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I wanted to share a couple of pictures of my turntable and roundhouse stalls as they are at present. It is a Diamond Scale 134' girder turntable with 36 engine stalls (20 roundhouse stalls), three leads for the inbound and outbound tracks, and one lead for the back shop. The first wall of the roundhouse is pretty well completed, but the roundhouse is on hold for my winter project. I was going to use the NYRS indexing system, but I happened to find a 40 position double pole rotary switch. Along with an MRC transformer and a couple more double pole switches, I can control the polarity, turntable speed and indexing just fine.
Oh yeah, I thought I would show off some of my locomotive rooster.
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Posted - July 04 2013 : 11:56:01 PM
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Looks like you are a heavy hitter in the train game.
What is the NYRS indexing system?
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 01:30:51 AM
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Wow, that's going to be a massive roundhouse. I really like that turntable.
I just noticed the rotary switch in the background. Are the wires color coded?
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 02:33:14 AM
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Now THATS impressive! The roundhouse scratchbuilt?
I scratchbuilt a turntable, 150 footer (alittle bigger then I needed) BUT, looks AWESOME, and will have 20 stall Roundhouse interior, with a few RIP tracks, and a few leads, with a few by passing tracks to the loco shop out back of the turn table....One lead will be for water, and coal, one going outbound will be ashing, and then I'll have a third for expansion.....OR incoming/awaiting.....
I have yet to get pictures of this all!
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 06:53:04 AM
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* Well it looks great to me to. Is there, or will there be a layout tied into it for running the locomotives. Good luck with everything.
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 09:16:01 AM
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It is a nice turntable, but there is still a lot of fine tuning and detail work to finish on it. I wanted a big turntable to be handle the large locomotives. The EM1, Allegheny, Big Boy, and Challenger sized locos are on my bucket list, so we are gonna have to have room for them. lol
Here is the switch. At the moment I only have the power leads soldered in place, and I may hook all the common wires up to a separate bus bar. I experimented on one of the positions and discovered that I can run a power lead off both poles and not have a short internally. I was pondering having an indicator light of some sort for each stall or lead track for identification when that particular track is selected, to help the operator know which track they have selected.
The roundhouse will be scratch built, with the exterior details being from Grandt Line. I was going to do a full blown interior (and that may happen in the future), but at the present I am wanting a place to park the steam locomotives to keep the dust off of them. So I may just mock up a quick card stock structure for them.
Yes it will be attached to my "empire layout" The room is 24 x 29 and it has been deemed the "train room". I have some things in there to contend with (as we always do), so I will not be able to use the entire space, but a very large portion of it will be for the big layout. Directly behind this table is the next layout section that will be attached to this one. Overall the locomotive facilities will be approximately 6' x 14' and will allow some room at the end for leading off to the rest of the layout. This will be one of the peninsulas on the layout.
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 09:44:44 AM
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Sorry missed the question about the NYRS indexing system. It is from New York Railway Supply, and is called Programmable Turntable Controller, PTC for short version. On a basic sense, it is a digitally controlled indexing control for turntables. It is a very nice system and I wanted it very bad. But once I started playing with mine and realized that when the operator is seated, they would be no more then 4' from any one track, I found that I can control and index the track by eye very easily. And I should have no problem switching over to DCC when and if that time comes along.
Here is a link to the webpage:
http://www.nyrs.com/
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 10:32:03 AM
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Blane,
Impressive to say the least1 The larger loco's take a ton of space.....Boy, don't I know that one, my same service facility, is going to take up a full 4 by 8 sheet! IF NOT MORE!
My 2 stall engine house is just over 3 feet long and depending on its design could end up damn near 4 feet if not 4 feet on the money!
Then you got me, being me, I've scratchbuilt my turntable1 its scale 150 footer! Nice one tho, that I still need to get pictures of......
I used a newer Alas turntable under it for my indexing.....Worked out, pretty well!
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 11:29:00 AM
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| Yea, yea, yea, the round house is very sweet and all that, but the first thing I seen was that Western Pacific GP20!!! It's the last TYCO geep I need.... How long have you been building this?
