Good Day fellow garden railroaders. I am looking for a roundhouse in G-Scale. It must be at least 60" in length to hold a Big-Boy Locomotive.
I found a web page that offered a roundhouse that was the perfect size & length but accidently lost the page when someone else used the computer. The locomotive as you all know is 57" long, and I believe the roundhouse was motorized somehow. If someone out there has any information they wi***o post or email to me, my email address is as follows: onefifthscaler@yahoo.com
I have seen the plans for one made by a Japanese Australian gentlemen made out of a phongram turntable it looked pretty good too and quite practical.
Over the years i have changed my mind several times as to whether i want on eor not, but with the advent of MTS (Multi Train System) i can’t see that one would do me any good at all.
I think you’re gonna be looking at a custom order or a scratchbuild…I haven’t heard of anything commercially available like a roundhouse or a turntable for a Big Boy…thats a Whopper!
On mylargescale.com , I saw a 50+" turntable that was made using a circle of 4’ dia track in a pit, the turntable track ( a 2x4 with detailed sidepanels) had two Aristo motorblocks under it, one at each end and the whole thing turned using the motor blocks running around the circle. This could be done using 5 ’ dia track for the BB, but your still going to scratchbuilding your roundhouse.