Anyone with some fair track-building knowledge ?

[ka959]

I recently received a reply from a guy who was kind enough to offer me a little help in what I needed with track-work,I thought I was quite clear with what I needed, but he pointed me to a YouTube place where I could get some help, from a video. Fair enough, but I forgot one important thing - to tell him I had a very severe problem with being deaf. I speak and read and write well, but can't hear on a telephone (words, I mean - but sound, yes) I hear all the sounds of normal conversation, but words mean very little to me, actually !

So, talking, and stuff on YouTube or the Internet in general, are just sound, to me, at least. Written words are easiest for me to digest, so, is there any way for someone to explain, to me, just HOW to join a couple of paraelle tracks in a T.S. siding in a station, say, if you want to make a crossover, and you get a piece of track, and begin on a straight piece of track, and make the track piece, bend towards the other siding, and make it connect exactly at the same place, on the other siding track, I could do it easily enough previously, but since, have forgotten how to do this. Crazy, but true ! Can you please help in doing this ?

Regards...

Jim McDermott

[37114]

I recently received a reply from a guy who was kind enough to offer me a little help in what I needed with track-work,I thought I was quite clear with what I needed, but he pointed me to a YouTube place where I could get some help, from a video. Fair enough, but I forgot one important thing - to tell him I had a very severe problem with being deaf. I speak and read and write well, but can't hear on a telephone (words, I mean - but sound, yes) I hear all the sounds of normal conversation, but words mean very little to me, actually !

So, talking, and stuff on YouTube or the Internet in general, are just sound, to me, at least. Written words are easiest for me to digest, so, is there any way for someone to explain, to me, just HOW to join a couple of paraelle tracks in a T.S. siding in a station, say, if you want to make a crossover, and you get a piece of track, and begin on a straight piece of track, and make the track piece, bend towards the other siding, and make it connect exactly at the same place, on the other siding track, I could do it easily enough previously, but since, have forgotten how to do this. Crazy, but true ! Can you please help in doing this ?

Regards...

Hi Jim,

Do the videos not have closed captions on them?

Jim McDermott

[ka959]

This is the first time EVER, I've received a reply to something I've written, that doesn't have anything of what the person (you) said, above it. The small bit you said, should have shown above this I'm saying, now, but what the hell ! There was a seties of "Help" YouTube videos, or YouTube videos that were copied here, a while back. But I remember getting very frustrated because they were wiithout captioning, and I've only seen one video from YouTube with caaptions that made good sense in what it said, in good English, while so many videos on YouTube that DO have closed captions, more often than not, appear tro be very "garbled", and not really make sense. WHY ? These videos were useless to me, so how are they going to explain to persons like myself, how to build routes, and stuff, to deaf persons ?

There are definately persions with hearing impairments, out there, in all countries, around the World, who want to learn the art of Route-Building. There are many aspects of this craft, that need to be explained to hearing-impaired persons, and whom WANT to learn it, and it's useless trying to ask people to explain it to me, as they're too engrossed in other stuff, or they're too "can't be bothered", it's too hard to explain it, and they've spent enough time just trying to learn, themselves.

With all the equipment DTG has, I think they would owe it to those customers out there, like myself, to publish a series of "short" explanatory videos, with Closed Captions, to explain to those of us, with poor, or no hearing at all, to go about building routes for pleasure. Yes, there are people out there, who WANT to learn about this interesting work, but have no way to begin learning, so what better way to go about it, than a captioned video, or series of videos, to teach you ? If not something like that, what about a clear, easy-to-read BOOKLET ??? (with pictures in it, drawn, or photographed, to explain to you, properly ?

There are some other things that annoy me, as well, like the fact that DTG doesn't appear th take people like myself, into consideration, when they produce certain things, like some DSD's that are supposedly audible, but are far too high-pitched to hear with a cochlear implant, like I have, fitted, although I hear most sounds in T.S., but never the DSD's, only some sounds like the signal indicator sirens, such as those when a signal ahead, is at "Danger", or red, or some of the "clear Ahead" sounds, which are fairly easy to distinguish. I once wrote to DTG when it was named as it was, previously, about these DSD sounds being hard to hear, but they replied to the effect that they didn't really worry too much about that, and didn'tunderstand why it spoils the whole game for me, that there was nothing clearly visible when the DSD goes off - THEY can hear it, and react to it goes off. I CAN'T- full stop. Yes, it ruins the game for me, and makes me feel I've wasted my money completely.

