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... on the trackwork for Yeovil Pen Mill so far. Progress has been pretty slow of late as I'm building the shed where the layout is going to live as well at the moment and this from scratch, so until that is finished further track making will be limited. The photos are all of the MPD between the junction. I'm going to try to lay it and ballast at the same time which the more I think about it the more nerve racking it is. I'll report back once I've summoned up the courage to put sleeper to wood glue... 2787_031707_450000000.jpg Early stages with most of the timbers in place and some rail laid in. At this early stage I was constructing the crossings in situe. I've now copied the idea of a chap on this site who makes all the crossings bonded to the wing rails with thin brass strip unsoldered underneath which makes a very solid job of it! 2787_031702_460000000.jpg A friend, Dave Doe, told me in no uncertain manner that my ideas of using bent wire to provide the hinge for the loose heeled switches ...
... topic: 401 Interlaced Sleeper Turnouts posted: 5 Apr 2008 22:08 from: Stewart McSporran I've written up some notes on how I create interlaced sleeper turnouts with Templot and posted them on my website. So, if you're interested you'll find them at http://grotsoft.net/Railways/Templot/InterlacedSleeperTurnouts.aspx cheers Stewart posted: 7 Apr 2008 18:32 from: Martin Wynne Stewart McSporran wrote: I've written up some notes on how I create interlaced sleeper turnouts with Templot and posted them on my website. Hi Stewart, Excellent. Many thanks for taking the trouble to do that. But please note that Templot has a function to put the timber ends in line, you don't need to do it manually: ends_in_line.png Normally centralized timbering is used when timbers are skewed (equalized timbering), and timber ends are in line when timbers are square (square-on timbering). But Templot doesn't make this change for you (perhaps it should?), and you can use either option with whichever timbering style you prefer or in accordance ...
... skilled in the art" could cook up a program that automatically combines models derived from Templot with models of the appropriate chairs to produce a stereo lithography file that can be fed to a 3D printer. Cheers!Andy posted: 10 Aug 2015 07:59 from: Les G My local Maker-Space has a number of 3d printers; I have been custodian-between-meetings for one of them for about 18months. During that time we have encountered a number of limitations of printer capability. The relevant issue with printing sleeper and chair as a component, is that the home DIY printers deposit plastic onto a plate, on ours it is heated glass. This deposition process means that any overhangs are unsupported. Test prints of arch-like components all show a degradation of the under-surface at the top of the arch, amounting to about 30 degrees of arc. It follows that the part of the chair which grips the rail will always be imprecise. Great care would be needed to obtain accurate gauging, and there would also be mechanical ...
... 1:22.5 scale using a model gauge of 16.5mm- probably using Peco code 100 rail. I have some books on the railway and my first problem is trying to understand the descriptions of the turnouts- they are described as follows... Originally 1 in 8 crossing and 7' switches Later changed to 1 in 10 with 9' switches... The problem is I don't really know what that means and I am going to need to know if I have any chance of drawing them in Templot I know the sleeper sizes and have some idea of the sleeper spacings and have managed to draw some straight and curved panels so far I think drawing the points is going to be a real challenge let alone making them So could some explain the descriptions to me please posted: 11 Dec 2014 15:00 from: Trevor Walling Hello, You might find this helpful http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_realtrack.htm Regards. Last edited on 11 Dec 2014 15:02 by Trevor Walling posted: 11 Dec 2014 15:14 from: TPP ...
... topic: 780 The next steps once I have the laser cut timber sleepers posted: 6 Apr 2009 12:07 from: Paul Hamilton Well the track plan is all but done and dusted now thanks to Raymond Walley. The quotes for the laser cut timber sleepers are imminent. I have successfully managed to download the 0.91c PUG tonight and installed it in my virtual windows environment Parallels on my Mac. I was then able to properly view the completed track plan and print it to a pdf file at A3 size. This has led me to some additional questions that hopefully the learned folk of this forum can assist with. 1) I noticed that in templot it appears that A3 is the largest paper size you can print to. Is this a function of the particular pdf writer I have or the program itself? I am imagining it is a function of the pdf for free writer I had downloaded into my virtul windows environment. Any suggestions on where I can get A2 print sizing would be much appreciated. (Saves all the sticky tape you ...
