... sequence you laid out when I was designing this layout, that is I created two complete ovals representing the Up and Down lines with transition curves( easement to straight) on the curves Then I inserted the turnout and then created a" ordinary crossover" This works fine where the other crossover is also on the transition However in this case of the" loop" line, the crossover is too a straight track in this case I find the toe of the turnout does not align correctly and the K is not 180( or 0) but 0.07 etc, i.e. off by a bit By the way is there any way to speed up the tedious process of correcting lengths, I use snap features sometimes as I keep forgetting what all the peg acronyms mean( a drawing would be useful to print out by the way!) Thanks re clearances, 80mm was the number given in the Gauge 0 manual, it seems a little tight alright time to start version 2( as I discovered that in practice I cannot have curved crossovers on 6'foot radius main ...

... Posted by email by Ian Jewell____ Wild Swan published a three part (so far) work on New Street, by Richard Foster. (Full title, Birmingham New Street, The Story of a Great Station, including Curzon Street.) Part 2, 1860 to 1923, and part 3, 1923 to 1947 both have track plans, not apparently altered much between 1920 and 1947, and part 2 also has a layout of platform level buildngs. Both lavishly illustrated. Part 2 published in 1990, ISBN 0 9068707907 Part 3 pub. 1997 ISBN 1 984103 37 2 regards Ian posted: 15 Apr 2010 19:46 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Ian, Thank you for your response, boy are you guys helpful. As strange as it may seem, I have just ordered the very same three books from 'British Railway Books' this very afternoon. I had fortunately heard about them from another source only yesterday via an email. I do so thank you for thinking about my problem. As things are working out, you Templot ...

... heads and nut/bolt/washer detail may be good. Food for thought. Thanks very much for your input. Rob Rob, I'm assuming the square screw heads would be about the same as those used for bullhead chairs. What would the approximate dimensions of the clips be in your estimation? I have some FB Code 100 and I can take a shot at printing some samples of sleepers with clips to see how it looks. I've half a mind to dump all my 00 stuff and switch to (battery powered) 0, so it won't be a waste of time Andy posted: 8 Feb 2018 04:30 from: RogerW Light rail track- the track that we have at Hunsbury Hill is mainly 75lb and a few bits of 65lb. All is flat bottom, mostly spiked with cast steel baseplates to get the correct inward slope of the railheads, and hole for the four spikes. There are also sections using standard chair-screws with big lipped rectangular washers with a flat baseplate with two big holes to take the chairscrews, we ...

... topic: 1193 Track plan tutorial again- Track handedness, negative radius turnouts and crossings posted: 10 Aug 2010 10:16 from: grog_polymer In the Track plan tutorial it also says that looking from the peg at Pos 0 RH refers to the direction of positive radius. This seems really bizare as a track curving to the left is considered to be Right Handed but with negative radius. I don't understand that. There are also a couple of references to shorter crossings being acceptable for turnouts with significant negative radius. Is this due to the fact that the deflection through the crossing is shallow on both roads? Regards, Greg posted: 9 Nov 2010 14:43 from: Martin Wynne grog_polymer wrote: In the Track plan tutorial it also says that looking from the peg at Pos 0 RH refers to the direction of positive radius. This seems really bizare as a track curving to the left is considered to be Right Handed but with negative radius. I don't understand that. There are also a couple of references to shorter crossings being acceptable for ...

... to unlock 90% of what Templot can do, you must understand how this works. But apologies if you have already found this. PEG: It is the red crosshair NOTCH: It is the white square Put down a turnout (a B8) and you should see the PEG at the toe (the sharp end). Firstly go to the GEOMETRY menu and have a look at the bottom two options PEG POSITIONS and PEG ON LINE OR RAIL. Select different options and see what it does. Now press CTRL-0 ,CTRL-1... CTRL-9 and see what it does with the PEG. Now, press CTRL-0 to put the PEG back to the TOE. Right click your mouse and PEG OPTIONS>>PUT NOTCH UNDER PEG and you will see the white square (NOTCH) appear around the PEG. Now right click and STORE& BACKGROUND Now put down a B6 turnout. Again press CTRL-0 to put the PEG at the TOE. Right click PEG OPTIONS>> SHIFT ONTO NOTCH and ...

