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... Wynne leo_sandstrom wrote: Unless there is a 41 timber limit? If so, how do I enter timber spacings for a turnout that has more then 41timbers? Hi Leo, There is no timbering limit. When you have finalised the geometric design of the turnout, go to real> timbering> timbering data... menu item. For fill timber spacing (maximum) enter the smallest of the spacings in your turnout between the heel of the switch and the V-crossing (frog). This will ensure that Templot inserts enough timbers. Any excess can be omitted later. Do not be tempted to change this setting later as it will upset your timber shoving. If it turns out that there are too few timbers, you can add extra ones later as bonus timbers. Likewise do not change the geometric design of the turnout -- timber shoving should always be left until such things are finalised. Then real> shove timbers... menu item, or press the COMMA key. Select the first of those timbers (click on the ...
142. Re: Templot Tuition
... -- -- -- -- -- --- orders, licensing and installation: martin@templot.com user support: http://www.templot.com/forum main web site: http://www.templot.com posted: posted: 17 May 2007 16:28 from: Phil O Hi Bob Why not try doing something doing something less complicated and string a few ordinary templates together first before trying to do something specific this is how I started. First a couple of lengths of plain track try the curving and transitions then insert a turnout or two in the plain track then make that into a simple crossover etc. Then change the switch and crossing angles etc and before you know it you've got the makings of a layout it might not be what you want to build but you've spent a bit of time and produced something viable. Keep experimenting with the various options available and you will get proficient enough to produce the layout you want. I'm not sure about the interlaced plain timbers though but thats when Martin will be able to point you in the ...
... company and period. I don't have that information, and if I did the user interface for it would be a nightmare. I think there may have been a slight misunderstanding here, and I think it may have been in the wording of my question for which I apologise. I was not necessarily asking if Templot could do interleaving directly from the set of templates already contained in the program, I know it cannot (other than shoving timbers when in control), but what I was asking, was could I, by inserting the right data in a particular way, customize such a template. Here again I suspect not, because I can imagine, it would need extra timbers adding to the list, and putting the right data to throw and twist the interleaving timbers to the correct positions, however, that's only supposition on my part. I think on this one we should leave it alone for the moment, as I don't wish to take more of your time up in answering my questions. If you post a full drawing of an LNWR ...
144. Maps
... posted: 18 Feb 2009 14:35 from: rodney_hills Richard, The current large-scale mapping for England and Wales can be found here, may be of some use if you can still pick out your site and it hasn't be wiped out: http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planningportal/PcsMapIdentify?returnPage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epcs%2Eplanningportal%2Egov%2Euk%2Fpcsportal%2FMapReturnRect.asp make sure that you paste the whole thing into your browser. Watch out for any linefeeds and/or blanks inserted by mail systems. Just keep zooming in, you'll get to the very large scale mapping eventually. Regards, Rodney Hills Last edited on 18 Feb 2009 16:13 by rodney_hills posted: 18 Feb 2009 16:16 from: rodney_hills Richard, It might help if you told us where specifically you are looking at sizing.... Regards, Rodney Hills posted: 18 Feb 2009 17:32 from: richard_t rodney_hills wrote: Richard, It might help if you told us where specifically you are looking at sizing ...
... topic: 1372 Transition curves (again) posted: 18 Feb 2011 22:28 from: Robert Preston Please help. I've tried very hard with transitions, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. Please have a look at the attached file, bottom left hand corner. I want to join turnout 63 to curved track 64. So I make a branch track (template 68) from the turnout, and insert a temporary template (69) from template 64. Templates 68 and 69 are shown as centre line only, they approach each other closely, but do not quite touch. If the templates are extended, they do not intersect. Thus they appear to meet the requirements for a transition to be made between them. However, if I delete 69 to control and click on 68, "peg/align tools, make transition", I'm told it's not possible to make a transition between these two curves. What am I doing wrong? Oh, as a rider, is it possible to construct B6 slips in 00-SF ...
