Installing Turntable
Thanks for the response to my turntable problem,The room I have available for the railroad has appox.12'X10' of bench work space. In the last house we lived in I had 2 levels that covered 20X30 feet.Double track main line and a lot of yard space.It was in a rental house and had to be dismanteled when we moved.I sold all of my equipment,except for a couple of power packs,and that old turn table.My plan was to join a club if the railroad bug ever bit again.As luck would have it I took a job that was located right across the road from the east end of the CSX yard on the old NYC main line( Dewitt Yard) On lunch hour I would watch endless freight and passenger trains going by at high speed.Started buying MR and going to hobby shops again.Well I sure don't have the space for the kind of layout I would love to have;but I'm going to have that engine terminal and a yard.I think the turntable,roundhouse,and some outside stalls will take a space 4X4 With careful planning I hope I can do 3 foot shelves around the room to allow 30 inch radius on the outside track.Can see the dreaded duck under coming.With the use of a hole thru a wall I may be able to use space in my gun room as a staging yard.So its slow going arm chair model railroading,with some kit building at this time.Its hard to believe as much as I enjoy trains that I ever sold everything;but buying the house was a struggle,and at the time the money came in handy.My other passion is Rifles and reloading ammunition,so except for the laundry area,furnace and water heater I 've got the whole basement in use.The turntable motor works well;but is loud,plan to replace the old brass rail,and make a pit rail and add a operators shack on the table.If I can't make it work well Ill buy a diamond scale unit after I have the motive power i want.I love engines Wouldn't it be nice if Atlas made a lighting stripe RS1 again,or someone did a Niagara 4-8-4 that did not require a mortage.