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topic: 257Strange crossover
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posted: 24 Nov 2007 02:50

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BTuckey
 
 

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Hi Martin,

I came across a rather strange problem. Having inserted a turnout into one of the triple terminus tracks, I clicked on 'tools > make simple crossover'. It always tried to make a crossover with rather odd timbering as below.

exit_timbered.jpgexit_timbered.jpg

This happens on three tracks but nowhere else on the plan.

Cheers.

Brian

posted: 24 Nov 2007 06:39

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Martin Wynne
 
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BTuckey wrote:
I came across a rather strange problem. Having inserted a turnout into one of the triple terminus tracks, I clicked on 'tools > make simple crossover'. It always tried to make a crossover with rather odd timbering as below.

exit_timbered.jpgexit_timbered.jpg

This happens on three tracks but nowhere else on the plan.
Hi Brian,

This is normal. All it means is that these templates have had their turnout-side (TS) adjacent track spacing set much wider than usual. You can see that the reason for that was probably to create double-track across a platform width. The solution is to reset the spacing to normal before making the crossover. It's always a good idea to check the track spacing settings before making double-track or a crossover (tools > adjacent track centres...). :)

Sometimes of course, you do want a crossover between widely spaced tracks. When Templot makes a crossover it uses long timbers up to the mid-point of the crossover for each turnout, which is normally what is required for typical double-track spacing. When the spacing is much wider than normal, this timbering result begins to look very odd, as you can see here.

The answer is to make the crossover (to get the turnouts correctly positioned), and then to change the do > turnout road > setting back to normal, which shortens the turnout road back to the usual TVJP position (CTRL+6) on the end of the vee splice rail. Doing that for both turnouts leaves a gap between the turnouts, which you can fill with a short length of plain track. The length and radius of that track can be easily adjusted manually to fit. Usually you would want to follow that up with some timber shoving to tidy things up.

Here's a short video showing how to create a curved crossover with the tracks at 25ft centres (100mm in 4mm scale):

new video:  widely-spaced crossover

3 minutes, 2.5MB (feasible for slow dial-up -- about 10 minutes download).

This video is from Templot version 091b, but everything works the same in 082d.

regards,

Martin.



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