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... a Temploted 1:8 crossing. I have got this as near to correct as I can. It is obvious that there are imperfections in the drawing, partly due to photocopying (probably a number of times) and also inaccuracies in the drawing itself. My first problem is that the 2 crossing fine points and the center of the crossover should line up by the basic laws of geometry, unless I am missing something. For the moment I have put this problem to one side and concentrated on the turnout. Ignoring the sleepers, wing rails and check rails (which I think I can handle) I have tried constructing a turnout to match the drawing. As I don't know if it should be a straight, curved or semi curved switch I have made all three. I must admit that in my ignorance my methods have been largely hit and miss, guided a little by Templot Companion. Attached is the relevant Box file. I will also post the Shape file and the two scans. I would be grateful for any advice to help me ...
... topic: 3822 Modelling metre gauge turnout in 1:87 (12mm) posted: 24 Nov 2020 21:08 from: Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller Hallo! I am working on a turnout from the Railroads on Bornholm (De Bornholmske Jernbaner, DBJ). It is a 1:9 turnout, Radius 130 m, timber is 185 mm width and 1800 mm length, adding 100 mm in length to the timber, sleeper is 1800 mm length and 185 mm width. I have attached three pictures, one with the complete turnout overview and one detail of the switch part. The third is my model of the turnout in Templot: 3585_241550_030000000.png I have tried to model it in both a curved and semi-curved version, mainly because I really could not figure out what it was precisely. The version you see above here is the curved version. I think it fairly good. I have attaced the .box file as well, and this turnout is placed in x: 193 and y: 729. As you see on the picture, the timbering ...
... topic: 1389 Exporting sleeper only to .dxf posted: 25 Feb 2011 07:53 from: Stuart Mitchell HI.. I would like to print some sleeper bases on my 3D printer and was wondering how I could export just the sleeper to .dxf format. Stuart Mitchell posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:42 from: Martin Wynne Stuart Mitchell wrote: I would like to print some sleeper bases on my 3D printer and was wondering how I could export just the sleeper to .dxf format. Hi Stuart, On the DXF dialog, use the drop-down list on each item to change the colour to none, for each item which you want to exclude from the file: 2_250341_510000000.png 2_250337_100000000.png 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> Exporting sleeper only to .dxf 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 ...
... topic: 2137 LNWR plain track in Templot posted: 11 Jan 2013 14:46 from: Martin Wynne On RMweb, Brassey, on 11 Jan 2013- 13:13, said: Martin, can Templot be configured to the LNWR sleeper spacings? Hi Peter, Yes -- assuming you know what they were for your prototype and period. My information for LNWR is as follows (from C. J. Allen, 1915): 60ft rails, 24 sleepers per length. Spacings to sleeper centres from rail end: 12" to first sleeper 1 space at 27.3/4" 21 spaces at 30.1/2" 1 space at 27.3/4" 12" to rail end. Total= 720"= 60ft. End sleepers 12" wide. All others 10" wide. All 9ft long. Heavier chairs than standard on the wider end sleepers. If you need more LNWR data, the LNWR Society should be able to help. Stuart Hince has written a tutorial on setting up custom rail lengths and sleeper spacings in Templot. ...
... topic: 3096 Matching the new PECO bullhead in templot posted: 6 Oct 2017 23:28 from: madscientist Hi My actual requirement is to build 00-SF points that will flare out to match PECO bullhead, was wondering if there is anything that matches the timbers of the PECO plain track in Templot I dont need to match it up to the new PECO bullhead point work so what I need is 00-SF with PECO bullhead sleepering thanks Dave (PS I dont have any PECO bullhead yet, so thats part of the issue, its on its way though) posted: 6 Oct 2017 23:50 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: Hi My actual requirement is to build 00-SF points that will flare out to match PECO bullhead, was wondering if there is anything that matches the timbers of the PECO plain track in Templot I dont need to match it up to the new PECO bullhead point work so what I need is 00-SF with PECO bullhead sleepering Hi Dave, I suggest you flare the Peco bullhead to match ...
