My OO Scale Model Train set Build.

**Homestar** · 19th November 2019, 03:21 PM

Well the turntable showed up - 5 days from England over a weekend - not too shabby, but geez you pay for it. Cleared customs without further payment or GST so pretty happy about that. 👍

The unit looks great and works flawlessly. Alister from ADM Turntables has truly excelled here and bought an item to market that is unmatched. The sound from the locos doesn’t even cut out when the turntable does a 180 which is quite impressive as the polarity of the track is switched during the turn. This is the only one I’ve ever seen that can do this. To say I’m happy is an understatement and the eye watering cost is quickly being forgotten.

This is what I got -

What I ordered - a weathered and brick lined turntable, with the mounting kit - which makes mounting it dead flat and leveling it so all tracks meet perfectly a snap - that’s also very well thought out.

00641B93-0955-46C1-AD2C-74C9B99EC415 by Gavin Gregory, on Flickr

A shot or two of the inner workings - stepper motor and drive gears, control board and encoder.

262949B8-F2A9-4DB2-914D-14A26A40A2BE by Gavin Gregory, on Flickr

4F063B2B-7FCD-4334-8973-790973247726 by Gavin Gregory, on Flickr

Controller is also of very high quality

C5858078-4717-444C-9CEA-3C79C1633705 by Gavin Gregory, on Flickr

BBF0007F-EF96-4364-84D1-1ACC5D574F07 by Gavin Gregory, on Flickr

Just have to mount it all on the baseboard now and I’ll shoot a video of it in use. 👍

**4bee** · 19th November 2019, 04:06 PM

What is it about model Railways where grown men can be brought to tears & possibly wet themselves with excitement?

Does it do Stir Fries as well?

Looks a nice piece of engineered kit & I look forward to the Vid.

**drivesafe** · 19th November 2019, 05:00 PM

Homestar, you have nothin better to do so get your finger out, get it working and get the video up. NOW

**Pickles2** · 19th November 2019, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by mick88

Did you go to the Steamtown Museum there John?
It is well worth a visit, as is the evening "Light n Sound Show" that they put on.

We were there a few weeks back and absolutely loved it.

Cheers, Mick.

We've been to the Museum, and the Sound 'N Light" Show which you view from a railway carriage,....the whole place is brilliant for steam buffs IMHO. The facility must have been really something in the era of steam.
Pickles.

**grey_ghost** · 19th November 2019, 06:54 PM

That’s dead sexy

**4bee** · 19th November 2019, 07:04 PM

There were a couple of Engine Drivers who lived in our street at Torrensville & we'd chat over the gas meter when I was on the way home from school, as you do.

I got the impression that Peterborough & possibly even Terowie (down the road a bit) were postings that were jealously guarded.
One of them, a Mr Harley drove the huge mainline Expresses ie. 500 Class the biggest Loco that SAR operated. These guys always wore black & most always carried a vented metal box over their shoulder for their away & overnight meals The probably wore black when they went out socially..

South Australian Railways 500 class (steam) - Wikipedia