... how to make a run round loop such as used at a terminus station. I can get all the other bits in to the track plan but don't know how to put the peice in that completes the run round. This is, I pressume, the same situation as making a piece of track to join any two turnouts on a track plan. Anybody give me a quick answer? Regards Rob posted: 7 Feb 2011 19:18 from: Phil O Hi Rob I normally use TOOLS, MAKE DOUBLE TRACK and the insert the turnouts using TEMPLATE, INSERT TURNOUT IN PLAIN TRACK. USE control F9 to move the template to where it's required. It may be necessary to use TOOLS. MAKE SPLIT to add further turnouts. If your track centres are fairly wide apart you may also need to use TOOLS, MAKE BRANCH TRACK to make up the distance between cross over turnouts. HTH Phil posted: 7 Feb 2011 19:46 from: Jim Guthrie Rob Manchester wrote: Hello all, After a slow start with Templot things are starting to make ...
... you will find dozens of examples of answers to all your other questions. The nature of your questions indicates that you need more practice with simple stuff before you go anywhere near a single slip- if you come to this forum with EVERY issue I think you will get frustrated- not least because you will not understand half of the answers you get! My suggestion as to how to get to grips with all of this would be HAVE A PLAY- make some PLAIN track, lengthen it, curve it, mirror it, insert a turnout into it, hand that, end-to-end that, make the approach track separate etc. and just SEE WHAT THE MENU ITEMs DO. Don't try to create your perfect layout for a first attempt- create LOTS of simple things first and just throw them away when you have learnt from them. I also think it essential to work through ALL the video tutorials in order to get exposure to the functions- all I have written above is demonstrated in the basic tutorials. The complete list of videos ...
... self explanatory. I was thinking of using "curviform" because that is a term which Templot already uses to denote a crossing in which the radius in the diverging road differs from that in the main road. Even that is strange term -- in earlier versions they were simply called "curved" crossings. That caused no great problem in the UK, but in the USA and elsewhere there is a mind-set that all crossings are dead straight -- which caused confusion with the simple case where a regular crossing is inserted in a curved main. In all the development of Templot, the biggest single headache has always been the choice of words. I tried countless different options for "the control template" before finally settling on that form. Until very recently it was the "current" template -- which invited confusion with the currently selected stored template, and failed to make clear its unique nature representing the generator output. Another constant bone of contention has been "point", which in the UK is used erroneously by a great many ...
... Templot minnow. Or, should I just forget the whole idea and just use the rails to build the turnouts once it is printed. Hi Bruce, That's looking great. Thanks for showing it and uploading the file. I'm not sure why you are having trouble with Y-turnouts? It seems at first glance that all your Y-turnouts could be easily achieved with ordinary negative curving (contraflexure). You already have some such turnouts, such as the one leading to the turntable. All you need to do is insert a turnout in whichever of the two roads of the Y is the main route, and then adjust it with F5 and F6 mouse actions until it matches the required diverging route. Be sure to change the V-crossing type to curviform. Achieving a perfectly symmetrical split-deflection Y-turnout is a bit more tricky, but there is a tutorial about that at: http://www.templot.com/martweb/y_symm.htm It's a bit out-of-date, and some of the methods have been made easier by ...
... 44 from: Dellboy Martin Wynne wrote: Dellboy wrote: Horses were used to haul road wagons as late as1961, I don't know when they were lasted used by the railway companies for yard shunting. Hi Derek, See: topic 1047 which I have posted in a separate topic because of the instant audio. regards, Martin. I wouldn't have guessed it was as late as 1967. Thanks for that Martin. I recognised the horse in the film as being the one on an old image file I have which I have inserted below. Derek 1821_141439_220000000.png posted: 14 Feb 2010 21:25 from: Martin Wynne Dellboy wrote: I recognised the horse in the film as being the one on an old image file I have which I have inserted below. Hi Derek, Many thanks for that. We have been here before, see: topic 161 The matter of interest being the alternate-only chairing on the timbers for the turnout rail of the catch points. That image is much better quality than the online clip, so it must be taken ...
