Interlaced pointwork

[Stephen Freeman]

Good Morning,
I thought I would like to share some thoughts on a new project I will be concentrating on next. It is in EM Gauge with scalethickness plywood timbers. Having some prototype drawings sent to me, the next step was to try and re-create it in Templot. A false start was made by trying to adapt a standard issue Templot turnout, not easy and took forever.

I then had a Eureka moment, a normal Templot turnout with the timbering turned off, I then proceed to create 2 partial templates, one for the straight element and one for the curved part. I then turned off the rails for those. With a bit of adjustment I ended up with the result in the photo, which accords with the prototype drawing.

Now to add the rails etc. More soon

 

[Paul Boyd]

Hi Stephen

That's a trick I use a fair bit. As soon as the timbering starts to get complicated, it's split out into its own template(s)!

Cheers,
Paul

 

[Jim Guthrie]

I then had a Eureka moment, a normal Templot turnout with the timbering turned off, I then proceed to create 2 partial templates, one for the straight element and one for the curved part. I then turned off the rails for those. With a bit of adjustment I ended up with the result in the photo, which accords with the prototype drawing.

I did something similar some years ago designing Caledonian track in S scale. But in my case I created a turnout template then I shoved all the timbers from the heel of the switch to be sleepers on the main road through the crossing. I then placed another plain track template on the diverging road from the switch heel to match the curve of the turnout road and adjusted its sleepers to interlace with the existing sleepers on the main road, and then turned off the rails. You should also adjust the width of the timbers on the turnout template to be 10" wide.

Jim.

 

[Stephen Freeman]

I did something similar some years ago designing Caledonian track in S scale. But in my case I created a turnout template then I shoved all the timbers from the heel of the switch to be sleepers on the main road through the crossing. I then placed another plain track template on the diverging road from the switch heel to match the curve of the turnout road and adjusted its sleepers to interlace with the existing sleepers on the main road, and then turned off the rails. You should also adjust the width of the timbers on the turnout template to be 10" wide.

Jim.

Doing it my way the timbers are automatically 10 inches wide

 

[Martin Wynne]

Doing it my way the timbers are automatically 10 inches wide

You can change the settings in Templot so that timbers are 10" wide -- real > timbering > timbering data...

You can also change all the spacings so you get double the number of timbers, ready to be shoved into interlaced positions. If you need more you can add bonus timbers.

The advantage of keeping it all in one template is that you can curve it to any radius, change the turnout size, etc.

All this was covered in depth years ago on the old forum, or maybe on the email group before it. I will see if I can find it.

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Martin Wynne]

By coincidence, John Palmer has just now posted a Templot .box file for a fully customised NBR interlaced turnout.

Download from: https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=85434#p85434

It's in P4 -- use the convert group function to convert it to other gauges and scales (select the match original option).

Martin.