... HIH Last edited on 10 Aug 2010 11:28 by richard_t posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:39 from: Martin Wynne grog_polymer wrote: This specific issue: I had added the works siding by adding a branch track from the loop to works siding. I have tried to make a transition to straight to make the end of the works siding straight. No matter which end I put the peg the straight always ends up at the turnout. 1920_100452_420000000.png Hi Greg, A transition curve always "starts" from the CTRL-0 datum end of a template: trans_marks.gif It doesn't matter where the peg is -- that controls the alignment to adjacent tracks. In the case in your screenshot, the CTRL-0 end is at the outer end of the siding. You can see that because the peg is at the inner end, and the peg indicator is showing "1". The two ends of a plain track template are CTRL-0 and CTRL-1. Also Templot draws a marker line across the rail ends at the CTRL- ...

... 13 May 2019 20:14 by Jim Guthrie posted: 13 May 2019 20:21 from: Martin Wynne Hi Godders, For a diamond or slip it's best to start with the vees, as Phil says. That's because they need to be exactly the correct distance apart, to allow the other rails to align correctly. That also means printing a template for exactly the gauge which you are using. In other words don't try to build 00-SF 16.2mm say, on a 16.5mm gauge diamond-crossing template. Or 0-MF 31.5mm on a 32mm gauge template. Print one for 00-SF or 0-MF, it will be a fraction shorter. For a regular-pattern V-crossing on a curve, both legs of the vee should be curved to the same radius. Curve them after making the vee, to match the template. It's worth printing a rails-only copy of the template on tracing paper or OHP film. That can be laid on the rail tops during construction to check the rail alignments. If ...

... posted: 1 Jan 2015 09:59 from: Simon Dobson Thanks both. I don't have the book (I guess I should simply buy it!!!) so I'm grateful for the comment about equalised incremental sleepering, which is an easy change, I hope. What is not so easy is to elongate the blades- the layout is a classic quart in a pint pot, (please see link at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/79052-porth-dinllaen-in-0 /page-5 #entry1723851- actually the previous page but the RMWeb server isn't serving at the moment) Moving the crossings relative to one another would allow an increase in the wing rail length as suggested, but this is back to the track layout itself. Ideally, an extra foot between the lounge door and the end wall... In any case, I will make the wing rail as long as I can without fouling the flangeway of the middle road. Thanks again& HNY Simon posted: 1 Jan ...

... , i guess i'm going to have to define the length of each print. I'll try it with just a point. posted: 14 Sep 2019 18:46 from: Tom Allen ok, i tried it with A3 size listed and it printed it within the limits of an A3 page. So defining a width and length is a must with this printer. One other thing has arose from this print, which is a "control template". There are shaded lines being printed from the edges of each sleeper to the 0 point. posted: 14 Sep 2019 18:57 from: Martin Wynne Tom Allen wrote: So defining a width and length is a must with this printer. Hi Tom, I've been trying to tell you that all afternoon! One other thing has arose from this print, which is a "control template". There are shaded lines being printed from the edges of each sleeper to the 0 point. Yes, that's a known bug in 2.23.c. See: topic 3500 You can avoid it by printing the template ...

... design I would be doing everything I could to change the track plan to use a tandem instead. Sorry, you lost me with your question about moving the switch. In the classic 3-throw design, each switch consists of one long switch blade, and one short one. Here is the GER drawing of such: 2_280950_180000000.jpg In Templot it would need to be assembled from partial templates. It's doable, but I'm not convinced it could be built reliably in GOG-F. At the very least I would change to 0-MF. Wider than scale model flangeways make it impossible to follow the prototype exactly. (0 -MF and GOG-F can be mixed on the same layout.) Both switches are loose-heel types, certainly the flexible "A" switch which you used for your left-hand switch would never be found in a 3-throw. We have been here before, here is my 11-year-old reply to the same subject: topic 911- message 5256 Tandem turnouts instead: http: ...