road centre-line used to start from the switch heel mark. I have now extended it back to the switch toe. The reason for this is to provide a neater result when using the thick centre-lines only output option instead of diagram-mode output. But I often used the previous centre-line start as a quick way to identify the hand of a template in track plans when zoomed out. 2. ...
450. New starter
... ?swell_function_ctrl_f10.htm I don't make changes to the shortcuts lightly, but this one was forced by the introduction of the irregular diamonds. 1. Put the notch on the rail intersection for the middle vee in the usual way. I intentionally wrote that way to deter beginners from trying 3-way tandem turnouts until they are well-versed in Templot. Tandem turnouts are not simple -- it really would be better to leave them until later. At the very least please try a single slip first. If you watch the first few minutes of the transition-diamond video you will see how to put the fixing peg on a rail intersection. The video is at help> watch a video> Scruff Video Andrew transition diamond menu item. Note that for the tandem you need the peg on the rail-edge, not the track centre-line -- geometry> peg on line or rail> menu options. (If you are on a Mac computer or a mobile device, you may need to use the MP4 link instead.) Then geometry ...
... J chair was for. Here's an example of memory. How many times has Martin told people the difference between catch and trap points. (X is the device, but it's doing the job of Y). I still cannot remember which way around it is.. It's as hard as remembering who is who between 'ant and dec.' PS I'm not as old as I look/ sound- I just damaged my head a little while back. Hello Rob I'm terrible with faces, but always have been. A few times I've thought I recognise someone and talked to them like we were long lost friends whilst trying to remember their name(s) ... Only then to realise I'd never met them before. As an aside, I'm really glad I got back into railway modelling- it's nice to converse with people about, and let's be honest, something and nothing as opposed to the urgent matters of daily life. Keep well Derek posted: 15 Sep 2020 15:42 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: DerekStuart wrote ...
... Wynne All, If you use this link to access Templot Club: http://85a.co.uk/forum/ Most of the pages will come up secure, or with only yellow padlock. It would be worth changing your browser bookmark if you use one to get here. If you end up with the red padlock showing, possibly from a link in an email or an old topic, you can swap to yellow by clicking the top picture on the page, or by clicking the Recent Topics buttons. I've just made a few changes so that the Companion is also yellow. A complete conversion of the entire site to fully secure, and with all old links still working, is a major task. Given that there is nothing on here which needs to be ultra-secure, I will leave that for another day. cheers, Martin. posted: 4 Jun 2020 21:42 from: polybear Hi Martin, That's excellent- new bookmark duly sorted, and now the "Change Password" page is coming up as secure Many thanks Brian Parts ...
453. Timber Staining
... a butter tub, I put the sleepers in it pour in some Colron and put the lid on and give it a shake periodically and also leave it for 24hrs. I then pour the excess into another tub of sleepers. The soaked timbers are tipped onto a sheet or two of news paper and left out doors for an hour or so to dry. posted: 23 Mar 2015 13:22 from: Hayfield Rob I use diluted Coloron and paint un-cut strips, I find neat dye too strong. Do a few at a time smell is not too bad Last edited on 23 Mar 2015 13:23 by Hayfield posted: 23 Mar 2015 23:25 from: Andrew Fendick Rob, I spray paint the whole track before fixing it down, using Precision Sleeper Grime colour round the station area fading to Wheathered Sleeper colour outside the station area. I then hand paint the rail with a rusty colour. There are a couple of pics on the High Offley RM thread. High Offley msg #16 posted: 24 Mar 2015 00: ...
... together to hold them to gauge. It is something I hope the model a short section of one day. Tony W. 2151_071802_230000000.jpg 2151_071803_520000000.jpg posted: 8 Dec 2015 00:41 from: Matt M. Hi Tony, It was't just bomb damage replacement. They also needed to lay new sidings and loops due to the increased wartime goods traffic. Timber was hard to get and was reserved for main lines due to issues of resilience between the sleeper and the ballast. This is a particular problem as speed increases. With very few exceptions pots were only used in low speed applications. The pot sleepers are a compromise between material use and suitability for purpose. Hence the lack of tie bars on a majority of sleepers per length of rail. In a wartime and austerity settings they don't use too much steel or concrete. And don't use timber. During and post war a lot of energy was spent coming up with ways to make what would have previously been considered useless split timber sleepers be useable. Various clamps and straps and bolting formats were developed. ...
