Hello all,
I have a 33 inch Ross Turntable and I am looking for recommendations on a roundhouse to go with it. Any suggestions? Thanks!
AJ
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A.J. posted:Hello all,
I have a 33 inch Ross Turntable and I am looking for recommendations on a roundhouse to go with it. Any suggestions? Thanks!
AJ
Brennan's Roundhouse is the most American looking of the bunch followed by the Atlas O roundhouse. IT really depends on your budget and skill to build one.
Altoona Model Works
Before you buy, check the angle at which the stall doors abut. This is one of the key factors in determining how far the RH must be placed from the TT to get the stall tracks to enter on a straight line. I have included an address to another RH-TT placement discussion here on the forum which might help.
https://ogrforum.com/...sign-part-two?page=3
Chuck
Crescent Locomotive works also builds them and I think will do a custom job.
Harry Hieke makes a nice one.
Chuck unfortunately most of the Roundhouse kits I'm looking up aren't listing the angles at which the stall doors abut. So when I bought the Ross turntable I intended to purchase one of their roundhouses in which the track and stall doors are 7.5 degrees. However, I didn't realize how big the Ross roundhouse was, its 38 inches deep and has to be placed 14.5 inches from the pit so it won't fit.
Boy A.J. that's the pits.... eh?
I believe they all take up quite a bit of real estate. I've got one of the old smaller Korber ones and an Atlas TT that I was planning on using but don't believe I'll have the room.
If you build an around the walls layout, it is often possible to put in an engine terminal on a peninsula jutting out into the middle of the space/room. If wide enough space, you can run the mainline around the edge of the peninsula behind the roundhouse and back to make a U shaped layout with longer run. Around the walls always gives more sq ft of layout in the same place as an island when you add aisles around the island.
Roundhouse needs to provide door center line spacing and degree of separation which obviously matches the track center line. You need to either lay the track to match the round house or custom build the RH to match the track. Fudging can be done but it can get a bit whimsical when you see curved tracks entering the door ways on each end of the RH.
In my case I will need a custom built asymmetrical RH.
RH and TT can gobble a lot of real estate.
