... reload it next time. Your track gauge will be set automatically from the final template loaded. regards, Martin. posted: 20 Jan 2011 12:28 from: Nicholas Geti Ok. I am working with the Storage Box. I understand now how it works. I assume that the blue field showing the Control Template (the one that is displayed when the Gauge is choosen) will change if I change the Control Template? What does the lower case letter on the template information screen next to the right/left arrows signify? It changes as I click the arrows. Is that just a reference to a page number in the help file? Printing. I figured out how the printing function works. It would be nice if it remembered that the printer was calibrated. I see that "print screen contents" shows the template very small in the upper left corner of the printout. I did not understand this hint when I first tried to print. The O Gauge switch printout matches exactly the actual one that I built last week using the ...

... until now I did not notice the small mark near the blade tips. I pivoted the blade on the mark closer to the frog/vee. Of course at times I get a quite long moving blade. Prototypically they look OK for me, as I'm trying to simulate simple trackwork as used by the Colonel Stephens.... what is the mark closer to the blade tips- should that be the pivot point? (giving me shorter moving blades?) In which case what does the one closer to the vee signify? Any comments or illumination tracking or pointing me in the right direction would be most helpful Thank you Robert posted: 14 Sep 2008 21:34 from: Martin Wynne Robert Kosmider wrote: When one prints up a template there are little cross marks/ dashes across each point blade. One is near the frog/vee end say 1/3 along, and another toward the point blade tip, say another 1/3 along. Hi Robert, Here's a diagram showing the various marks: switch_marks1.png The upper turnout is ...

... , Martin. Attachment: attach_810_948_ole_masts_at_240ft .box 266 posted: 22 Jun 2010 18:59 from: Alan McMillan Hi I've built OHLE on a couple of layouts now and am planning more on a third. I've developed the following method for placing the masts and setting out the wiring pattern. I push ordinary dressmakers pins into the track between the rails at all the important places (toe ends of turnouts, ends of sidings etc) and then string white thread between them, placing further pins at the appropriate points on the layout to signify mast positions between those earlier fixed positions. The pins and thread can be adjusted to give the correct amount of contact wire stagger at each mast position and span midpoints. The threads at mast and portal positions can then be used to create drawn templates for the construction of the wiring supports. Alan McMillan posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:10 from: Jamie92208 Thanks for those replies Martin and Alan. I'd forgotten about bonus timbers but will use them. Fortunately my OLE is all portal's so I can use long timbers that ...