If you wanted to build a roundhouse with say 18 stalls, could you build all 6, 145’ stalls at one end of the roundhouse, like the prototypes? Or would you have to build each 145’ stall with each 3 stall kit?
Just to clarify, you are asking about the Walthers Cornerstone roundhouse.
Rich
Yes
#933-2901 add on kit to #933-2900 roundhouse.
Sheldon
Hi Sheldon
My understanding of the Walthers roundhouse kits is that the #933-2900 kit comes with two side walls. The add on kits do not have side walls. You start with the #2900 kit but leave off one side wall. Then you add as many additional stall kits #2901 as you want, and then finish the last addition with the remaining side wall from the first kit. If you buy several #2900 kits to join together you will have several extraneous side walls and you will have wasted a bunch of money buying side walls and offices that you will never use.
If you want a second office you could buy two #2900 kits. One office could be for the mechanical repairs and the other could be for boiler/body repairs. I’m not very knowledgeable about prototype steam service facilities but some sort of separation of responsibilities would make sense.
Dave
What Sheldon wants to know is whether you can re-arrange the location of the 145’ long stalls or whether they are fixed in place.
I built my 9-stall roundhouse years ago and cannot remember how that works.
Rich
I put together the Walther’s RH plus 1 extension for a total of 6 stalls. It’s been over a year since I did but I seem to remember that the floor sections are no issue, it is the back walls. If you wanted to put several of larger sections together you could probably modify the outer Wall with some other manufacturers wall material. One issue may be the stability of those walls since they would be in a bent, almost straight line instead of a U shape, but inside bracing could probably fix that. Hope this helped.
Strictly from memory, I seem to recall that the longer stalls are installed by an add-on floor piece and wall extensions that are included with the kit. Which makes me think that you can place the longer stalls where you want.
I am not home right now and my original box and instructions are in the attic over my garage so I cannot check right now.
Rich
Thanks for all your help Rich.
Sheldon
I couldn’t stand it any longer, not recalling the setup from memory, so I climbed into the attic over my garage and went through the large cardboard boxes until I found the box with the boxes for the round house and the add-on stalls.
The answer to the OP’s question is that you can group the larger stalls together.
Each kit, both the round house and the add-on stalls kit, comes complete with one additional extended stall. As the instructions note, “there are only enough parts to make one extended stall”. So, the round house includes one extension section, and each add-on stall kit includes one extension section.
Those parts include a section of flooring (base), a back wall for the extension, two side extension walls, and extension walls caps (a top trim).
Hope that helps, which I am sure it will.
Rich