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 11:37:19 AM
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| Yea, yea, yea, the round house is very sweet and all that, but the first thing I seen was that Western Pacific GP20!!! It's the last TYCO geep I need.... How long have you been building this?
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 8:29:16 PM
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Just enlarged the pictures those Chessie C-630's are AWESOME! I WILL have me a set of them.....Just because they're Chessie and they are older "High-Nose" diesels!
Whats the cab owner ship ICC tag on those? C&O?
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 9:22:50 PM
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quote:Yea, yea, yea, the round house is very sweet and all that, but the first thing I seen was that Western Pacific GP20!!! It's the last TYCO geep I need.... How long have you been building this?
Originally posted by GG-1 Guy - July 05 2013 : 11:29:00 AM
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You mean I got a rare loco in that Western Pacific? I picked it up off ebay a month ago for $25. I just thought it was a really nice looking loco and though it would be a nice addition to the fleet. It does have a slight blemish on the top of it, you have to be pretty close to it in order to see the blemish, it runs really well though.
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 9:29:36 PM
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quote:Just enlarged the pictures those Chessie C-630's are AWESOME! I WILL have me a set of them.....Just because they're Chessie and they are older "High-Nose" diesels!
Whats the cab owner ship ICC tag on those? C&O?
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Yes John, they are owned by the C&O, and they carry the usual #1102 road number. The one closest to the turntable is a Mantua/Tyco and has metal handrails, it has a loose sideframe on the front truck, but we'll get that replaced soon. The other is a Tyco with plastic handrails, which I will get replaced with metal handrails. They both run well and still look pretty good! I need to get more of them, but they tend to be commanding some high prices as of late. So we'll just keep looking for now.
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Posted - July 05 2013 : 10:03:02 PM
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I started this project back in the winter of 1994 and 1995, just after I lost my son in a car accident. I worked on it for about six months and then just lost all interest in model railroading. At that time I was going to model in fine scale, what a flippin' nightmare that became. I discovered that fine scale was too much intricacy for me. The tables sat in my workshop/ junk room covered in everything imaginable.
Last summer I uncovered the table behind this one in order to set up a loop of track to test new loco purchases. I spent last winter working on the design and the first sidewall of the roundhouse. Then it came to the point of needing the turntable accessible to check the length and sizing of the wall I had built. I spent two weeks carefully uncovering the turmtable, praying for no damage.
Once I had it uncovered and cleaned, I found that I had built the wall longer then what the individual stalls were. The wall was built to the length I would need for the bigger articulated locos, the tracks could only handle locos up to a 2-10-2. I was lucky that not all of the stall tracks had been covered in plaster, and I could modify the length to compensate for the bigger locos. Six of the stalls will hold the bigger locos, the rest of the stalls will leave me some open floor space to allow me to detail the interior if I choose to do that later.
The track is code 83 Walters/Shinohara, I have a another 12-15 pieces of flextrack left, along with a few double crossovers and other turnouts that will be used on the next section that will be the lead into this one to hold the water. coal, sand, and diesel facilities. I am wishing that I would have done this in code 100, the tolerances are very close to not working when it comes to combination of the plaster and the larger flanges of the wheels. But with some patience and perseverance, it works great.
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Posted - July 06 2013 : 4:26:32 PM
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blaneo,
Cool and I give you credit for attempting it. Hope to see more pictures. Not a project for someone with attention deficit problems.
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Posted - July 07 2013 : 08:14:01 AM
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I have actually found my own attention deficit disorder to be of help as of late. I figured out that if I just planned out my day with jobs or tasks that would only take one or two hours at the most, I was completing the bigger projects in basically the same amount of time. I have found that having two or three projects (whatever they be) going at the same time, I could jump from one thing to another when I got bored with something. I don't think it is so much as losing interest in the project at hand, as it is moving on and doing something else until you get bored with that one, and move back to the first one. Just my pennies worth, and it works for me.
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