Let's see your Turntable/Roundhouse/Terminal Photos!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I’d like to see how you did the ground scenery around your steam/diesel engine service terminal yard. Please post photos!

Thanks…

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Here is the Seneca Falls engine servicing complex…such as it is.

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You can visualize mine easily. Picture nothing. There it is. Maybe two, three years and you will see an 4x9’ yard, passenger terminal and roundhouse!

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Here are a few views of the Erie Northshore’s engine terminal in Lowbanks, Ontario.

I hope you’re not sorry that you asked! [;)] [:D] [:D]

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Mine still accumulating in the boxes they came home in. I have two more items to get later this year… the TT and the desiel fuel area. Hate to be honest but showing a aged Revell Desiel Fuel and Sand house 1960 built up that has been restored does not really cut it.

What motivated me to trash my old former engine service was my PRR J1. I pulled up next to it to get a dallop of coal. You see the total capacity of that tender looked to be more than the AHM tower I was using back then and the water would drain that wooden tower too.

So I had to budget and buy new stuff for a new facility.

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Hey! I resemble that.

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Pit-Bash in process. This is an Atlas deck turntable. I wanted a “True Pit” turntable, but I don’t have room for a “real” one.

I sunk the whole mechanism down 2 inches, and took an Atlas deck bridge. I cut it horizontally and glued it back together to make it less tall. Here, it’s placed on a hub on the deck.

I didn’t want the turntable pit floor to rotate, so I put the hub on another pedestal of styrene, and built a false floor. The false floor is attached to the gray outer ring of the turntable, and doesn’t rotate, although the deck below, with the bridge attached, all turns together. This is what it looks like now. My plans are to install the pit wall over the next week or so.

The roundhouse has been in place for a while, but it lacks interior lighting and the planned rock foundation. This is a shot from a while back:

For that photo, I removed the roof of the roundhouse, so there’s lots of light from the large floor lamp in the background.

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This was my engine service area on my old n scale layout. The layout got too big and was sold before we moved. I miss it…

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doctorwayne - Gooooood stuff right there!

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Thanks, fifedog, although I’m surprised that most of the pictures came out so small. I think that I need to reset my photobucket album.

Wayne

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This is based on the turntable that used to be at Avery ID.

its now serving as a mountain branchline turn around for helper service locos.