... topic: 3714 Estimating quantities of rail, chairs and sleepers posted: 7 Jul 2020 17:29 from: Fergus Duncan Is there an easy way to estimate quantities of rail, sleepers and chairs from a Templot plan? posted: 7 Jul 2020 18:37 from: Martin Wynne Fergus Duncan wrote: Is there an easy way to estimate quantities of rail, sleepers and chairs from a Templot plan? Hi Fergus, Welcome to Templot Club. To get various totals, click: 2_071327_010000000.png Since the above screenshot was made, totals for pointwork timbering and plain track sleepering are now shown separately. In the next program update 227a coming soon, there will be an additional breakdown of timber lengths: 2_071331_520000000.png cheers, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Estimating quantities of rail, chairs and sleepers about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members ...
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... topic: 3808 hello posted: 3 Nov 2020 20:43 from: Ian McKee Greetings, I have been studying Templot for a while, but since I don't have much free time, progress is slow- but I have managed to print out my first ladder crossover with two B-6 turnouts across four main lines. I am working in OO-SF, want to build the turnouts, and am using DCC concepts flexi track, and hope to install some concrete sleeper track using C&L sleepers and chairs, all in stainless steel track. I have an aspirational plan for the loft which is 5.3m by about 2.6m, restricted by the roof supports/ trusses. The open baseboards all constructed, with some track base for an outside loop. The priority is to get that running, so hopefully my 4 year old daughter will spend some time with the trains while I footer about on the next stages. Other elements may or may not follow, such as Waverley, Glasgow Queen Street and Oban stations, with a section of the ...
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... topic: 1540 Odd printing result posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:23 from: Gordon S Hi guys, strange one that I need some help with. No doubt it is something obvious, but I can't see it... Printing off 30 odd pages and one page only has the rails missing and only shows the sleepers. I've tried most obvious things but cannot find the error. Any ideas? 479_170322_540000000.jpg posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:15 from: Jim Guthrie Gordon, I could be facetious and say "scrap thieves". But I note that there is also a rail missing on the adjacent page. Jim. posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:30 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, That's very odd. There are no settings which can apply to an individual printed page. All settings are based on individual templates, or apply to all the pages. However, as Jim says it seems to be more than one page, and on the second page there is just a tiny fragment of rail showing at the top ...
... Brian Nicholls wrote: I would be grateful if you will give this a whirl and see what it looks like, how it fits in, and if all dimensions work out OK Hi Brian, Many thanks again. You can see that it has worked out fine with the dimensions 213mm x 140mm correctly set: 2_091701_060000000.gif I'm a bit puzzled by the texture between the rails and no rail fixings visible. For a girder underbridge this would usually be rails chaired on waybeams with the metalwork visible, or else ballasted on a deckpan with sleepers visible. Is this old-style ballasting over the sleeper tops? For incremental span lengths I don't think there is a prototypical figure. Bridges tend to be designed to fit each site. You could perhaps provide the two end sections (actually we only need one of them, it can be mirrored to provide the other end), and two or three different lengths of middle sections which can be stretched slightly by the user if necessary. You could also perhaps provide an end section with the two sides offset for skew ...
... topic: 2683 Irish 3ft Gauge track posted: 8 May 2015 16:16 from: Ian Bunch Does anybody have any information on the dimensions of Irish 3ft narrow gauge track? Specifically sleeper dimensions and spacing. A templot box file perhaps. Not really bothered about the scale, just something I can get accurate sizes from. I've tried guessing from photos but I'd prefer to know for sure. Thanks in advance Ian posted: 12 May 2015 08:48 from: Phil O Hi Ian I have asked this question on here and several other forums and have never got an answer. What I have in my round tuit box is some photo's of some Isle of Man turnouts which need sorting and trying to turn into a template. I think this will be the only way to get any info on 3ft trackwork. The preserved railways in Ireland are using recycled standard gauge (5ft 3 ins)componets regauged to 3 foot. The Ilse of Man being the only source that i know of that still has original 3 ft track, I just hope ...
