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201. Autumnal gloom
... by "this hobby". Does he mean "railway modelling" as in the last paragraph, or "finescale modelling" as in the previous, whatever the latter is? Or what? I suspect he means P4 modelling or the equivalent, practised in the way it is practised today. Which may not be the Holy Grail it is often held out to be. Personally I'm hugely optimistic for the future. There is more investment on the commercial front (Bachmann, Hornby etc) than ever before, standards there are improving by leaps and bounds, and a healthy state there means a healthy future for railway modelling as a whole, including the dedicated modelling side. New technologies are just waiting to be exploited; DCC for example, where remote control of locomotive couplings, and electronically linked lever frames, are just two possibilities. Stuff in fact which is much more likely to appeal to the younger generations. Templot's a good example of using modern widely available technology, and a highly satisfying one. I'm afraid you're not going to be retired for ...
... should be in the archived copy at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/croydontramlink/message/18803- so I've raised that issue with the group's admins. Hi Rodney, If a Yahoo group allows image attachments they are distributed with emails but not stored in the message archive. There is nothing the group admin can do about it. The proper course in Yahoo's eyes is for images to be uploaded to the group's Photos or Files sections. Removing all stored attachments from message archives was their trade-off for the much improved and faster archive search functions which are now available on Yahoo groups. There's a completely revamped version of Yahoo Groups waiting in the wings, so it could be all-change again shortly. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Prototype pointwork design for dual tramway/railway operation about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important ...
... "? This is the "GWR SWITCH AND CROSSING PRACTICE- A Design Guide for 4mm Modellers" published by the Great Western Study Group. Essential reading! I'm assuming that you just accept the fact that some of the chairs will be slightly incorrect, or do you 'doctor' them in any way to replicate the correct bolt detail? I'm afraid life's too short I just accept them as they are, but I too am surprised that these aren't available. I take the view that what we do have available is a massive improvement on what was around years ago and take what I can get! posted: 14 Nov 2007 13:34 from: Alan Turner mattots wrote: Also, what is the difference in useage between the two types of checkrail chairs produced by Exactoscale (0.68mm and 0.8mm flangeway)? The 0.68mm is for crossings, the 0.8mm is for check-rail. Alan posted: 14 Nov 2007 13:43 from: Alan Turner mattots wrote: One interesting point that I stumbled across while flicking through it is on the sheet covering ...
... point rail D is as A but of the opposite hand, notched with a file to receive C. Assembled splice rail C is as B, soldered into the notch in D. Use high-temperature solder because the rail gets hot while sanding. If necessary stop and dip it in a jar of cold water. Using high-temp solder also reduces the risk of it coming apart later if you are using soldered track construction. E is a scrap of rail or metal strip temporarily soldered across the vee rail ends to improve stability while sanding. It can be left in place until you are actually building the track, and then the surplus vee rail ends are trimmed back as required. V is the result after making two cuts on the sander as shown. The bulk of the metal can be quickly removed with a coarse file or metal shears before finishing on the sander. The end result is an accurately aligned vee comprised of solid rail at the nose. All that then remains is to fettle the tip and blunt back the nose, as ...
... rail) in the usual way, rather than with the wing rail. You've quoted 00-SF as having "better running" than full gauge 00 many times. But the only difference is negative gauge widening thru turnouts. What's your reasoning on that? Jim's explained this. We observe that 16.5mm works on curves down to train-set radii without any widening. So we conclude that 16.5mm already includes some gauge widening, and for better performance on gentler curves we remove that built-in widening. But the main performance improvement comes from reducing the crossing (frog) flangeway gap. To keep things symmetrical* we need to use a similar size for the check rail (guard rail) gap. Adding that to the check gauge (which needs to remain fixed to avoid changing the wheels B-B) we arrive at the track gauge. Happily these two approaches both arrive at the same track gauge -- 16.2mm. And when tried, it turns out to work beautifully. *Symmetry isn't essential to work, and is in fact lost ...
