BUILDING A MODEL OF A 30" RAILROAD TURNTABLE with Pictures and Drawings of Nine (9) Turntables lite •••• compiled & designed by Jack L. Winegar
What I am offering here is a lite, less expensive version of the same Booklet and Plan-Set offered for much more money on eBay. This version has everything the other version has for modeling this Turntable, but, ONLY 4) 13" x 19" Super B drawing sheets. Theses four (4) Super B drawings are the only drawings with full size details needed to be used as templates. All the other drawings are included but printed on 9½" x 13" Super A drawing sheets, and still very easy to read to build this unique model. Also, this Booklet and Plan-Set are shipped USPS 1st Class mail, not USPS Priority Mail, to keep costs down.
This is a new spiral bound booklet. Spiral binding allows the modeler to lay this book flat on their workbench.
This booklet describes and illustrates how to build a model of Turntable as they were built prototypically over 100 years ago - wood sizes and commercial styrene shapes are listed for a 30" Turntable on the Material List with full scale templates. The Plan-Set is a 60'Turntable designed in 1:24 scale, making it 30" long. This length is appropriate for other Large Scales as follows:
This balanced turntable is based on the turn-of-the-century turntables built by the Lassig Bridge Co. of Chicago, before, and after the Lassig Co. was purchased by the American Bridge Co. Many of these turntables were still in operation in the 1940's. Lassig built such turntables for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, C&N-W, Rock Island, and other railroads at varying lengths.
Obviously this design could be easily lengthened for larger engines and tenders. All details are commercially available with commercial styrene shapes only needing to be cut to length, from full size templates within the Plan-Set.
Turning can be accomplished by simply turning with a couple fingers as was accomplished prototypically by a good man or the Plan-Set gives you the option of using commercial gears. Such turning eliminates fancy electronics especially when used in a railroad garden. A front bicycle or tricycle wheel axle bearing is another turning option (which can be found along any street on “Garbage Day.”) Or, a simply block core between riveted side girders fastened to a Lazy Susan is another option.
The Plan-Set consists of 4) 13" x 19" Super B sheets. The Booklet includes: 26) 9½"x 13" pages with over 70 pictures, illustrations, a material list, building instructions, painting, weathering and UV stabilization, turning gears with an electrical polarity options. Also included are an additional 4 vintage turntable drawings.
Skill levels required to build this Turntable varies. Side girder plates fastened to a block is the easiest, or use styrene shapes riveted to the girder plates for the most skilled finescale modeler, with variations in-between.
CONTENTS
page #3 - Union Pacific, 1911, American Bridge Co., 80΄ Turntable from Yakima, WA., at the California Railroad Museum, Sacramento, CA.
page #4 - Pere Marquette Railway, 1901, Detroit Bridge & Ironworks, 68.8΄ Turntable from Petosky, MI., at Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI.
page #5 - Soo Line, American Bridge Co., 70΄ Turntable from Weyerhaeuser, WI., at Camp 5 Logging Museum, Laona, WI.
pages #6 & 7 - Drawings of Eureka Springs Railroad, 1910, Philadelphia Turntable Co., 74.4΄, from Eureka Springs, AK.
page #8 - Eureka Springs, AK., site map drawing with Philadelphia Turntable Co. Turntable.
page #8 - 9-½΄ narrow gauge Industrial Turntable, at the Rhinelander Logging Museum, Rhinelander, WI.
page #9 - Southern Pacific, 1860, 56΄ “A” Frame Gallows Turntable, at Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, NV.
page #10 - Chicago & North-Western, 1910, American Bridge Co., 80΄ Turntable from Harvard, IL., at the Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL.
page #10 - 1918, C&N-W Right-of-Way drawing of Winegar, Wisc. with a 60΄ Lassig Turntable.
page #11 - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 100΄ Truss-Type Turntable in Bridgeport, NE.
page #12 - Fractions - Decimals - Millimetre Chart.
page #13 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing and Renderings of 30ʺ model Turntable Deck and Pit Drain.
page #14 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing of Top and Side views of 30ʺ model Turntable.
page #15 - 19ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing of Cord full size Template with Angle Bracing Assembly for a 30ʺ model Turntable.
page #16 - 19ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing of full size Templates with Material List for a 30ʺ model Turntable.
page #17 - 19ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing of Angle Bracing, Stiffeners and Gusset full size Templates for a 30ʺ model Turntable.
page #18 - 19ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing of Top & Bottom X-Bracing full scale templates with rivets
page #19 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Renderings of Turntable Trucks and Locking Mechanism.
page #20 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing and Rendering of Gussets and Angle Bracing, plus Rendering of finescale Roller Pedestal.
page #21 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Drawing and Pictures of Gearing and Axel Bearings.
page #22 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Polarity Drawing.
page #23 to 26 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Suggested Rules for Building a 60΄ Steel Turntable
page #27 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Rules for Painting and Rusting a steel Turntable model.
page #28 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ 1:24 (½ʺ) Scale Conversions to Other Popular Scales
page #29 - 9½ʺ x 13ʺ Turntable Modeling References
page #30 - 60΄ Lassig Turntable Overview with Deck, and Truck, plus 30ʺ model Turntable Diagonal Angles and Gussets.
Plan-Sets are sold for the non-commercial use by the purchaser only. A purchaser may build as many Turntables as they desire for their own personal use.
TOOLS TO BUILD THIS TURNTABLE:
● scriber ● clamps ● Xuron #2175 shear flush cutter ● drill bits ●needle files ● hobby knife with extra blades ● pin vice ● razor saw ● General Tools Mfg. Co. #616 (10ths, 100ths) ruler ● sand paper ● straight edge ● tweezers
Plans were designed and drawn in CAD with 3-D renderings and booklet are printed in color with a professional graphic printer. Plans are fully dimensioned for scale modeling as listed above. These well designed CAD drawings can be increased and reduced in size legibly with a good copy machine,as compared to blue print drawings with, good line quality.
CAD printed drawings have the advantage over traditional blueprints because of the fact that details are more easily identified when printed in different line weight colors and since there is no confusing hand lettering.Our plans are designed to be easily understood by the novice.
Drawings and Booklet pages are printed on heavy 70 lb acid-free/ECF-Freepaper (complying with sustainable Forest Management procedures).
The present Vilas County Lumber Co. (VCLCo) also has some 90 other Plan-Sets such as bridges,single stall engine house, several depots, derricks, various factories, grain elevators, barges and car floats, sheds, Sawmill, Shingle Mill, a tunnel portal and other lumber company complex buildings.
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$2.05 additional, USPS Insurance USA shipments
$10* additional 1st Class Mail to Canada
$22* additional, international 1st Class Mail.
$46.50* additional, worldwide Priority shipping and insurance.
* We only charge actual costs for international and Canadian shipments. Refunds will be issued for any difference.
No returns accepted.