... say that laying track over a drawing could mean quite a few splits and movement of the peg to trace the layout of the track accurately? Hi Tony, You are determined to jump in the deep end! Aligning tracks over a background image is tricky. Even the original designer of your goods yard didn't have to do that. Normally I suggest not to try it until you have a good grasp of all the functions in Templot because you are likely to need all of them. This note is on the download page: 2_250040_080000000.png Your method of stepping along the track in a series of short templates will obviously work, but then how are going to insert the pointwork where it's needed? Unless tracks are obviously dead straight, the usual method I would use is to add several strategic dummy templates using the CTRL+ F10 swell function. You can then create transition curves between them, and later delete the dummy templates. Even then you may need an occasional slew as the only way to get an exact match. Sometimes the only possible conclusion is that ...