... offer a C&L bespoke timber cutting service from Templot files is a matter for him of course. It's likely to be more expensive than simply sticking timbers on the printed templates. For sufficient strength the "rail" webbing links have to be wider than BH rail as shown, so they would need to be chopped out with a small wood chisel to avoid being visible. regards, Martin. posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:59 from: Paul Hamilton What I need next to confirm Martin is the spacing for the sleepers to Midland pattern and confirmation that 45' panels would be correct in this context. Any pointers on the general spacing of the sleepers on the MR 45' panels? posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:37 from: Martin Wynne Paul Hamilton wrote: What I need next to confirm Martin is the spacing for the sleepers to Midland pattern and confirmation that 45' panels would be correct in this context. Any pointers on the general spacing of the sleepers on the MR 45' panels? Hi Paul, C&L ...
... topic: 157 Rail lengths and joint positioning posted: 11 Sep 2007 21:56 from: Roderic Cameron Hi I'm putting the finishing touches to a track plan (P4, 60ft plain track rail length) and find I want to move some of the rail joint locations (and the sleeper spacings that go with that). There are probably two aspects to this: 1) Can you move a rail joint to (say) a peg position so that the first whole track panel starts from that point?; and 2) In cases where a length of plain track is represented by more than one template, can you configure the panels/rail joints so that they progress seamlessly from one template to another? In practice when I get round to construction I could deal with all of this then, but it would be nice to sort it out in Templot if it's possible. TIA posted: 11 Sep 2007 22:22 from: Martin Wynne Roderic Cameron wrote: 1) Can you move a rail joint to (say) a peg ...
... topic: 589 Cutting PCB Sleepers posted: 15 Oct 2008 04:44 from: polybear Hi all, Does anyone have any methods for cutting sleepers to length please, keeping the end square at the same time? I have some C&L Copper Clad strip (1.6mm thick) but bearing in mind the number of sleepers that will eventually be required I'd quite like a quicker/easier way to cut them than a mitre saw and block!! Many thanks. Best Regards, Brian Tulley posted: 15 Oct 2008 12:43 from: Paul Boyd Hi Brian What you need is the Acme Chopper. Yes, really! You'll get through a few blades cutting PCB sleepers, but it copes fine. I've replaced the plastic cutting pad on mine with aluminium though. I don't know where to get it from these days, but it least you have something to google on. posted: 15 Oct 2008 13:10 from: Martin Wynne Paul Boyd wrote: What you need is the Acme Chopper. Yes, really! You'll get through ...
... topic: 2698 New track construction methods posted: 26 May 2015 16:39 from: madscientist I'm progressing with building my Templot track layout of Claremorris in Ireland circa 1975-85. This will be all bullhead on wooden sleepers. I dont want to go to 21mm, as theres too much plain track to build( and stock to convert), so have decided to use 00-SF. its a decision I didn't take lightly what would people now consider as the pre-eminent way to build 00-SF points( I will use C&L for plain track). (a) Copperclad with half chairs( using vero pin to raise rail) (b) Brook-Smith, again with half chairs on ply (c) all plastic construction( how do we handle the lack of flange chairs etc) (d) ply and plastic chairs, again we have a lack of crossing chairs for 00-SF (e) Combinations Paticulary as copper clad is getting more and more expensive and actually looks like it will exceed ...
... Edwardian era, I have spent many hours researching documents and books and analysing photographs of the inside-keyed permanent way known as 'Improved Settle and Carlisle' that the Midland Railway introduced in 1875 and laid at Hawes a couple of years later. The inspection report in 1878 for Hawes station states: "The Permanent Way consists of a bull-headed rail that weighs 82 lbs per lineal yd. It is fished and fixed with inside wooden keys in Cast Iron Chairs that weigh 42 lbs each. The Chairs are fastened...to Sleepers laid transversely at an average distance of 3 ft apart." Contemporary photos show that this permanent way remained in place until at least 1921 and that there were nine sleepers per rail, more or less evenly spaced except for the closer spacing of the end two and of those either side of the fishplate. Bob Essery, in MRJ No.22, included a diagram of I. S.& C. rail lengths and sleeper spacings, but this does not agree with the photographic evidence at Hawes because all the sleeper spacings are ...
