Roundhouse questions

This photo of an actual set of plans show15'- 20' or so of space at the end of the track to the end wall on a 120' long stall.

 

Your mileage may vary.

Think I'm going to go with 15 feet. Seems about right.

Thanks Moonman.

If I'm reading that plan correctly, the rails go all the way to the back wall. It is the inspection pit that ends well short.

The 320 is slightly smaller than the 304.   The tracks extend to within an inch of the rear wall of the house.  Some of the large engines will take close to the 28" available on the 304.  The 304 also has an extender kit that adds a cube to the end for additional space.
Floor layout.

An extender kit added to the 304

Floor layout with the extender.

How long are the locomotives you want to store in that roundhouse?  It seems to me that you'd want to make sure that the tracks are long enough to hold your longest locomotives.

I've been in several roundhouses on the GTW and if I remember correctly, the storage tracks (far side of the RH) ended pretty close to the wall - within 8 feet or so. The service tracks had 15-20 feet of space in the front to which an assortment of tooling, benches, and in-process components were arrayed. Engines on the storage tracks were ready to go but the fires were banked. It would take over a half hour to get one out of the RH and over to the coal tower. Another 15-20 minutes later the engine would head over to the coach yard and tie onto the cars for the move to the passenger station. Mind you that was over 50 years ago...

 

Neil

 

  

Maby I will run the tracks closer to the back wall after all.

With respect to the actual space in the roundhouse, I really have no factual data, however most people who build our models want to fit their largest engines in side (As Bob notes).  Typically the tracks extend almost to the back wall, often with some sort of stop at the end.

what is the size of your module you are placing the korber kit on

 

i am also trying to figure out how you are going to run it into your mainline (i.e. do you have a layout drawing you might care to share) 

 

it certainly seems to take up a good amount of space

 

thank you

 

 

The three modules pictures are:
T module is 6ft wide X 5ft(toward the turntable).
TT module is 4ft X 4ft
RH module is 4ft X 4ft

This set up on my layout was done 5' X 7' with a smaller TT, same Korber 304 house. The TT is a Diamond Scale with a 26 1/2" bridge.


Layout TT in operation, click on the image to access a video.

This video was done to show how the 304 Ross Switches work, but it does show the basic access to the TT via the "Y" module.

Lay out design. The main lines are to the wall side of the turntable.

thank you again

 

i hope to add a similar configuration

 

nicely done

 

j

Most of us who have a TT and RH are already pressed for space as it is. Even though it would be great to have 15'-20' between the end of the track and the back wall, we just don't have the extra 4"-5" to give up on the inside of the RH. Our tracks pretty much go all the way back so we can fit a Bigboy in every stall.

 

Obviously this is not a Korber kit, but we still needed every inch we could get to fit articulated engines inside the RH. The track that goes behind the RH just clears the back wall with a 21" passenger car, but its a reverse loop so it doesn't get used that much anyway, unless they are delivering equipment to the facility, then they can unload a flat car right there at the freight door. 

 

MikeCT,

Thanks for the photo of the T module. I have been having trouble laying out the wye track in a few designs I have been working on. I wanted the wye closer to the switches and it just doesn't work easily. I like how you dropped it close to the TT to fit the curves from the switches.