| Archive for thecentralstation.myfreeforum.org Railway modelling for all Scales and Gauges |
| poliss |
US TurntablesIf you look at US locos they mostly seem to travel with the cab end at the front which must mean that there are still lots of turntables in the USA. Yet I haven't seen many photos of them on the web and never saw them when I was in the USA. Where do they hide them all? |
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| john s |
this one is in the open poliss
http://video.google.co.uk/videopl...Q&q=loco+turntables&hl=en |
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| poliss |
That's one massive turntable! I had no idea that any DD40Xs were still running either. Pity it's 6936 and not 6926 which is the one I have. | ||
| john s |
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| poliss |
General Motors built 47 of these massive 98'5" (30m) twin engine beasts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_DDA40X | ||
| john s |
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres...0%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D60
6926 poliss |
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| bando1_de |
@pol:
The reason why you don't see so many turntables on the other side of the pond ist that there are even more wyes than turntables. In a wye, they turn a complete train ! Saves shunting time... |
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| poliss |
Wye didn't I think of that? 
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| upnick |
Hi Poliss, Could you not renumber your loco  only one number
If memory serves me right all the AX's from Bachamnn had same road # have to have a look later 
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| poliss |
Not to the configuration 6396 has now. I read that it ran over a truck and the front end has been altered. | ||
| upnick |
Thats a shame Poliss as a renumber would be easy. | ||