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... //en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_points This suggest springing catch is usual... Construction of CPs and TrapPs is very similar, it's the location and application that distinguishes them. I recollect a discussion on this matter in this forum a while back... Regards, Rodney Hills posted: 26 Jul 2018 09:11 from: Martin Wynne rodney_hills wrote: Your immediately preceeding post mention catch poInts on gradients. Actually what your original thread is about TRAP points Hi Rodney, We have been here many times before. The term "trap" refers to the function of a set of points, a term used by the signalling and operating departments. In bullhead days the physical object was generally known in the Permanent Way departments as "catch points" and is shown as such on the manufacturing drawings. See for example the whole chapter on "catch points" in David Smith's GWR book: cvr_track_200px.jpg http://gwsg.org.uk/GWSG_Publications.html Templot is about track, and defaults to bullhead, so that is the term we use: 2_260347_230000000.png which shortens a ...
... I do 99% of my templot work on the laptop (at work in lunchtimes, away on business and at the club I belong to) and the ability to be able to use the additonal functionality of Templot 2 (especially the sketchbook function, platforms etc) would be very useful. Can you advise if there is a solution that does not involve our IT dept who will refuse to play, please. Regards Dave posted: 14 Aug 2013 15:07 from: Martin Wynne Hi Dave, Please read the Templot2 terms of use at: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?terms_of_use.htm Read para 4 to mean in addition any computer currently in your use, from which you agree to remove Templot2 before relinquishing such use. If you agree the terms, please post a reply here saying so. I will then change your permissions here to allow you to download a .zip file for Templot2 which can be used on USB sticks on any computer and does not require a Windows install. Note that it will still need an internet connection ...
... to guide wheels flanges away from hitting the nose of a V crossing in a turnout; Delta- Deltas were a specific unit, they were available in different rail weights and crossing numbers (7.52, 8.7 etc) just like the other crossings. Two were used in a double crossover when the track centres were 11'8", if the spacing was a little greater then only one was used (the other side had 2 Vs and a K) and if the tracks were widely spaced then no deltas were used. Are these terms used elsewhere in the world? Mark posted: 3 Apr 2013 21:10 from: Phil O Hi Mark The Great western Railway used the terms compound and Double Compound. Check and Guard rail are still used and are often interchangeable. I've not heard of Delta or Deltas. Cheers Phil posted: 3 Apr 2013 23:34 from: Laidlaym Thanks, the colonial government took on a certain I K Brunel as some sort of representative in the old country, maybe he is responsible for the use of compound. I ...
... timber sleeper, if this is capable of taking solder doesn't this make for a short circuit across the rails? At this stage I must apologise for asking questions which are probably so obvious to you. I wouldn't be asking but it is an opportunity to start my learning curve. If you hadn't answered I wouldn't have been able to harass you so as the saying goes "no good deed goes unpunished". It has just occurred to me to ask does the solder take the place of the chairs, if that's the right term, in the prototype? If so doesn't this detract from the appearance of the point? I hope you can find time to help me further but will of course understand if you can't. I couldn't find an emoticon for insincere. I think it obvious that my next move is to obtain Templot and see if a study of it will give me further insights into the mysteries of points building. Regards and best wishes, ken posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:09 from: kenbec Martin Wynne wrote: Hi Ken, ...
... topic: 2121 Using Templot for miniature railways posted: 11 Dec 2012 20:33 from: Ron Mitchell Hi, I'm attempting to follow the quick guide to creating a slip but fall at the first hurdle because it refers to terms that don't appear on the screen. This diamond is likely to be my winter's work, so I won't be an intensive user of what I can see is a fantastic resource that really does deserve more of my time to learn- but can't have it because the rest of the yard needs to be built! Does any reader have the time to complete the attached drawing for me? The slip needs to be about 12192mm radius. Thanks, Ron Mitchell (v. confused, tried 5 or 6 times to get my head round it but finally gave up) Attachment: attach_1548_2121_Diamond_single_sl ip.box 283 posted: 11 Dec 2012 21:07 from: Martin Wynne Hi Ron, Welcome to Templot Club. Here you go, file attached below: 2_111604_000000000.png The slip road radius is 15796mm. Can you say which bit you were ...
