... on Scottish prototypes, and CJF has a few partial designs at the end to help people design their own layouts. As an aside, the MRN also ran a layout page about the same era and the main contributors were people like Henry Pearson or Jack Shortland. Their designs tended to be based more on the actual prototype. But I always remember the contributions of R.G.Thomas to the item. These were quite rare and were mind blowing to a teenager like me who thought a double slip was some unattainable goal. I attach a sample from one of his few articles MRNLayout1.jpg MRNLayout2.jpg I've included part of the previous page to give the complete description of the design. The other design mentioned is a single track terminus which is quite attractive. The next month had yet another version on the theme with a much larger through station. I've always remembered these designs, principally because they always seemed completely out of my league as a teenager scratchbuilding TT-3 track with Peco spiked track kits. In retrospect, I wonder if it was Martin under a pseudonym, although ...

... 1993 "Railway Modeller" magazine at my local MR club last week, and there, also in glorious colour, your "Ready-to-run 0 gauge Hunslet" is the headline item in the 'Latest Reviews' section (page 472). The (anonymous) reviewer writes in glowing terms about the loco: "This super little shunter is really quite exceptional value, and represents a milestone in the history of gauge 0 model locomotives." Innovation indeed! I read therein that R.M. was supplied with the review sample by a delighted customer, not by the manufacturer (" who was pre-occupied with satisfying a considerable initial demand"). Did you you have much explaining to do to potential customers who took R.M .'s unfortunate presumed misprint as literal gospel? "Prices: RTR =£ 40 post free. Modeller's version [a simple kit] =£ 99 post free." I wonder what price examples are fetching at auction these days? Regards, Rodney. posted: 20 Oct 2007 04:17 from: Martin Wynne ...

... 37.5 inches Length of switch rail 202 inches Length of stock rail from joint 380 inches. But when I click on OK I get the message panel with ''Fail code 98'' I am hoping that this has been caused by inputting an incorrect value rather than a limitation. Any help would be welcome as we have our exhibition at the beginning of October, nothing like a deadline to raise the blood pressure. regards, Keith Johnson posted: 26 Aug 2014 21:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Keith, There are some sample 0n30 templates for downloading here: topic 28 regards, Martin. Last edited on 28 Aug 2014 21:23 by Martin Wynne posted: 26 Aug 2014 21:24 from: keithj15 Hi Martin I am using Templot v2.11a which I believe is the latest version Thanks for the link, I had already downloaded that box file when I started, but having been painted into a corner I still found it necessary to create something closer to the Peco as this is one of the demands (until I can prove to the guys ...

... need irregular diamonds, I suggest leaving the design as crossed plain tracks in the meantime. By the time you need the full template for track building, the required functions may be available in Templot. I discussed this at greater length with a preview screenshot at: topic 18 If you need a full irregular diamond template right now, it is possible to do it using multiple partial templates. Here is an example of such a double junction containing an irregular diamond-crossing on a transition curve: http://www.templot.com/samples/irreg_double_junct.box (Right-click and Save As...) To see how it is made up, hold down the Shift key or put the Caps Lock on, and then run your mouse over the template name labels. Here are the relevant notes: Only for Templot pug versions 077a or later. Sample P4/S4 double-junction with irregular diamond-crossing. Up main on transition to straight from 40 chains (10560mm) radius. Up branch on transition from 1500mm radius. 7ft way between tracks ( ...

... 23 Sep 2017 05:30 from: Andrew Barrowman Hi Martin, I'm well known for barking up trees. Some not entirely couth individuals have even suggested I was "barking mad". There is no question about the gauge. It's 4.125 feet. It's a question of what you want your model to represent, and that will always be highly subjective. Personally I see nothing wrong with applying a bit of Hollywood to make things look a bit different from what they really are, but that's just me. I think my sample looks a lot more like P4 than 00, but we can argue all day about that. Peco has been punting H0 as 00 for fifty plus years (and they got away with it). They could have split the difference quite easily with this new product but they chose not to. Considering the risks I can't really blame them. My evil plan is to present my "EM" layout to the experts before I expose that the gauge is actually 16.5 mm (really 16.2 mm). I must be a ...