Regards...

Jim McDermott

[gptech]

some DSD's that are supposedly audible, but are far too high-pitched to hear with a cochlear implant, like I have, fitted

Unfortunately Jim, the real thing is often a high pitched sound so they couldn't/won't *break* that, though I do agree some form of visual warning (toggleable ON/OFF ideally) would be an elegant solution.

Right, I aren't a *proper* route builder but laying points isn't particularly difficult---once you get the hang of it! It's a devil of a job when you're learning, but once you manage it it gets pregressively easier.

Start with your 2 parallel tracks, select the same track type etc for your junction and click where you want it start. Move your mouse towards the second track, you'll see an outline of where the track will go so aim for a gentle curve to start with towards the other track. Once the end of the box that shows where the track will go is about half way across the gap between the parallel tracks click your mouse to lay the track. Now from the end of this first bit lay another piece to gently curve into the second track.
It's easiest if you have the 'snap to track' button selected, which is in the bottom left flyout--middle row, the far right one--as when the 2nd piece you lay will connect properly the outline of the box to show where the track will go turns red.

Have a bash at it, don't worry if the points look mangled with horrible frogs for now, just get the hang of laying a junction then we'll go through 'cleaning them up' once you can lay a junction every time.

[37114]

This is the first time EVER, I've received a reply to something I've written, that doesn't have anything of what the person (you) said, above it. The small bit you said, should have shown above this I'm saying, now, but what the hell !

I was merely asking a question to something you may of missed. I was prepared to write an explanation for you of how to do it but as you've quite frankly just been rude to me I won't bother.

[CeeGee]

The Videos on this page have captions

http://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/tutorials.html

[deltic009]

This is the first time EVER, I've received a reply to something I've written, that doesn't have anything of what the person (you) said, above it. The small bit you said, should have shown above this I'm saying, now, but what the hell !

I was merely asking a question to something you may of missed. I was prepared to write an explanation for you of how to do it but as you've quite frankly just been rude to me I won't bother.

He isn't being rude actually, if you take the time to look at your reply, you have given a small answer which appears inside the embedded quote of the original post, so it does actually look like you've typed nothing at all new.

I do not think he is being malicious, but you've not replied correctly and it is easy for what you did type to be overlooked for that reason - so it's not really fair to blame them for your mistake.

[37114]

This is the first time EVER, I've received a reply to something I've written, that doesn't have anything of what the person (you) said, above it. The small bit you said, should have shown above this I'm saying, now, but what the hell !

I was merely asking a question to something you may of missed. I was prepared to write an explanation for you of how to do it but as you've quite frankly just been rude to me I won't bother.

He isn't being rude actually, if you take the time to look at your reply, you have given a small answer which appears inside the embedded quote of the original post, so it does actually look like you've typed nothing at all new.

I do not think he is being malicious, but you've not replied correctly and it is easy for what you did type to be overlooked for that reason - so it's not really fair to blame them for your mistake.

I'll be the judge of that.

[whittaker]

Hello KA959
this should not be to hard to do ,

Point crossover
make sure your snap to track is switched on and the function to create your point leaver if required ,create your first turnout
to about the distance of the frog of your point,this should create a single point .
This is where you need your snap to track switched on ,now create your second point which should snap to your adjoining line. job done
another thing to take into consideration is if your track is on an incline etc . you may need to create them on a gradient ,there is an easy way of doing this if required.

Diamond crossing

create your crossover at any angle required then press weld ,at this point you will get a grey box appear above where you crossed the tracks,click on the box and this will render your crossing.


hope this helps


joe whittaker

ps if your asking info for route building i would suggest putting your post in route building forum as lots of the route builders check posts in there first.

[gptech]

You haven't helped Jim before have you Joe?
No offence meant here Jim, but we have to go one step at a time and give fairly detailed and exact instructions on what to click, what the clicky thing looks like---"click on weld" is a good example of something Jim would read and not understand y'see.

[whittaker]

point taken

"pardon the pun"

joe