Question about Millhouse River turntable.

It is more than that. The Atlas roundhouse is X degrees and depending on the size of the turntable, the track may be needed to be tweaked with bends, etc. Someone once posted a degree chart to explain all this.

with the 24" turntable.   The Kober is set up for a 31" turntable.  You can make them all work, but they look better if the angle the roundhouse sections are made  similar to the angle of the whisker tracks. For example, a 24" turntable will need flex track going into the stalls of a Kober. The Atlas is made for their 24" turntable and thus would work well with any 24" turntable. It is very interesting when you sit down and draw the different combinations. Fred

I'm mean the 24" Millhouse. I know the atlas roundhouse was deigned to go with their 24" turntable. I have both right now on my layout but am done with the atlas turntable. It a price of $&*#. So am thinking of trashing the atlas and going with a Millhouse.

I have the 28 inch Millhouse turntable.  The turntable is one fine piece of machinery that will serve you well.  Al is a great business man who takes care of his customers.   Check out the customer photos on the Millhouse web site.  Several different manufacture's roundhouses customers used are presented.  The Korber web site also has a basic guide using a Millhouse turntable .

 

Chris

Gromet,

 

What you need to do is e-mail Al of Millhouse and Dave Hikel who has all of the math worked out. Between the two of them, you will get a solution.

 

Scrappy

I wasn't so worried about the radius of the Atlas roundhouse mating up with the Millhouse turntable, my concern was that on the Atlas roundhouse the base brings the tracks going into the stalls up off of the ground a little bit (I don't know the exact measurement). I wasn't sure if this was the same distance that the deck of the Millhouse will be once installed.

The Millhouse tables have mounting tabs that can be used to adjust the table and primarily the top of bridge rail to the top of any stub rails.  IMO pretty well designed.  A little head scratchin' you should be able to mount this TT and adjust to your stub rails and/or the Atlas Roundhouse or any house for that matter. 

There is some pretty good detail from left over Bowser TT's install instructions that were posted on the Korber website about TT size and positioning in relation to the RH. The Korber Houses are 11 degree stall configurations, I'm not sure about the Atlas house most likely a good bit different in that it matched to the Atlas TT.  Here is a link to the Korber site and the recently posted TT/RH spacings.

From the Korber website
Planing guide #1

Older Bowser Planing guide.

Al Z's smaller TT may be a better choice for the Atlas House, you should contact him about the match-up.   I did a Korber 304 RH with one additional stall  to a Diamond Scale 27" TT with good results. Key is adjustment of the distance between the TT and the RH and the number of stalls.

Note how the stub rails move to the outside of the house as the house is positioned closer to the TT, rail has to center on the door.







If this was a six stall house there would be issues with the next  stub rails. note the bend in the exterior stub rail pictured.

Do your homework, there is a lot of good information and hobbyist who are familiar with this detail.
Best wishes
Mike CT

Thanks for the input to Gromet's questions guys. As Mike stated you might have to adjust the height of the turntable so the tracks coming from the Atlas RH mate up. Others have done this before. Others have also removed the Atlas roundhouse concrete apron but I think that was for a 28" turntable. No matter what the 24" will work with the Atlas roundhouse.

I have the 28 inch Millhouse Turn table, like mentioned above it is one fine piece of machinery. Here's a photo of mine.

 

Alex

The angular increment of the indexing mechanism would be the critical dimension when trying to match a turntable to a roundhouse.  I think the Atlas is 7.5 degrees.  Does the Millhouse turntable have a indexing feature?

Alex,

Those are nice pictures of your turntable. Especially the second one!

You should post more pictures of your engine facility. I'd really like to see more pictures of your nicely done roundhouse and turntable facility.

Mike R

I have the 34" Millhouse turntable and love it!!  I also have the Atlas roundhouse.  I bought two of the Atlas kits and made a 6 stall roundhouse.  I positioned the roundhouse from the turntable so that there would be no curvature to the stub tracks and I lowered the roundhouse by cutting out the half inch quietbrace to the exact pattern of the foundation.  Then I filled in each track groove that Atlas made for the stub tracks so that I could make the stub tracks go straight into each stall opening.  The height of the door openings in each stall can be an issue for the larger steam locomotives so you may need to carefully adjust the height of the roundhouse so that it is even lower than the table top.  If I had to do it over, I would NOT have used the foundation...

 

Alan

 

I would like to 2nd that motion! I also have the 34" and I too love it. I know it is a lot more money than the Atlas TT but when you go to use it you will realize it is worth every penny.

 

Alex, great job on that TT. I love the chain link fencing. It gives it a realistic "city" feel.

 

Mike CT,

I've always admired your TT too. A couple of questions (Gromet my apologies for slightly changing the subject): Mike, the wood framing inside your roundhouse, is that part of the Korber kit or did you scratchbuild it? In your first picture posted above is the framing attached or glued to the Korber walls? Last question what is the dimension of the framing? Thanks in advance.

 

 

Guys, I have some great news. Testing of our programing of our indexing system is finishing up and we are getting the control boards made up. Should hopefully have them by York.