... -arrange your lounge to accomodate things, set things up, and restore things afterwards, and how long can you keep the layout set up? In other words, is the hassle going to be worth whatever you manage to get out of the layout when it is set up? Second question, is your primary interest in building the thing or in running it once its built? And are you interested in exhibiting it? If you are interested in exhibiting it, and home running isn't the major aim, perhaps thinking in terms of just assembling bits of it at home for working on and testing purposes might be the way to go. Third question, do you have anywhere else you could assemble it, e.g. loft or garage? Think it boils down to what you really want, and can work out somewhere to fit it in. The curved version won't be a model of the station, rather "based on"; if you go for this I wouldn't hesitate to alter the track layout as well to get rid of any awkward things ...
47. Forum emails
... the other "bad" ISPs who are blocking your emails), I will revert back to reading only emails from the Yahoo Templot site. regards, Dave posted: 5 Aug 2007 06:28 from: Martin Wynne Dave Phillips wrote: So what are we to do? I agree the form appears to be for the sending ISP administrators. Have you contacted your ISP? And yes, I understand your reluctance to do this, since it's a "problem" with Comcast. Hi Dave, I contacted them in general terms. They said that since they did not consider themselves at fault they would charge for any work undertaken, including the filling in and sending of this or any similar form. They felt that doing so was a waste of time, because Comcast and other ISPs who act likewise (AOL) were just as likely to re-impose the block at any time. They were keen to know which of their hosted domains was regarded as a spammer by Comcast, but I did not have that information. Regarding the notice you ...
... the potential usefullness in Templot and dove in head first in my usual manner. I was quickly frustrated beyond anything I had ever experienced, but I have no intention of giving up. There are several things that lead to my frustration. There is a slight problem due to the language difference. Most of the tutorials and help files are written by folks from the UK and put sentences together slightly differently than we do here in the states. More of a problem is difference in the railroad terminology. In the US we use terms such as Frog, Points, Stock Rail, Closure Rail, Guard Rail, Lead, etc. Few or none of these terms are the used in your documentation. These problems manifest themselves by making the Menu Choices very un-intuitive to someone not from the UK. There probably is not much that can be done about this. I just need to learn your terminology, which I will attempt to do. Further to this is the unit of measurement difference. Again, I understand that you use exclusively metric. ...
... , Brian Nicholls. posted: 28 May 2012 21:01 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: One thing that really bugs me about this affair, and particularly Old-maps is, that I am only being offered this one method of payment, and the attitude is that, 'you take it or leave it' (well, I personally, will leave it !!). Hi Brian, I don't think "take it or leave it" is an unreasonable business attitude. A product is offered and the terms stated. No-one is obliged to accept it if they don't want to. If I was running old-maps, I too would offer online only, PayPal only. But I would try to respond to emails, if only to politely point this out. regards, Martin. posted: 28 May 2012 21:56 from: Paul Boyd Hi Brian We, that's, you Paul and I, have been round this route before in a previous posting, and I still haven't change my mind on this one ...
... wouldn't like to give you incorrect information, but it looks good to me. Though TL046 is sitting on top (or underneath) a piece of plain track- you might like to shorten or remove the track. Best of luck,Derek posted: 24 Sep 2015 21:17 from: Martin Wynne Hi David, More about catch points, including a video, here: http://templot.com/companion/index.html?catch_points.htm And before someone yet again posts that they are trap points, not catch points, the term "trap" refers to their function -- the physical object is called a catch point (with 1 blade) or catch points (with 2 blades). Trap points can be implemented as catch points, or as full turnouts, or sometimes more complex arrangements such as a double slip, sand drags, etc. I have been making some dialog changes in the make transition function, and I'm hoping to upload a program update in the next few days. I don't want to reply to your other matters until I ...
