... had gone to 45' lengths by cutting off the requisite numbers of sleepers per panel. I do understand to a certain extent the market has several types, these do have keys which I understand others don't plus the base is far superior than the old C&L and SMP bases posted: 26 Sep 2018 14:18 from: Martin Wynne Thanks John. Here's a list of pre-group companies which used 12" sleepers with wider joint chairs at rail joints: G&SWR GCR GER GNR *L &YR LNWR *MR *NER SE&CR*= with ordinary chairs at joints. Information from C. J. Allen, 1915. Martin. posted: 2 Oct 2018 06:59 from: madscientist I can't quite see the rationale for another OO track entrant myself. This would be doubly true if the pricing is significantly different to the other offerings. Exact track fidelity or worrying about chair key direction is not the hallmark of most OO modelers Last edited on 2 Oct 2018 07:00 by madscientist posted: 2 Oct ...

... ). The templates will highlight as you move over the labels. If the labels themselves are overlapping, select the first one, and move it out of the way (L move name label). You can then select the one which you want. regards, Martin. posted: 16 Aug 2015 15:03 from: DerekStuart Hello Martin Thanks for the reply. I understand now. I'm sorry it must be so irritating for people to ask the same questions again- I did try searching, but I think my terms were not right. BTW although still a Templot beginner, I think I am generally getting the hang of it all now and am so glad that I persevered with it. Thanks again for your help. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Duplicate templates about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time ...

... which they could share with others, or upload somewhere else, such as on one of the other model railway forums. If you let Templot update itself, the latest installer file templot_223b_setup.exe is in your C:\TEMPLOT_DEV\internal\upd\ folder. If you updated manually, that file will be somewhere else on your system in your browser downloads. (I can't put it on SourceForge because that hosting is restricted to open-source files.) The same applies to any future program updates. I will modify the terms of use to make clear that sharing the installer file is permitted, provided it is not for financial gain. 3. having the code available for others to modify in the event that the bus has done its worst, and the code will no longer install or run on later versions of Windows. Given the lack of interest so far in developing the code, that seems to be the main reason to retain the open-source version on SourceForge. In view of the above, I have decided to leave the code ...

... conjunction with shorter 9" 2-hole fishplates so that the joint sleepers could be very close together, typically at 15" centres with only a 3" gap between them. The theory being that strength in the rail support was more important than strength in the fishplate. Generally the theory fell out of favour in the light of experience. Here's a list of pre-group companies which used 12" sleepers at rail joints, mostly with wider joint chairs on them: G&SWR GCR GER GNR *L &YR LNWR *MR *NER SE&CR*= with ordinary chairs at joints. Information from C. J. Allen, 1915. In the post-grouping period their use fell away because it was not found to provide any advantage in reduced maintenance of rail joints to justify the extra cost. Except in special circumstances -- by 1926 the LNER drawings say "Special joint sleepers 12" x 5" may be used where the formation is soft or where the traffic is specially heavy and fast". Their drawing shows ...

... track book: In addition to that, track spacing has to be increased on sharp curves to allow running clearance for vehicle overhang. See the tools> dummy vehicle menu item for the tools in Templot to check and adjust clearances. regards, Martin. Martin, Many thanks- that makes a lot of sence i'll work on those principals. I'd found the 'dummy vehicle' instructions on the forum previously, so have made use of those. Are there any normal or standard figures i should be working to for curves- in terms of clearances? I seem to recall reading something previously about some form of approach to a curve as well, which i also need to go find and read up on. Thanks again for all your help Richie posted: 5 Oct 2017 16:19 from: Richie Kynaston Tony W wrote: Hi Richie Screen shot with check rail ends bent. 2151_050739_350000000.png Screen shot with check rail ends machined. 2151_050741_050000000.png The later would be more appropriate to your era. Regarding the track spacings of quadruple tracks, there are two main ways ...

... 17:38 from: d827kelly Phil O wrote: How many other software providers would provide such service, a bug reported and fixed in a little over 4 hours. Marvellous stuff Martin. Thanks Phil I can't think of many commercial software developers who'd have that sort of turn around. Only ones who might be as quick, would probably be Open Source projects using things like Git, where they can just roll back the changes that broke or patch in a fix a lot quicker potentially (assuming a fair amount of activity in terms of development of course). Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I found a flaw> adjacent track centres 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 ...

... for constructing one's own point& crossing work? Regards, Rodney Hills Last edited on 26 Jan 2018 12:01 by rodney_hills posted: 27 Jan 2018 05:03 from: Andrew Barrowman rodney_hills wrote: From Peco We would probably release the rail at a later date, but at present as we are concentrating on adding further turnouts to this range, That's interesting. I wonder why would they not release the rail now? It's not as if they would have to do any further development on it. Most likely their near term rail supply is fully committed to their track and turnout products and they don't think the market for the rail is very significant. posted: 27 Jan 2018 18:45 from: Richard Spratt Has anyone created templates for the new pecorino offerings? posted: 27 Jan 2018 19:43 from: Martin Wynne Richard Spratt wrote: Has anyone created templates for the new pecorino offerings? Hi Richard, Templates having the same footprint for track planning in Templot can be downloaded from: topic 294 (Peco Large Radius Turnouts). ...

... L plastic chairs on wooden sleepers. To avoid the risk of the same problem I thought I would do it the other way round. I found some almost black wood dye and put a few coats on the sleepers and then glued the chairs down. It was fine for a few months then chairs started coming loose.At first I thought it was the glue not sticking to the plastic so I tried various different glues, none of which worked reliably, until I realised the problem was the wood dye. Nothing sticks to it long term. it's like Teflon!Having built a lot of track and several turnouts I am rescuing the situation as it occurs by sliding the loose chairs out of the way, grinding off the dye with a burr to expose clean wood and then glueing the chair back in position with Evostick. It is extremely tedious and much more difficult to do in situ, but apart from ripping the whole lot up I do not see another solution.Next time it will either be plastic sleepers, or use a water based paint on the sleepers after ...

... , The video plays fine on my Linux setup using Firefox. Regards. Trevor. posted: 24 Oct 2017 21:30 from: Rob Manchester Martin -> "I agree, but first I need to be sure that the delivery mechanism is working." Martin, Of course you do, the bells and whistles I was commenting on were more to do with tweaks and changes to the font sizes, messages and such like( assuming you remember to take out the spacebar option). Do you get any analytics in terms of how many people watch the different videos? You could delay answering questions on technique until you had evidence that the poster has seen the video Rob posted: 24 Oct 2017 21:38 from: Matt M. Hi Martin, It works in Safari running on the Apple OS 10.. A little fuzzy as usual with Apple's display but readable and responds to the stop and restart requirement perfectly well. Matt M. posted: 24 Oct 2017 22:49 from: Paul Boyd Martin Wynne wrote: Despite mentioning this ...

... lose fine detail, although possibly not enough to notice. If you want to retain the full resolution and detail of the image, my suggestion would be to split the image into smaller sections. You can have several picture shapes side-by-side on the screen. Templot can then deal with them one at a time when loading and saving, and not all in one go. If you split your image into say 5 sections, each one would be about 4000 x 5000 which is still a large image in general terms. This would actually be beneficial for zooming and panning when working over the image in Templot, which otherwise is likely to be very slow. You could have each picture shape in a separate BGS file and load only the file(s) needed for the area which you are working on. Also I suggest saving it from Photoshop as a PNG file rather than JPG. The file will be larger, but Templot will have less work to do in expanding it, and the resulting internal memory requirement will be the same ...