... Anyone? The fact that the map prints in greyscale on a single page, but not when enlarged to the track plan (whereas a 1-bit map does) points to a shortage of system memory. But I know your system is well-specified and I have had much larger background scans printing here without problems. So I think this must be a driver issue with that specific printer. Likewise the failure to recognise that it is a monochrome printer. If the problem is memory-related you should be able to improve matters by using the lowest available printer quality/resolution, which I think in your case is 600dpi and more than adequate for construction templates. You may like to try printing to a virtual printer first, such as pdf995 (free) or Snagit or PaperPort. These programs will capture your template pages from Templot as an image file (and in colour), which you can then try printing using other software to make the greyscale conversion. Be sure to do a printer calibration via the same route if you adopt this ...
... -6in custom switch. 2. Copy the previous 15ft- 1:8 turnout to the control template. 3. Select the new 17ft-6in switch for it. 4. Change the V-crossing angle to 1:10 CLM 5. Adjust the lead length (by changing the crossing entry straight) until it matches the drawing. 6. Shove interlaced sleepers as required (the video skips that bit, it's too tedious to include). I have done the sleeper shoving very roughly, I'm sure you can improve on it. As far as I know we don't have a drawing for any sizes of sleepered junctions other than the 1:8, so it's mostly guesswork for the 1:10. Please ask if anything is unclear. regards, Martin. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Information extracted from the NER 95lb track drawings published by NERA. North Eastern Railway 1 in 10 Sleepered Single Junction with 17ft-6in Spring Switch ( ...
208. Switch Blades
... came out top of the results? And it has to be in paper form. I'm not going to produce the Templot docs in any format which can't be updated as I develop the program. So printed paper is out, sorry, until Templot is finished. It's very easy to print it out yourself if you need it printed, and some parts of the Templot web site are available in PDF format for that very purpose. The latest version 091b of Templot has an updated viewer for the Help texts, which also includes improved printing functions. It's very clear from feedback that most users prefer the video format for learning about Templot. So my time and effort will be directed towards that for the immediate future, rather than writing a book. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then 15 pictures per second has to be worth millions of 'em. My irritation with Graham, for which I've apologised and do so again, was not that he asked for information -- which I'm very happy to provide. It was his assumption that he ...
... topic: 667 An important announcement by C+ L Finescale posted: 21 Dec 2008 00:06 from: Brian Lewis An important announcement by C+ L Finescale Whilst watching Norman Solomon building turnouts on the latest Activity Media DVD- constructing templates, sticking down timbers, etc.- I was struck by the thought that I was doing this 40 years ago. Locomotives and rolling stock are so much more accurate that they were even ten years ago? So why haven't available track components reflected this improvement? Folk still create trackwork by building individual turnouts and 'stitch' them together with plain track using 'one size fits all' generic track templates. Surely we can do better than this? Well we have and as from the new year, a new era in track construction begins. Boat and aircraft kit manufacturers use lasers to cut components with amazing accuracy- as do model railway kit manufacturers in the US. It doesn't seem to happen here. But we are going to change all that. So for the past month I have been taking prototype track ...
... * I click on 'Delete to the Control and get* Confirm* and the blurb Now I reckon this must be the most confusing item in the whole of Templot for new users- and the greatest source of irritation to those more experienced. Deleting to the Control is the norm, unless you want to create a copy. So, if it is right, why throw up this confusion causing barrier? I suggest this is the reason what storage boxes often contains legions of duplicates. This whole copying business I think could be improved. Not necessarily as a replacement to the existing method, but as an alternative, if you know you require a duplicate of the control template, when right clicking could there not be a command, 'Store and background and create a copy.' ** ** ** ** Having highlighted the control template, I press an F key. Immediately I get> Handy Hint> and are asked to consider changing to skeleton draw. Now everything I said about 'Programme Information' above applies. ** ** ...
211. 0-XF or 0-SF?