... for particular manufacturers. There's lots of stuff on the web. For example yesterday I stumbled across this site belonging to Peter Smith (Kirtley Models) which has some excellent drawings of railway buildings and fittings: http://www.systonandpeterborough.info The site you recommended above, was quite good for drawings of buildings, and have copied some of them for future use. Please also find an updated copy of the small signal box GIF file which I have correct (for my minor mistakes), it is the same title but with the term v2 (for version 2) added just before the pf scaling factor. If you like, you can throw away the original and replace with this file, then remove the v2 (version) part of the title. Many thanks again, and very best regards. Brian Nicholls. Attachment: attach_888_1224_signal_box_small_a t_chichester_19ft8in_x_14ft_v2_pf1 517.gif 550 posted: 3 Oct 2010 01:16 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Have just about finished a drawing of a turntable, which I now submit for your comments. An original sketch drawing of this ...
52. MERG DCC system
... level crossing gate operation the other day and started thinking about using servos to make it happen. With double gates on each side to span a double track you would need to have the entry side( left) gates close first and open last with the right gates closing and opening after and before( sorry, not very good english there). Sure you get my drift. Is the DCC control system a British designed product? If so, why does the hand unit have 'consist' on it- that is an american term to suit their multi unit lash ups. Surely for the UK we would only have a pilot or bank engine in addition to the train engine so it would be better to call it DH for double header or similar. Just a thought although it may cause confusion with DCC chips having CV's called consist address and such like. Elves back to work. Watch this space. Rob posted: 23 Oct 2017 08:43 from: Charles Orr I use servo's to drive my turnouts and the CANMIOServo is perfect for that. ...
53. User Manual
... 85a.co.uk/forum/search_templot.htm If you enter "approach track" there, I'm sure you will soon find reference to the F3 mouse action. regards, Martin. posted: 7 Dec 2008 19:55 from: donald peters Hallo, Apologies all. This seems to have gone wrong, Regards Donalds posted: 20 May 2009 11:54 from: newport_rod I've just started to get usable plans from templot- sitting down and going through the tutorail certainly helped. One thing I think I'd find useful is a glossary of templot terms e.g. wipe, background, store, notch peg etc. If if already exists somewhere sorry for bringing it up. posted: 9 Jun 2009 15:03 from: Martin Wynne newport_rod wrote: One thing I think I'd find useful is a glossary of Templot terms e.g. wipe, background, store, notch peg etc. Hi Rodney, There isn't currently a glossary in quite that form, sorry. I agree it would be very useful. However, if you do a search for a particular term, you ...
... planning 15. customizing templates to prototype data 16. using Templot with CAD, vector data and metafiles posted: 20 Dec 2011 18:01 from: Les G Hi Martin, Looks good Les G posted: 20 Dec 2011 18:22 from: ESJAYTEE speaking as a novice willing to learn, as a set of chapter headings it looks fine explaining the work environment and walking through some basics. Speaking as one who is both a novice at templot and a novice at track could I perhaps ask for a glossary of common terms, names and practices in both the templot universe and if, someone were willing to help Martin (JFS, I know you have the "knowledge") in the real world. A sort of "today we shall have naming of parts" for track regardless of guage or scale or whether real or potential design. Steve posted: 20 Dec 2011 18:45 from: Martin Wynne ESJAYTEE wrote: speaking as a novice willing to learn, as a set of chapter headings it looks fine explaining the work environment and ...
... wrote: Imagine a loco travelling east on the loop and down to the platform. This road is curved. There is a few sleepers worth of straight track then an REA semi curved with it's regions of straight. So we have a curved turnout road ending in about 8 or 9 sleepers of straight before another curve. So I guess the other way of looking at this is" REA Semi Curved" to "REA Semi Curved" at a crossing- ok. Hi Greg, You've got a bit mixed up. The term "REA semi-curved" applies only to the switch part of the turnout. It has no connection with the different types of V-crossing (frog) geometry. I know this is confusing, because in many parts of the world the term "switch" is commonly used to apply to an entire turnout. But in engineering terms and in Templot, a switch is only the moving points (blades) section of a turnout: startup_pad.png There are no straight sections anywhere in your plan: 2_100830_480000000.png This is not ...