... understand why. But, When both roads of a turnout are curved, why dont we have the same straight areas of the main road to make a straight path through the crossing. When the turnout is a Y the the distiction becomes most curious. I am somewhat puzzled on this as the loop to works siding has it's branch road heading to the siding. This was changed to a curved turnout for the reason of it "feeding a siding. The main road apears to have continuous radius and there only a couple of sleepers of straight track back to the turnout on the main road. This has me questioning "crossovers should have normal turnouts as to not form an S in the crossover. So the formation in this case is turnout branch road "Normal Turnout" so we have maybe 8 sleepers worth of straight, then about 3 more and then a curved main road of the turnout onto the loop. Just how much straight is enough? Regards, Greg 10 Aug 2010 10:07 from: grog_polymer Hmm- some missing letters- I ...
... topic: 1577 NER pre 1908 interlaced turnouts posted: 27 Jul 2011 20:37 from: Richard Spratt During a moment of uncontainable enthusiasm I managed to volunteer myself to help with the Skinningrove Zig Zags project. The Cleveland MRC and friends are going to build a P4 model of the Skinningrove area for the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum at Skinningrove. Easy I thought, I'll knock the trackplan out in a couple of evenings using the maps they've got. Then I hit a small problem. They want it with the correct sleepers and rail lengths for pre 1908 NER track work. Plus half way along the ownership changed from NER to the mine company. What track design would the mine have used? This is my first attempt of a NER 12' 1:7: 68_271523_280000000.png As I understand it, the main difference pre 1908 is that all sleeper spacings were about 3', which meant that the standard straight cut loose heel lengths were 9', 12'& 15' There are several things that need correcting, most of which I don't ...
... topic: 3007 turnouts sleeper spacing help posted: 10 Apr 2017 14:13 from: Panos Tsirigotis Hi This is my first question in this forum I have a query regarding sleepers spacing in turnouts. Whilst I found a way to set the sleeper's spacing in plain track (menu: real --> Plain track options -- -> Rail length and sleepers spacing), I couldn't find a command that changes sleepers spacing in turnouts. Is it possible to set that? Regards! posted: 10 Apr 2017 15:15 from: Martin Wynne Hi Panos, For timber spacings within turnouts, see: http://templot.com/companion/timber_spacings_overview.html There are more notes within the program if you go to the menu items given. However I regret that the links at the bottom of that page do not yet go anywhere. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Apr 2017 09:36 from: Panos Tsirigotis Hey Martin! Thanks for the help. Last edited on 11 Apr 2017 09:38 by Panos Tsirigotis Parts of Templot Club ...
... the heel: 6,25 inches, I didnt actually get this measurement from the drawing, I just remember it as being standard somewhere... I might be wrong though. Now comes the stock rail joint to toe, and its explained as follows: This is the switch front distance from the stock rail joint at the left end of the turnout to the "toe" (blade tips). For GWR switches this dimension is normally 64 inches, elsewhere it is usually 65 inches. There are normally 2 standard sleepers occupying this space. This is where it starts to get tricky, on my prototype turnout and american rail in general the joints are staggered. I guess Ill just compromise and skip it, setting it to the shortest distance in my drawing. 2094_221300_480000000.png Looks like I have it right there, 4' 6"= 54 inches Next is length of switch rail blade, this is also hard since according to the prototype drawing they are not of the same length. To avoid rail joint marks that are wrong anyway I just ...
... have had a breakthrough this week on getting large Templot drawings printed by a commercial printer. My project is a large garden railway in O gauge where there are some complex crossings. All the drawings have been completed in Templot and I am currently working in my garden shed where an eight road fiddleyard is required. My concerns are as follows. Up to now I have built turnouts on melamine boards where I have used spray on photo mount adhesive to stick the Templot drawing down. Then I use double sided sellotape to hold the sleepers in place. Finally, the chairs and rail are installed. When completed I carefully lift the whole assembly off the double sided tape. This works well for single points but when I come to build larger crossing, say a double scissors, I would prefer to build the assembly in situ on the baseboard. However, with the layout being exposed to the elements I am concerned about the bonds between the baseboard (which is likely to be made from waterproof tiling board), the paper Templot drawing and the plastic sleepers ...
