Dave, You just brought up an interesting discussion about the Corkscrew
Gulch turntable that a narrow minded friend and I had just last weekend.
On a family vacation about 20 years ago, I rented a Jeep and we took a
couple of those trails. If you've never tried those trails you're
missing a big chunk of whoop-ass fun! The Jeep I had wouldn't say
running without a foot on the gas pedal, so I did most of my rock
crawling with my feet on all three pedals with the occasional stalling
on steep grades--pretty exciting to say the least! I was told of things
to look for in finding the remains of that turntable. I'm not sure I
ever did see it because the forest does grow back and take over the
area. At any rate, I did see the area--I swear!
In modeling such an endeavor, you certainly would need a perfect line-up
of the rails to avoid derailing within the turntable itself. It's no
fun fishing out engines from beneath a low roofed building. I would
also guess that it's probably a reason that most of us avoid building
the versions with the girder bracing above the pit also. I have the New
York Control drive and it's a wonderful product, but does take some work
to install properly. Mine does need some additional work as the locking
mechanism doesn't always work the way it should. So when an engine
enters onto the bridge it will sometimes force itself slightly to the
side derailing the remaining wheels. So the only solution is to reach
over and 0-5-0 the engine. That is fine for a typical single diesel
engine, but a large fellow like an 4-8-4 isn't fun.
Rusty Paulus, one of our senior members had used the Bowser turntable on
his past layout (past MR in the mid 80's and an ad for SHS's exclusive
RS-3's in the Gaugian). He never had his motorized, but to line things
up he used a piece of plastic as a 'bridge plate' and seemed to work
perfectly. So sometimes a no cost solution can match a $500+ product!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 2/16/12 9:28 PM, David Heine wrote:
And then there were the covered ones, which was another option to keep the
snow out. My favorite example being the one the Silverton Northern had on
its mainline at Corkscrew Gulch, if a switchback, or for that matter
anything on the Silverton Northern could be called a mainline. There was
actually a paper published on it in the American Society of Civil
Engineers
Transactions in 1890.
Dave Heine
Easton, PA
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Hi Bob --
You have made a good point. Many turntables had their support structure
above the rails - girder, truss and gallows. I have attached a photo of a
turntable in Tacoma, WA that I hope comes through...
Have fun!
Bill Winans
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