... gauge or scale, 31.0mm could easily still be used and 0-XF files would still reload as 0-XF. I'm glad you are getting good results with 31.0mm, but I think Jim Snowdon (who originally proposed the sub-32 gauges) and the Gauge 0 Guild are both now agreed that 31.2mm (0 -SF) is the smallest recommended gauge, and that 31.5mm (0 -MF) is a better choice for a wide mix of wheels. The main purpose of the sub-32 gauges is to improve the performance of all existing fine-scale wheels. If you are going to say that only certain wheels can be run on your track, it would seem to make more sense to go to S7. Can I ask what size of flangeway gap you are using? If you use 1.2mm flangeways with 31.0mm gauge, the check gauge will be only 29.8mm. With wheels at 29.2mm back-to-back that leaves only 0.6mm for the flange thickness, otherwise the flange will hit the nose of the vee. Even Slater's ...
... : 7 May 2008 04:04 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: I like the proposed dialogue boxes- I expect that you are well prepared for the pressure you will now come under to release... Hi Howard, I don't recognise pressure. It's ready when it's ready. I started Templot in 1979, so that's 29 years and counting... Other things are more important at present. I'm currently working on PDF output for wide-format roll printers and the diagram mode output. I also want to improve or replace the entire Background Shapes functions with something more flexible and user friendly. Does this proposal allow you have one flare bent and the other machined on the same rail? Such things were quite common in the middle of complex formations. Yes. But you can do that now with partial templates. If you have "Great Western Railway Engine Sheds- London Division" (Wild Swan), on page 219 there is a photo of Reading I don't, but I will look out for it. Thanks for the tip ...
213. Firefox 3
... :27 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, You may have noticed this note above every message on Templot Club: Clicked a link? Arrived at the wrong message? Wait until the page has finished loading, click in the address bar and then press the Enter key. This is a timing bug in some browsers. I'm pleased to say that this bug has finally been fixed in Firefox 3. Firefox now re-positions the page automatically when rendering is finished -- just like Opera, but faster. There are other improvements too -- faster page loading, mouse wheel zooming can be text only or text-and-images option, easier to spot the active tab when you have lots of them open, etc. But fixing the above bug is the major highlight for me. So far Firefox 3 hasn't come up as an automatic update, no doubt to spread the load on the download servers. But you can get it now by going to: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox regards, Martin. posted ...
214. Admin: Forum upgrade
... doesn't add a great deal of functionality, because you could always do that by clicking the author name on the left. 5. There is a list of everyone who has visited Templot Club so far today, at the bottom of the front pages. Currently it is sorted in order of member joining date, rather than the more obvious order of visiting. That means I always come first! I will try to change this to something more logical. These changes arrived with the upgraded forum software. The main thing is the improved registration procedure, which so far has been 100% successful -- not a single spammer registration in 3 days, whereas previously I was removing a dozen or more every day. We also now have an assured upgrade path to future versions of the forum software, thanks to Jim Hale at Data 1 Systems. regards, Martin. posted: 28 Jun 2008 11:50 from: Paul Hamilton Great work there Martin- didn't notice a hiccup! posted: 5 Jul 2008 17:02 from: Martin Wynne I wrote ...
... The layout is looking great! It seems you had a good day out with it. I think you may have set some sort of record with the first public showing of a layout in 00-SF. Which is pretty amazing for me to see, after the idea lay dormant for so long. When I added "EM minus 2" to the gauge list in Templot 10 years ago, and called it 00-SF, it was purely for the sake of completeness. I had no inkling that RTR models would improve so much that they could be run unmodified on such good looking track. But hard on your heels is another 00-SF layout, and more excellent trackwork construction pics posted today by John (Hayfield of this parish): http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p =411440#p411440 Here's one of them: 1112jz2.jpg© Hayfield Thanks for the pics John. It's looking real good. I hope Rodney Hills is noting this flurry of activity for the http://00-sf.org.uk web site. ...
