But, of course, I have a roundhouse and a turntable on the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western!!! Heavens, back in 1925, there is no way you could function without all the “proper” facilities. [swg]
Here is a shot looking through the coal tower down at the turntable and the roundhouse.
An overview of the area (part of the required photos for the NMRA Scenery Certificate):
And a couple of the interior of the Roundhouse.
73
Ray,I just gotta comment…
WOW!
i like that shot looking through the coal tower…[tup][tup]
Very nice, Ray. The interior of the roundhouse is very realistic. [tup]
-Crandell
I most emphatically must say “Ditto ditto” !!!
Well done. I especially like the view of the hill in the background through the coaling tower.
John
I don’t know guys… is there any proof that these are really shots of a model? [8D] great work all around!
Eventually the Citrus Belt of 1920 will have two turntables, nothing fancy, just a couple 90 foot armstrong types. I have no need for a enginehouse or support structures beyond a water tank and standpipe. Oil will be stored in obsolete tank cars on a stub track off the tt and pumped to the tenders as required.
Dave
Thank you folks! I had a lot of fun putting that part of the layout together over the past several years.
Oh, BTW if you have a turntable and Roundhouse, back in the days of staem, you also had to at least have a water standpipe, ash pit, and loco cleanout tools…
73
Got mine:
Since this photo was taken, I’ve finished scenery around it. No roundhouse yet, but I intend to make a 2-stall roundhouse eventually.
I scratch built the pit and the bridge is a craftsman kit. I use 4 mm sealed bearings for the wheels that ride on the ring rail (that worked out really well) and it is powered via a a hand crank an a 100:1 gearbox (indexing is by eyeball). The man on the deck is my indicator for which way to throw the polarity switch.
Yes I have a Roundhouse and turntable on my layout. It is fully fuctional but it is used as a museum, like Steamtown in PA. I loosely model the Ontario Northland Railway in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I have a lot of diesel and steam loco’s from Canadian Railways as well as a few UP steamers and I needed a reason to have a few of them on the layout to show them off. I decided to model a train museum that way I can explain why a Union Pacific Big Boy would be parked next to a VIA Rail FP9A. As for the ONR loco’s and the odd CN and CP loco that finds its way up to Northern Ontario, they are all serviced by two engine servicing facilities at opposite ends of my layout. I don’t turn my ONR loco’s.
Being that I’m modeling the PC the short answer is no I have no tt or rh on my layout plans. Diesels were the standard by then and passenger trains were limited. But they are some of those details that almost have to be included on a layout so I’m going to cheat a bit.
At the southern end of the Powhattan Secondary there must have been at least a tt and possibly a small roundhouse or locos would have needed to run backwards for 20 plus miles. If any passenger trains ran that far the consist would have been backwards as well. Topographic maps show that a wye would have been impratical but runaround moves were possible.
So while I’m modeling the early 70’s and have no functional need for a tt, I’ll add the remnants of one and maybe run a steam excursion to it to have a reason for it’s existance.
If I backdate to the 40’s I’d need a much bigger basement, maps show at least 6 tt in the greater Cleveland area alone.
Hello I have a roundhouse and turn table. My layout is freelanced so I run the service area like a truck stop. Any loco can stop and get what it needs. One thing I did wrong was I had no plan so thing’s are not where they should be here are some pic’s
Have a nice day Frank
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2742/4405343182_685343948b_b.jpg
Good day sir. Toronto 1973, CN and CP roundhouses, before the Skydome, during the CN tower construction. Fully dieselized but with heritage excursion engines and trolleys, both roundhouses were well used at that time, and with the tower construction, it was well within my childhood memories. Still under construction, hopefully finished by the middle of next year. Thank you for an excellent forum.
Bill
This may work a little better:
Wayne
I was researching the CN and CP roundhouses when I came across your post. Did you ever finish the project? The photo you provided looked amazing! I’m giving the same scene a crack (early to mid 80’s though).
That was the only post from teenyweeny and it was nearly six years ago, so you may not get a response.
Rich
Those of us who model the modern era (the CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Sub. is set in the early to mid-1990s) can still remember the past by including a filled-in turntable pit, as I do on my layout.
Read more at http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.ca/2010/04/vestiges-of-past-on-m-m-sub-or-how-to.html
John Longhurst, Winnipeg