I have a Walthers Cornerstone 90' table installed, complete with
electronic positioning.
Easy to install and easy to align.
I've bought another one for the other end of the layout, and our club
has one installed, too.
Both too recent to give reliability info.
The indexing is "next position right" and "next position left", so if
you have lots of stalls and approach tracks, it may take a while.
Mark
Same here. I'm usually disappointed with Walther's kits as I think they are
poorly designed and don't go together well but in the case of this
turntable, I'm 100% supportive. It's excellent.
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Cheers
Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra /
Latitude: 48° 25' North
Longitude: 123° 21' West
A friend of mine has a Walthers one too, and it's much better than the
previous one he had for like 10 years, maybe more. It was ok, at first,
but seemed to deteriorate over time, and stopped being even close to
lining up after a while. He eventually made a manual crank drive for it
and only turned it about once a year, it was just too big a hassle. When
he moved and took down the layout, the section with the turntable wasn't
moved, it got sold to someone in his model train club, and totally
redone.
I played with it a long time last time I was over there, it seemed to be
about as perfect as I could have hoped for. I did a lot of moving locos
in and out of his roundhouse.
BDK
Well, he had it when his old dog was a pup, mine was about the same age,
so about 85-86 is about the time he put it in. It jerked, and most of
the time, refused to line up right the first few times. As it aged, it
got worse, and it was just easier to put the crank drive, some sort of
mechanism from some old barn his dad had, in and do it the old fashioned
way.
I don't remember who made it, but it wasn't cheap and was pretty big as
a Challenger and tender fit on it. Barely.
BDK
Keep in mind there have been two Walthers 90ft turntables.
One, of ten years ago, a kit of Walthers dubious kit quaility that was a
piece of crap. I know, I bought one.
Then there's the "Cornerstone Built Up" of a year or so ago, which is just
excellent.
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Cheers
Roger T.
Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-
http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra /
Latitude: 48° 25' North
Longitude: 123° 21' West
Those Walthers kits were produced by Heljan. The
mechanisim/electrification/indexing was something of an afterthought as
it was a solution based on low cost.
Heljan's current turntable for European markets is superb.
Arnold made (makes) an excellent TT for N gauge.
Fleischmann makes two excellent TTs, HO plus an N gauge TT which can
also be bought with TT scale or HO decks. (short)
Roco also makes a 20m deck HO turntable.
Any of these would make a good mechanism on which you could build a
(larger) US TT and achieve a reliable operating TT.
Regards,
Greg.P.
I doubt that there's a big enough market - although Heljan is apparently
doing good business in the UK with O gauge.
Converting HO turntables to O gauge wouldn't be too hard if you want a
short one.
I've done several fron N gauge to HO (Peco and Arnold)
Greg.P.
Greg P -
I'll have to check when I get to the shop, but I'm fairly certain they have
a separate catalog. Here's a link to their online catalog:
http://www.atlaso.com /
Paul
trainsetsonly.com
I couldn't find an Atlas-O catalog at the shop other than one specific to
their Atlas-O line of track (which does include their turntable). I'm
guessing we did have one that included loco's and rolling stock, but just
cannot locate it.
Paul
trainsetsonly.com
Here's the turntable:
https://secure.atlasrr.com/ato1/itemdesc.asp?CartId ={FD15AAFD-92CD-4D3D-
B38B-37ECCFEVERESTAD6D36}&ici10&eq=&Tp
Here's the O site:
http://www.atlaso.com /
BDK
Greg,
Yes, Atlas-O has their own web page and a seperate catalog from the
HO/N stuff. I think they were set up as an semi-independent unit,
however that's described in business terms.
Len
I've seen kits advertised on the Gauge O Guild gazette: range of sizes
from 42' up to 70', IIRC, and a range of types. I vauguely seem to recall
one of the tinplate-revivalist firms (ACE, maybe?) offering one in
ready-to-use form, but I'd not swear to that. I don't //think// anyone
does a ready-to-use one in finescale O..
Certainly that woudl work fine for a 40-some' turntable (in O). It's
probably the route I'm going to go down, given that the biggest things I'm
going to want to turn on it are 6-wheel engines + 4-wheel tenders.
--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
I've done this with an Arnold N gauge TT for my HO layout after building
several nasty TTs from scratch.
The only downsides are initial cost (I got it cheap) and that it needs
careful mounting to cut down the 'mech in plastic" noise.
It works perfectly every time!
Regards,
Greg.P.
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