216. Crewkerne LSWR
... road mentioned by Martin plus the new 1960 'box. Regards, Rodney Rodney Hills posted: 1 Oct 2008 00:12 from: rodney_hills Martin Wynne wrote: Hi Rodney, I have now found the textbook this plan came from and scanned the accompanying aerial photograph. The yard on the down side doesn't look very busy. Don't go comparing this with a modern Google aerial view -- it's too depressing. Martin, Thanks for that. At least the line is still open and the Waterloo-Exeter passenger train service will be improved to hourly from Dec 2009, following the commissioning of the new passing loop at Axminster. Regards, Rodney posted: 8 Feb 2012 23:09 from: NickAnderton I'm trying to squeeze a 4mm model of Crewkerne into a 5m long room. I believe I am getting there by using the pedestrian and road bridges, which are part way along the platform, as a scenic break and curving the track around under them, loosing the rest of the platform. Martin, would it be possible to let me have the high ...
... things here may give you more flexibility in laying out curves cheers Nigel P.S can't think why operationally it wouldn't work. As a matter of interest, what sort of couplings would you use? Prototypical 3-link might be a bit of a pain. Last edited on 8 Nov 2008 03:18 by Nigel Brown posted: 8 Nov 2008 14:57 from: Raymond Dear All, Many thanks for your kind and most helpfull comments, I shall spend some time re-thinking it and see what I can do to improve the layout. To answer a few questions. Yes, the turntables are intended to be operational, probably manually, so that wagons can disappear and be 'emptied' or 'loaded'. For this, there will be twice as many wagons as needed, one loaded and one empty (That's why I have eighty WEP opens of 1, 2, 3& 4 plank varities so far). I will be using three links and intend the layout to be operational from both front and back to aid in this, using ...
... Switzerland showed me the finest railway system I've ever seen. The Swiss do their railways properly! Aside from that the quality of European rolling stock is far, far higher than even the best of today's British outline models and I couldn't resist it- I was hooked and a buying spree ensued! I used to scratchbuild British carriages to museum standard but I can tell you the ready to run stuff I have for this Swiss layout (and I have a great deal of it), particularly the Roco models, could not be improved upon and scratchbuilt models would show up in a poor light by comparison. You just can't duplicate their flush glazing and exquisite lettering! I think you have to do it in P87 because this type of complicated trackwork just won't work in standard HO- aside from which- it looks fantastic! Alan posted: 18 Nov 2008 01:53 from: Nigel Brown Hi Alan Just of a matter of interest, do you plan to use ready-to-run stock on your P87 track, or is there an extensive rebuilding ...
219. Double outside slip
... civil_engineers_do.asp Alan Last edited on 20 Dec 2009 20:57 by Alan Turner posted: 18 Dec 2009 22:26 from: John Lewis If anyone is interested there is an outside double slip in the Channel Tunnel. See: http://www.ice.org.uk/education/homepage/civil_engineers_do.asp I do not think this example is in the Channel Tunnel. John posted: 18 Dec 2009 22:58 from: awhite Alan McMillan wrote: Hi Tony This looks a bit better. regards Alan McMillan Thanks Alan. You most certainly have improved it. I'll print it full size tomorrow and see if it is possible I could build it from your new drawing. Regards tony posted: 19 Dec 2009 14:56 from: awhite Thanks Alan Makes a perfect template. I will probably build it for fun only as I'm having difficulty finding room for it as it takes up more space than anticipated over an inside double slip. Regards Tony posted: 20 Dec 2009 18:22 from: Brian Lewis Me neither John, although it does look similar to the Sonneville ...
... topic: 662 Admin: Photos on Yahoo posted: 16 Dec 2008 14:56 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Just a reminder for recent new members that we still have a Yahoo group annexed to this Templot Club site. It's well worth joining the Yahoo group to gain access to the Photos and Files sections. (Unfortunately unlike the message archive, Yahoo don't permit open access to these sections.) Yahoo have recently made some improvements to the Photos section. We now have a massive 100GB of storage space (effectively unlimited -- we have yet to scratch the surface of it), and pictures can now be displayed in their original uploaded size, no matter how large. There's some interesting stuff accumulated there over the past 8 years -- many thanks to everyone who uploaded it. If you haven't visited the Photos and Files sections recently, it would be worth having a look: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/photos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/files Here are a couple of example ...
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