... topic: 3794 short rails, joints and timbering, rolling rails posted: 5 Oct 2020 07:35 from: Graham Long I have just made a new start for a track plan. Before I go too far I want to make sure I am using the programme efficiently. I have made a custom "rail and track" (44'6" with 18 sleepers per length) I have only got as far as making a loco release road road crossover and adjacent siding. Here is how a went about it. I have called the Templates 1 to 5 for the sake of this query. a) Got a plain track template, curved this to 1400 mm and made it 1 panel length. (Template 1) b) Produced a turnout template (Old GWR and 14' V angle 1:8) I curved this to MS of 5280. (Template 2) c) Then formed a crossover. (Templot 3) d) I then formed a double track to TS of Templot 2. (Templot 4) e) I ...
12. gluing sleepers
... topic: 1885 gluing sleepers posted: 24 Mar 2012 18:34 from: julia What glue do people recommend for gluing rail to sleepers? Julia posted: 24 Mar 2012 19:12 from: Ian Allen I personally wouldn't recommend gluing rail directly to sleepers. Glue chairs to sleepers or solder rail to copper clad paxolin sleepers. Ian posted: 24 Mar 2012 19:18 from: Paul Boyd I would go along with Ian. Having said that though, I have heard of people gluing flat-bottom rail directly to sleepers to represent light railway practise, and I think Thixofix was suggested. Personally, if I was doing that I would use Loctite 435 plus the appropriate activator (no possibility of adjustment though!). I would also use Proto:87 spikes, and a bottle of whisky to take away the tedium posted: 24 Mar 2012 19:50 from: wcampbell23 Hi Julia You will get more useful advice if you could let us know what you are trying to achieve- scale, gauge, narrow gauge, type of ...
... Templot. I am currently building an Australian based layout, centred around Picton, NSW, circa 1955, link- http://stonequarrycreek.blogspot.com.au/ I have found Templot to be very good so far. It was a little hard to get my head around a few things at first but things are now slowly sinking in. I have drawn my track plan, including a single slip (I was very happy that it worked) but I am having a few troubles in trying to replicate NSW Government Railway point characteristics, particularly sleeper layout. My dramas so far: 1. My single slip L/H point blades do not flow into the stock rail properly. My R/H points blades are fine. Realistically it wont affect building the slip but I would like to know where I went wrong; 2. My track plan includes a passenger siding bay within one of the platforms. I specified a track spacing between adjacent track of 85mm however Templot has drawn it at 71mm and I can not adjust further; 3. I am after a ...
... topic: 3720 Double sleeper at rail joints posted: 18 Jul 2020 17:14 from: Alan McMillan Hi I'm having real bother with this one. I'm trying to create swiss jointed track. The photo below shows what I'm after. 412_181154_070000000.jpg The track panel in the centre has a double sleeper under each rail joint and there are 51 sleepers in each panel with the first and last one having its outer edge directly under the rail joint. Since the pitch of the sleepers is 600mm (23.62 inches) that makes the rail length of each panel 30 metres (1161.102 inches) long. I've had a go at creating this custom arrangement in Templot but have never quite succeeded as seen below... 9k= The right hand end sleeper is in the right place with its rail joint but I cannot get the one at the opposite end of the panel to appear in its correct position creating the double with a rail joint between them. Even though the Rail Joints- Normal menu item is selected, no rail joint appears except at the right ...
... passenger terminals. This is my aim if I live long enough I should have made it more clear that I wasn't talking about stripping Peco points, I was referring to the 2 x 3 foot lengths of nickel silver rail in each piece of Peco Flextrack of which I have quite a few boxes. Ken, Peco still supply the Code 80 rail as a separate item- Code IL4- so you should be able to get lengths of rail from suppliers who stock Peco- or possibly Peco themselves. You can get 2mm wide sleepering strip from the 2mm Association- but you have to be a member- or from SMP, part way down on this web page SMP Web Site: http://www.smpscaleway.com PCB turnout construction is probably the easiest way to start and the cost per turnout is low so you can probably afford to learn by your mistakes. Don't lay and solder to every timber when starting- lay and solder to every fourth or fifth timber so that if you have to adjust any solder joint, it can be done reasonably easily. ...