... . If I am not mistaken, I seem to remember reading somewhere in past postings, that you took this data, for the chair positions and timbers, from the Southern Railway and some from the GWR, but little or none for LNWR. If this is the case, then it looks as if I have a long haul ahead of me measuring and placing each and every chair and timber for all non plain track templates (the plain track being catered for through the plain track options menu, then selecting rail lengths and sleeper spacings). I'm sure however, you will have another option available for me in Templot, which I yet need to discover (showing my ignorance again). I agree with your point about the dynamic stresses not being as severer at the throat of the station, where the speed of trains is much slower than that of the faster main running line junctions, in my case for New Street, the throat speed is limited to 10 mph and in the station area it slows to 5 mph for the very curved areas ...
... 46 from: PaulTownsend I sniffed around previous version for a few days as a beginner and then upgraded to 0.91c to do my first plan. It has many advantages and I would definitely recommend it. posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:36 from: phileakins Emphatically yes! If you don't you'll find your learning curve doubled. Phil posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:39 from: RedgateModels Already done it, thanks for the advice posted: 22 Dec 2010 13:17 from: Nigel Brown Notice that you've got some overlapping sleepers. This could be a good time to get some practice in sleeper shoving. Push them about a bit until they don't overlap, while trying to maintain reasonable spacing. They don't need to be at right-angles to the track. Cheers Nigel posted: 22 Dec 2010 13:40 from: RedgateModels Thanks for that Nigel, I'll look at that once I've got the A4 template sorted out ;) posted: 22 Dec 2010 22:18 from: Mike Huxley Nigel Brown wrote: Notice that you've got some overlapping ...
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... I overthinking the problems and it is actually easier than it looks? In actual construction how are the points filed? The Fast Tracks technique is to file the inner edge of the point to a sharp point. This however breaks through to the other side of the rail web leaving the rail head and flange unsupported. In real life I would not expect that the entire point is ground in this manner. How is it done? Hi Nicholas I guess you have not "served your time" using track spikes or soldered copperclad sleeper construction Printing- the printer settings can be saved- I have different settings for paper and card, for example. You are prompted to load the printer settings in the printer dialogue. Vector files- Templot exports in DXF format- very easy to do and works well. You can also export to a virtual printer if you want pdf files. Construction- this is essentially the same as using Fasttracks- the only difference is that the sleepering is not joined by a web. Templot is so much more flexible in what ...
... topic: 2358 Rail and sleeper sources posted: 8 Dec 2013 15:58 from: julia It seems that since I last bought materials for track, the sources of the wooden sleepers and the rail I use have both stopped stocking said items. I had been using nickle silver code 55 FB rail from C&L fine scale, but they have stopped stocking it due to insufficient demand. I was also using 1/16" x 3/32" bass wood from Eilleens Emporium for my sleepers. Both companies have stopped selling said items. Does anyone know of anywhere in Europe (inc UK) that sell said parts? I've found places in the US that are happy to ship the rail to the UK, but doing the same for the wood seems suboptimal. Any ideas? J posted: 8 Dec 2013 16:50 from: Les Golledge Hi Julia, Try the materials sections in these two:- http://www.alwayshobbies.com/about-us http://hobby.uk.com/ Also try Model Boat& Aircraft suppliers as ...
... missing without seeing the file. Most likely you have at some stage omitted them in the shoved timber settings. If you go to real> shove timbers... menu item, any omitted timbers will show as isolated numbers, as T8 in this example: 2_211236_550000000.png If you select it by clicking on the number, you can then click the restore timber button to restore it. if you are asking about the missing exit timbering, most likely you have set it to rails only, like this: 2_211251_200000000.png Change it to sleepered or timbered as you require. cheers, Martin. posted: 21 Sep 2019 17:51 from: Z Gauge Tim Hi Martin, thanks. I was actually talking about rights side of picture. Showing timbers doesn't help- they are missing. Thanks Attachment: attach_2904_3144_midland_central_2 019_09_21_1950_00.box 129 posted: 21 Sep 2019 18:20 from: Martin Wynne Hi Tim, Thanks for the .box file. The reason for the missing sleepering is that you have set an invalid custom setting for the rail lengths and sleeper spacings: 2_211313_250000000.png That ...
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