Rocky Mountaineer posted:
- Secondly, turntables tend to come as a SQUARE assembly. Check with Millhouse and/or Ross, and you'll see what I'm referring to.
The Ross turntable comes mounted on a square framework. The Millhouse turntable is round with some flanges underneath to mount it to the layout. You will need a couple of inches of table top beyond the turntable pit so the flanges can be secured in place.
Also, you will not be able to fit as many tracks into a roundhouse as close to the pit as you have drawn. There needs to be clearance between the tracks at the roundhouse entrance so that 2 locomotives can clear the roof support post. It's really easy to be too optimistic in terms of what will actually fit when drawing plans.