16. Rolling sleepers
... topic: 759 Rolling sleepers posted: 9 Mar 2009 02:24 from: Nigel Brown This is pug 0.82d, and almost certainly a lack of understanding on my part. I've just knocked up a quick experimental and simple track plan involving just one turnout, a couple of feet or so of diverging rails, and a bit of approach track. Now the last sleeper next to the turnout on the approach track slightly overlaps the last sleeper of the turnout, so I thought this might be a good time to try out rolling sleepers to get the right sleepers with the right spacing at the rail joint with the turnout. No problem, it worked fine. However, the other end of the approach track now has a sleeper which is a bit beyond the end of the rail, and I thought that for neatness it would be nice to extend the rail to reach just beyond the sleeper. So I pressed F4, thinking this would do the trick. No. What it now does is continue to roll the sleepers, leaving the rail the ...
... is railway track of 4ft-1.5in gauge, and if you divide that by 76.2 the answer is 16.5mm. The fact that very little such track actually exists doesn't come into it. Nor does the branch line to Ambridge or the bus on the bridge there. But maybe we should leave these arguments to other forums. Templot is about how to build model track, not whether you should or not. regards, Martin. posted: 15 Sep 2017 17:46 from: Judi R Has anyone been able to confirm the sleeper spacings of these yet? Are they to 3.5mm (HO) scale or 4mm (OO) scale? Judi R posted: 15 Sep 2017 17:56 from: Martin Wynne Judi R wrote: Has anyone been able to confirm the sleeper spacings of these yet? Are they to 3.5mm (H0) scale or 4mm (00) scale? Hi Judi, It is traditional "00 Gauge" track, i.e. 4ft-1.5in gauge track with 8ft long sleepers at 2ft-4in centres, at 4mm/ft ...
... topic: 299 NER sleepered single junctions posted: 4 Jan 2008 20:10 from: Bob Ellis Hi Martin, Several months ago you were kind enough to create a North Eastern Railway 1:8 sleepered single junction template for me, which I have found very useful. The conversion of my garage into a bespoke railway room is now nearly complete and I want to get down to finalising the design of the layout that will go into it. This will be a pre-grouping NER layout in P4, so I have started trying to produce my own single junctions to various sizes between 1:6.25 and 1:8.75. I can produce the V-crossing I want and I can create the correct sizes of sleepers and shove them into position, but I am not sure what to do about the switch. I know NER switches were non-standard and I presume I therefore need to construct a custom switch. There are tables in the NER Permanent Way Standards that give me the length of switch for each angle of single junction, ...
... at least, that's the plan. This is in Templot2. When I have got it finished and working I will make the code open-source, but I will probably leave it to others to incorporate it into OpenTemplot. *Nice One Day cheers, Martin. posted: 16 Jul 2018 20:48 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Nice work with the chairing If it isn't too much to ask can you add some code to aggregate all the chairs used on templates in the storage box( like the timber/sleeper length one which is great). It would need to be broken down into quantities of S1, L1 types etc. This would make ordering/stock checking a breeze. I am looking at the 'old fashioned' route of using injection moulded chairs and actually glueing them on.... Rob posted: 16 Jul 2018 23:59 from: d827kelly A great addition to templot! posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:12 from: richard_t I've been doing similar, in 2D, using my cad program- I ...
20. Templot new user
... topic: 1099 Templot new user posted: 7 Apr 2010 14:14 from: Chris Blaxland Following a visit to an exhibition a couple of weeks ago I have decided to have a go at making some track in 7mm. As the first step I have purchased Templot which is why I am on here! I have made quite a lot of 4mm track (Flat bottom, soldered to PCB sleepers) but am looking to step up a gauge and get a better looking track. An exhibitor was making some 7mm track which looked really good (using a templot drawn template) To save myself a lot of time I thought I would get some advice on the best way to make a start. So here are my questions if anyone can help. 1. What gauge should I be using in templot if I want to run, say the new Heljan locos? 2. I want to have a go at glueing chairs to sleepers etc, I have found one supplier, C& L. Are they the only ones? are there better ...
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