56. flat bottom rail
... the files to get a laser cut aluminium sheet to make the templates. however, as I use flat bottom rail is there a way to get Templot to do this? Hi Dave, Are you sure you want assembly jigs? It means that you will have lots of identical turnouts, whereas the great advantage of Templot is that you can have the full variety of prototype designs in your track plan. Quite often a Templot track plan will contain no two templates exactly the same. Also, please bear in mind the licence terms for Templot. If you manufacture metal jigs from Templot designs, they must be for your own personal use only, not for sale. Templot doesn't yet have functions to create the foot lines for flat-bottom rail. It's on my to-do list, but I can't say when it will be implemented. In the meantime, there are a couple of tricks you can use: 1. Measure your rail carefully, and set the rail head width to a dummy dimension equal to the distance from the running face ...
57. Thunderbird - OT
... for an alternative. regards, Martin. posted: 27 Jun 2007 17:31 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, PS: Strange that Brian has not registred here yet, he supplies the hardware for most of the designs created by Templot I'm pleased to report that Brian has now joined us, so a warm welcome Brian, and thanks for registering. We now have both Brian Lewis's, as is customary on these groups, so we are all set. (We could also discuss that apostrophe, and the correct plural term for them- a "templot" of Brian Lewis's?) Martin. posted: 27 Jun 2007 18:17 from: Brian W Lewis Martin Wynne wrote: Dear all, PS: Strange that Brian has not registred here yet, he supplies the hardware for most of the designs created by Templot I'm pleased to report that Brian has now joined us, so a warm welcome Brian, and thanks for registering. We now have both Brian Lewis's, as is customary on these groups, so we are all set. ...
... retain the tandem rather than running two tracks under the bridge. If you are happy with the design I will firm it up and get the timbers shoved around. I see from RMweb that you have finished the baseboards and will soon be ready to start trackbuilding. However, I have a feeling progress will come to a full stop in two weeks time. I am happy with the design now, thanks! The one question I had is about the catch points Iain put in in three spots. Do these make sense in terms of placement and if so would the slip on the loop not be similarly protected towards the station end? Of course this layout is a bit like squeezing a quart into a pint pot so having looked again, that would be overdoing it. The question is more one of interest. The other thing I need to get my thinking hat on about is signalling. Unless I'm missing it I do not think this is covered in the diagram. I'd like to get at least one ex LSWR semaphore, the Barnstaple line seemed ...
... topic: 3388 Mixing DIY pointwork and e.g. Peco or Lenz 0 Gauge tracks posted: 15 Feb 2019 00:15 from: Stefan Sczekalla Hi, first- I need to apologize,- I'm not a native speaker and a lot of technical terms are not common to me in english. I' trying do design a track-plan/ layout using rtr turnouts made by Lenz(Peco) Code 143. Due to some constraints I will have to mix them with some- i have to build by my own. In Germany we have a kind of different way how timber is alligned also some rules/policies state that there have to be two timbers together. 1, are there by any chance predefined Lenz/Peco turnout templates? 2. (how) can I add "double-timber"? 3. can I tell templot to layout the timber within a turnout how its usualy done in germany? Many thanks in advance, Stefan posted: 15 Feb 2019 03:04 from: Martin Wynne Hi Stefan, Welcome to ...
... topic: 3547 Publishing of plans posted: 8 Nov 2019 16:57 from: KeithArmes I have produced a Templot plan for a friend. Now he may like to include it in an article for a Model Railway journal. How does this fit with the Templot terms& conditions? Presumably an acknowledgement would be appropriate at least. If its OK, any idea what file type would suit a publisher. PDF seems to give the best looking results on a screen. Best wishes, Keith posted: 8 Nov 2019 18:59 from: Martin Wynne KeithArmes wrote: I have produced a Templot plan for a friend. Now he may like to include it in an article for a Model Railway journal. How does this fit with the Templot terms& conditions? Presumably an acknowledgement would be appropriate at least. If its OK, any idea what file type would suit a publisher. PDF seems to give the best looking results on a screen. Hi Keith, Thanks for asking. I don't insist on an acknowledgement but "Plan prepared by Keith ...
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