Gallows accessory?

Are you referring to a gallows turntable or a gallows suitable for an execution? Specific Please.

My question exactly, and in the past on the bay, l have seen kits for both types.

Diamond Scale had a gallows kit.   Usually a very small TT, early railroad.   A quick search of the website, there is still something there, 56 scale ft.  I have a larger Diamond Scale TT.     

Well, . . . hmm, . . . I meant gallows as in hanging a bad guy.

Sorry, I had no idea that there were turn-table items with this name.

So, anybody got a hanging gallows on their layout?

Mannyrock

@Mannyrock posted:

Well, . . . hmm, . . . I meant gallows as in hanging a bad guy.

Sorry, I had no idea that there were turn-table items with this name.

So, anybody got a hanging gallows on their layout?

That's something that even I could kitbash, it should be really simple.

Here's a link to a picture of a Gallows TT: http://www.nsrm-friends.org/nsrm48.html

I have to ask this because no one else did, what kind of layout are you building?

@Mannyrock posted:

Well, . . . hmm, . . . I meant gallows as in hanging a bad guy.

Sorry, I had no idea that there were turn-table items with this name.

So, anybody got a hanging gallows on their layout?

Mannyrock

Why?  We've got trees everywhere and they are cheaper.

      John, no reason to kitbash for this one.  Thunder Mesa Studios has a great model kit, wood and metal, and lots of detail, for only $25.

     Dan,  I'm building a western layout, 1890 to 1910-ish, when the industrial revolution in the U.S. was booming, but there were still lots of rural areas out west where there was still old time lawlessness and rustling, and local sheriffs and marshals still ran down and hung bad guys. 

     Butch Cassidy was actively robbing trains from 1890 to 1903, and Tom Horn, the Army scout who tracked down Geronimo, and later became a "cattle regulator" for the rich ranchers (i.e. a rustler assassin), was finally captured and hung in 1903. (Meanwhile, John D. Rockefeller was designing and building thousands of miles of oil pipelines, and J.P. Morgan was single- handedly inventing the Investment Banking Industry).

     A very interesting period,  when the last of the rural frontier culture was usurped by a new age of incredible technological inventions and machines.   So, a layout  for this period can have a lot of clashing diversity in it.

Mannyrock

Interesting era, but not too many O gauge trains available for this period. (with arch bar trucks, truss rod rolling stock, coal oil loco headlamps, etc).

@Mannyrock posted:

   

     Dan,  I'm building a western layout, 1890 to 1910-ish, when the industrial revolution in the U.S. was booming, but there were still lots of rural areas out west where there was still old time lawlessness and rustling, and local sheriffs and marshals still ran down and hung bad guys.

   

Western, eh? Cries out for one of the many Lionel General Sets.

For inspiration:  see John Wayne's Big Jake.

Well, maybe I'll have to stretch  the period out to 1920 or so.  The Big Jake film was a perfect example of the last edge of that era, where a Triumph motorcycle and semi-auto 9mm helped defeat an old time bandit on the Mexican border.  The film The Shootist also neatly addressed the era.

And, let us not forget that Wyatt Earp lived until 1929.     My father was 6 years old when Earp die

So, with that little stretch, probably lots more train stuff is possible.

Mannyrock

Oops, small correction, the pistol was a 7.63 Broom handle Mauser.

Just remember even in this later period, there were plenty of wood sided reefers, outside braced boxcars, 36 foot cars, and many cars still riding on arch bar trucks. The banning of these was extended many times due to the cost of replacing them on an entire fleet. The final actual ban on arch bar trucks from interchange service took place in 1941! They were still permitted in non-interchange and non-revenue service after this date.