... rubbish and should be ignored. Sorry about that. Provided you are intending to solder the rail vertical on the Vero pins, the holes for the pins should be drilled on the rail-head centre lines as previously indicated. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Jun 2015 19:35 from: polybear There's an engineering drawing of the vero pins here: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p /terminal-posts/6319596/- which indicates that the head diameter is 1.62mm. I checked my own samples (which I believe to be genuine vero pins but cannot confirm) which measured out at a nominal 1.64mm; however the heads on all samples measured were not a true circle and so this figure tended to vary from 1.57mm to 1.70mm depending on orientation. I guess you could be really picky and measure each pin, ensuring the positioning of the pin thru' the sleeper was such that the smallest dimension was across the width of the rail However, I personally found that the installation of half-chairs wasn't particularly problematic ( ...

... 33 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Tony. I didn't know anyone was still using the dots mode. I haven't tested it for years, so I'm pleased to know it is still working. Essentially it sends the image to the printer one dot at a time. Which should work on just about any printer. But takes a fortnight to do so. cheers, Martin. posted: 5 Jan 2018 00:33 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, As requested I am letting you have .box and .bgs files for a (sample) scanned track plan. The image was scanned at 200dpi greyscale on a Canon Lide120 via the Templot dialogue. The image was hand drawn at 1" to 1 foot scale. Using the size option of background shapes the image was increased so the 1 foot grid lines on the drawing match the 300mm grid lines ie the plan is 6 foot( 1800mm) wide as per the original. The .box file just has a single item of track. When printed at 100% on my Brother laser it prints the track but ...

... afternoon. It's really not a problem for me re building ET and I'm not suggesting it's a Templot issue as no one else has the problem. I'm just curious what's causing it and it might just help you in the long term if we can work it out between us. All the results are from the same computer. I have an old laptop that might just work and I assume I can download another copy of 2.13A. If I can set up the printers with my laptop, I might be able to get some samples. In this case the template is a dummy and is 18' long. I've already tried deleting it and generating a new one with the same result. Previous sample prints are earlier in the thread and those are curved and were from the Dell printer. I'll try to print the whole length of the template and see what happens. I wouldn't be at all surprised that other pages of the same template are OK, because the prints earlier in this thread did exactly that. Most were OK, but the same one ...

... ordinary Flash (SWF files). These can be easily embedded using the red flash.gif button. You can create SWF files with the free version of Jing. But AVI files work equally well, embedded using the media.gif button. Annoyingly, they start playing immediately, which can be a bit alarming if they include sound. They then have to be stopped and restarted from the beginning when the viewer is ready. Hi Martin, Thank you for the information, that's just what I wanted to know. I have looked at my sample program and find, it can produce either AVI or SWF files, so I have the choice. The limit of the file size might be a problem though, since the video of the irregular diamond is expected to be fairly long, even when edited, there's a lot of Templot manipulating to do to produce the final template. May have to make it into a set of small files like pages or chapters of a book, will have to think about this. BTW, the sample video looks good and works well ...

... (UK) switch of the pre-grouping (pre-1923) period. See this message: topic 299- message 1779 If you drag the slider forward to 2 minutes 35 seconds into the video (elapsed time shows bottom-right) you will see the switch front spacings being entered. But before watching the video read the notes about it in the above message. If you don't have any prototype switch data, you can let Templot use fixed timber spacings for the switch, and that's what I did in the sample templates which I uploaded for you. In that case Templot uses these settings (based on typical UK practice) which can't be changed: Switch front is timbered, i.e. rather than sleeepered. Spacing back from blade tips (points) to centre of J1 timber= 24.5" Spacing back from there to centre of J2 timber= 27.5" No other switch front timbers. Spacing forward from blade tips (points) to centre of T1 timber= 4" Remaining spacings up to the V-crossing as the current fill ...