I was given a large turntable years back and never figured I had a place to put it.. So I was for awhile trying to give it a way. But no one wanted to come and get it. So got tired of having it tarped back of storage barn.
So the day came and I started to look around to see where I could put a large manual turntable that was in pretty bad shape. We only have a single track sys. with lots of blocks and figured I would need a place to run trains around each other or a by pass I guess you would call it. Then it hit me coming off of the main line by the storage barn I could install that large turntable to store extra power and run train around each other by taking off the main line around the barn and back to the main line. See Print. ( No way to scale and kind of fuzzy.) New add on are the tracks in red on right side of print going around the storage barn. -----------------------------------------------------Approx. 210 foot.----------------------------------------- "Hard to beleive layout is over 400 foot of track or more."  The turntable was set on blocks then added drain holes in pit. Then painted and weather sealed. All Tracks from the main line are about one foot off the ground using 2 X 6's for the tracks to lay on and 1/2 " PVC for the stantions. That area is so uneven all the way back to the main line. Here is photos of it being first set in place and a "Y" constucted using the 2 x 6's and adding gussets to maintain the track curves I needed. Testing turntable and tracks.. This is the first phase done for now.. I was given a a few boxes of LGB curve tracks that Ii had to use a Train Li binder to make straight tracks.. What a job that was.. They want to spring back to curves on some of them.. But it took a few days of playing with them to get what I needed. Noel |