... browsers use a resampling image upscaler to provide a smoother result than a simple stretch of each pixel. Such resampling isn't available in Templot when zooming background shapes on the trackpad, because at the high zoom levels we normally need it would take forever and reduce the screen response to a slow crawl through treacle. But the result isn't very pretty or comfortable to work over: 1. map tiles as loaded: 2_241521_110000000.png It can also be confusing -- see for example how the platform edge has merged with the rail above. A few updates back I added a function to reduce the contrast of map images when working over them, which makes it a lot easier to see what you are doing -- here on the left: 2. low-contrast converted original: 2_241521_120000001.png But it still doesn't match the screenshot captures from smooth browser resampling. So I have found some old resampling code from Anders Melander which could be used in Templot, as a one-time conversion on the background shapes. It's very slow, several seconds per tile, but only ...
... topic: 2822 Glendale Vintage Railway posted: 17 Jan 2016 09:03 from: Richard_Jones A few photos for anyone interested in New Zealand railwaysBest wishes Richardundefined undefined undefined undefined undefined Last edited on 17 Jan 2016 09:09 by Richard_Jones posted: 19 Jan 2016 07:02 from: Richard_Jones Oops, should be Glenbrook, not Glendale! Apologies Richard Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> Glendale Vintage Railway about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You are welcome to use them for your own personal non-commercial purposes, and in your messages on this web site. If you want to publish any ...
... printed colour for all the timbers can be set in the output menu: 2_191449_050000000.png At present there is no option to mark individual timbers in a different colour. I suspect that you are not so much asking for a different colour, but for some means to mark individual timbers differently from the others. There has never been any demand for that in UK modelling, although modellers do often scribble notes on the templates. I believe in many other countries a popular construction method is to use soldered copper-clad laminate for just a few of the timbers, with plastic or wood for the remainder. (That wouldn't look good in the UK, at least for bullhead track, because chaired bullhead requires a different timber thickness from soldered construction). There are several clunky ways which you might achieve the desired result in Templot, but none very straightforward or helpful. For example you could duplicate a template, set a marker colour on the lower one, and then omit some timbers on the upper template in the shove timber functions so that the coloured ones from ...
... opened up some questions I really had not considered at all. Buffers and couplers... Imhad not really given any thought to buffers at all beyond the fact that the ones that come in plastic wagon kits dont seem as nice as they could be- i wasnt intending to replace them with sprung ones but just nicer non working white metal ones. For couplers I think I have decided on Spratt and Winkle- the 3mm versions with the mounting plates Wheel profiles- umm, here I am clueless Locos will initially be a few from bachmann or hornby( newer models) The wagons will have what comes in the Parkside Dundas kits? Axle sideplay... Well I can obviously guess what that is- had no idea it was something you could set or adjust Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Trackbuilding topics> 00-SF... so how tight can it go? about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z ...
459. outside slips
... ...I will check back in two years and see if you have managed to fit it in between the boat building sessions. Hi Rob, I'm looking at it. (The outside-slip function, not the boat). However, these two new peg positions do make it possible for any reasonably experienced Templot user to take it from there themselves, because you have got all the crossings and switches aligned for you. Which was not the case with the tandems before the make tandem function for example. Indeed quite a few users will likely use that outside-slip as-is, and pencil in the final details on the printed construction template. The drawback is that these new functions work only with a regular diamond-crossing (both roads the same radius). A full make outside-slip function ideally needs to work for irregular diamonds too, because irregular outside-slips are quite common. But that's a major task -- your two years might be optimistic. Unless the boat sinks. cheers, Martin. posted: 16 May ...
... /templot If you go there now you should get to a copy of the Templot Companion, although not all links have yet been converted. But please use the existing site for the time being. The web site is the easy bit. The real headache is going to be what to do with this Templot Club forum. The PHP code and MySQL database is all as old as Templot -- it was originally written by Aycan Gulez about 20 years ago. When Jim took it over he renamed it UltraBB and made a few improvements, and David Williams created the image gallery for it. But the core code is still much the same. Nothing has changed for at least 5 years -- the world has moved on from web forums to prefer social media on mobile devices. Jim says he hasn't sold a new copy of UltraBB for several years now. Naturally he makes sure it still works on his servers. But the prospect of moving a 20-year-old database to a different server running later versions of PHP and MySQL fills me ...
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