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Should the turntable stay or go?

C ChipOGR Forum Member

I am trying to decide if I should remove or keep the turntable on my layout.  My gut tells me to get rid of it so I can add more real estate for a town and place a two stall engine house in place of it. If I get another switch and place it on the spur that returns back to the line on the right side I think it would work.

Another point for me to consider is what the cost of getting the turntable back to fully automatic would be, I started chasing down the parts last year but have not followed up on locating them again since my first couple attempts in getting them were unsuccessful.  I think a good estimate of cost to get it back in auto again would be about 300.00 bucks.

 Any thoughts about the benefit of keeping or removing it?  

 





 

 

 

 

 

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Mike CTMike CTOGR Forum Member

That is a Diamond Scale OT27, or smaller, Turntable. As long as you have operational access to the TT so that you can "eye-ball" align the rails it should work well without the indexing system. I have mine controlled by a double pole, double throw (momentary) cross over switch, (Clockwise/Counterclockwise)  I do have an adjustment, variable resistor that fine tunes the speed of the TT. There are marks on the pit wall close to the TT control switch that allows for main track out of the pit area alignment.

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AceAceOGR Forum Member

The turntable gives an easy opportunity to add more tracks to park locos, if you end up with extra locos like most of us do. It also provides the only hands-off way to turn locos on your layout, which provides some operating variety. If it was me, I might take out one of the two lead tracks to the turntable to provide more room to add engine tracks (or car repair tracks, if you have a short loco to ride with a freight car on the turntable). If it wasn't already there the layout wouldn't absolutely need a turntable, but seeing that you already have it in place I would be inclined to keep it. Sounds like Mike CT indexes his turntable OK without an expensive system. My two cents worth.

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