Make sure then when you are doing a search, you check the box indicating you are also interested in seeing out-of-stock items. The default with Walthers only searches in-stock items I believe. The new turntable is currently under advance reservation. You won’t find them for sale at any online retailers in general.
I managed to build one from spare parts collected on eBay. Lucky for me, it’s all come together well and I also swear by it. It certainly has accelerated my engine terminal module by about a year in not scratchbuilding one.
Not the best shot of the TT but this is the Diamond scale 135 footer with the older Heljan roundhouse kit and addon stalls, and a yep!This set up occupies large chunks of realstate.
While on price, kits may be cheaper but all I have read mentions high praise for assembled ones. When/if one is spending $200-300 for a good loco. why shoudln’t one spend at fair amount on such an real estate “investment item” as a TT? FOr $40 locos, may seem like overkill, but not for 2 or 3 $220-300 locos!
I would highly recommend the Walther’s 130’ RTR TT. I have both the Big Boy and Y6B and they fit but as was mentioned the Big Boy is a tight fit.
As for spiders: I drove from Connecticut to California in a 1957 THunderbird with a little brown spider on the top windshield frame the entire trip. I think I even spoke to it a few times (it was a lonely drive by myself!). Don’t know what ever happened to it?
The Big Boy required a 128 foot turntable and the Onion Specific built:
one . . . . . Ogden;
two . . . . . Evanston;
three . . . . . Green River;
when they moved the Big Boys out of the Wasatch onto Sherman they built ;
four . . . . . Laramie;
they didn’t need a 128 foot turntable at Cheyenne because they had a wye handy.
Where was number five?
I might add here that Walthers’ 130 footer is an unprototypical length but is necessary for Big Boy, Y6b, and Allegheny operations because of the extra space between engine and tender on our models.