... centre as the running lines. Nor is 68, which appears to be on a much larger radius, and not forming a proper crossover with 67. I have to go now, but I will look at it again later and post a revised version. regards, Martin. posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:43 from: Richard_Jones Hi Martin, Many thanks for your observations- I'll have a play about with the templates again this afternoon and see if I can sort it by starting again from plain track and re-inserting the turnout before forming the crossover. cheers Richard Last edited on 30 Aug 2013 14:15 by Richard_Jones posted: 30 Aug 2013 13:08 from: Richard_Jones Richard_Jones wrote: Hi Martin, Many thanks for your observations- I'll have a play about with the templates again this afternoon and see if I can sort it by starting again from plain track and re-inserting the turnout before forming the crossover. cheers Richard Hi (again) Martin, That seems to have done it Obviously I can't see the wood for ...
... I've searched the forum and folowed the guides but I still can't get an accurate drawing. All I need is two 4' x 2' boards end to end, then on the R/H end of these a 3' x 2' turned right through 90 degrees to form an 'L' shape. On the bottom edge of the 3' x 2' another 4' x 2' is added to extend the 'L'. I was hoping to be able to have an accurate baseboard drawing so that I can insert my track in exact location. Failure no.2 was in trying to build an accurate copy of my C+ L tandem 3 way turnout which is the centre piece of my layout, as trackwork goes. Like I said I've read the tutorials and tried to follow the '3-way tandem turnout in EM' data file as a guide. Gpt halfway through a dozen times then just swore at the screen, repeatedly. Some of the controls in the video don't seem to exist in my version of Templot and I got annoyed ...
153. Lancaster Green Ayre
... mssing form the other set of drawings. here is a pdf of the cross section. Attachment: attach_739_948_greyhound_portal.pd f 399 posted: 1 Mar 2010 08:51 from: Jamie92208 HELP PLEASE I am now progressing well with the first set of baseboards and hopefully will start laying track in April when I can move the boards to the clubrooms. In the meantime I am trying to tidy up the rest of the trackplan. I am having trouble with the right hand end of the layout as you look at the plan. I have inserted a trailing crossover on the curve and this will be used a lot during shows as a constant shuttle of EMU's will use it to reverse, twice in every cycle. There are however two constraints and I am having trouble meeting these. 1. The layout has been designed at 90mm track centres but the fiddle yard (Which is from my old layout) is built at 83mm. This means that on the curves at the ends the track centre's need to converge to match the fiddle yard. 2. The crossover needs ...
... /forum/viewtopic.php?f =66&t =39922 This is the second draft, modified after comments on RMWeb. Please note I have not shoved any timbers yet and the two crossovers need to be modified to become single slips to allow running round using the up and down lines. Thanks in advance for any help recieved. Brian. Attachment: attach_637_919_plan3.box 402 posted: 5 Aug 2009 18:55 from: Alan McMillan Hi Brian I've done some cleaning up on your template, smoothing out some of the turnouts and inserting some transition curves to take away from the slight "set-track" look it had previously. Hope you approve. Regards Alan McMillan Attachment: attach_638_919_Devon_Mainline.box 402 Last edited on 5 Aug 2009 18:58 by Alan McMillan posted: 6 Aug 2009 00:01 from: Nigel Brown Hi Brian A few ideas. How about (a) Converting the upper platform to an island platform, and swapping the main buildings to the lower platform. This would involve moving the station down just a bit, but not much. ...
155. Switch drive mark
... my Google email so I don't understand why it hasn't appeared in Templot club, mind you I noticed that sometimes when I post emails it doesn't appear on the Templot club forum. Hi Len, Please don't post by email if there is no need. Every email message from Templot Club contains a relevant link to the Templot Club web site and this request: "Please use the above link to reply to this message. Replies by email will be subject to delay." If you post by email, I have to manually insert your message in the appropriate topic on Templot Club. Hence the delay until I'm next online, and it's extra work I could do without. I have explained this several times. The email posting facility is there for folks who are unable to post messages on the web site for some reason, such as while they are at work. What's more, if you post to the Yahoo group as you did, all attachments are stripped out by Yahoo. I've had a look at your .box file and it has printed correctly ...
... of point rodding to convert a pull action into a push action. It's important that the total length of a rod connection in "pull" should be equal to the length in "push". This cancels out any movement at the far end caused by thermal expansion along the way. Often pulls can be converted to pushes where the rodding passes through angle cranks to cross under the rails, and this determines the exact location of such a side swap. Where equality can't be achieved that way, compensators such as these are inserted in the rodding run: 2-throwrods.jpg© Neil Fraser Image linked from an interesting page of switch details and detection gear at a ground frame -- click the small images: Side-tracked. Martin. posted: 28 Jan 2009 09:33 from: Martin Wynne I wrote: It's important that the total length of a rod connection in "pull" should be equal to the length in "push". p.s. That assumes of course that the entire rodding run is likely to be at the same temperature ...
157. Slips
... notes are not clear then refer back to the video. Mike Johnson posted: 6 Mar 2011 13:45 from: Martin Wynne sm wrote: I'm still none the wiser, why can't the Templot just have a slip template that can be dragged and dropped like the turnout templates? Hi Stuart, in a double slip there are 2 V-crossings, 2 K-crossings and 4 switches. All 8 of which have a multitude of variable settings. And then the whole lot needs to be curvable onto any radius or inserted wholly or partially in a transition zone. Not forgetting to allow for all the differences in prototype practice, UK and worldwide. And every model gauge from Z gauge to 5" gauge and larger, including all the narrow-gauge variants. You write the code and I will incorporate it into Templot. Seriously, using partial templates is the only sensible option. It also matches prototype practice -- which is always our first point of reference, rather than a model track catalogue. If it's a straight slip and you ...
... in stretcher bars running in slots in the web of the stock rail. Notice the joggled stock rails. For these GWR old-pattern switches the joggle depth is 3/8" and the joggle return length in front of the tips is 4 inches. The later GWR and BR(WR) curved flexible switches have a less severe joggle -- the joggle depth is 1/4" and the joggle return length is 6 inches. Another point of interest to note is that for pointwork the GWR used chair-screws inserted from above. The well-known GWR-style track with through-bolts inserted from below and nuts on top was used only for plain track. Fixings which can be removed and replaced from above obviously make maintenance much easier. Mick Nicholson has sent some more notes about the original pic. Which is not a facing-point lock of course. I don't know whether such inside detection gear would normally be fitted with a protection cover like a facing-point lock. Anyone? The FPL cover ramps tend to be ...
... that you have to do all this only once. Thereafter you will be logged in automatically every time for 5 years, if you simply let your browser do that. (Or until you click "Logout" or change your computer.) *Don't do this if you are accessing Templot Club on a public computer shared with others, and in that case be careful to click "Logout" when you have finished. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Nov 2008 16:02 from: Brian Lewis Hi Martin, Comments inserted below. Regards Brian Lewis Martin Wynne wrote: You don't have to remember it -- your browser will do that for you. It really is time you, Keith N and others stopped peddling this fallacy. With today's activity, is is a wise precaution to 'wash' your data with one or other forms of spyware- CCleaner or similar, every few days. As soon as you do this, all retained passwords, cookies, etc. saved in Thunderbird are removed. If you are using Firefox or Internet Explorer ...
160. 4mm films on YouTube
... Head Junction trackplan. It was he who suggested the name Grisedale, and it is real honour do do this. The track used through most of the construction was from C& L Finescale along with their excellent templates. The pointwork in the fiddleyard is constructed from SMP with copper clad sleepers. The technique used with the C& L pointwork was the method put forwards by Iain Rice using ply sleepers with rivets. After the trackwork had been wired and tested, the C& L chairs were cut into two halves and then inserted either side of the rail and held in place with a suitable plastic solvent. Ballasting was with the usual method of putting the ballast on dry and then the mixture of water, PVA, and washing up liquid to hold it all in place. The points on the scenic part of the layout are all operated by Tortoise motors controlled along with the signals from a lever frame from Model Signal Engineering with one slide switch behind each lever. Issues and problems: The first summer caused some of the pointwork to warp slightly due ...
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