LNER4479 Posted yesterday at 06:38 Author Share Posted yesterday at 06:38 (edited) How will you know what's inside - hang a tag on the push button? He can see .. as observed by me yesterday you will be able to see into the shed The 'table was never covered on the original - quite a few UK roundhouses were like that (think Inverness). I'm actually going to extend (literally!) that principle and cover about two thirds of each road (stall) such that the central (circular) opening is proportionally slightly larger than it should be. Possibly a perspex cover for the centre when not in use? It MIGHT nonetheless be worth having some sort of tag system. We'll see. Edited yesterday at 06:44 by LNER4479 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted yesterday at 08:33 RMweb Premium Share Posted yesterday at 08:33 1 hour ago, LNER4479 said: How will you know what's inside - hang a tag on the push button? He can see .. as observed by me yesterday you will be able to see into the shed The 'table was never covered on the original - quite a few UK roundhouses were like that (think Inverness). I'm actually going to extend (literally!) that principle and cover about two thirds of each road (stall) such that the central (circular) opening is proportionally slightly larger than it should be. Possibly a perspex cover for the centre when not in use? It MIGHT nonetheless be worth having some sort of tag system. We'll see. With DC control you don't really need to know what is on each road although it is a bit of a problem with my Brunswick shed - nearly all GC locos look the same when viewed from above. We need the tag system on our DCC operated Carlisle because you do need to know the loco number. With reference to an earlier query, the odd shaped building at Upperby was the sand drier, seen very frequently in photographs because this is where the (usually a clean Duchess) the standby loco was parked. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1466 Posted yesterday at 08:52 Share Posted yesterday at 08:52 19 minutes ago, Michael Edge said: With DC control you don't really need to know what is on each road although it is a bit of a problem with my Brunswick shed - nearly all GC locos look the same when viewed from above. We need the tag system on our DCC operated Carlisle because you do need to know the loco number. With reference to an earlier query, the odd shaped building at Upperby was the sand drier, seen very frequently in photographs because this is where the (usually a clean Duchess) the standby loco was parked. Rule 55? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted yesterday at 12:12 RMweb Premium Share Posted yesterday at 12:12 ? What's rule 55 got to do with this? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1466 Posted yesterday at 13:13 Share Posted yesterday at 13:13 (edited) Sorry to be obtuse . I thought there was a connection between tagging a section switch and placing a collar on a signal lever . If the collar/tag were to be colour coded or numbered it would serve to remind that a particular engine was on on shed Edited yesterday at 13:21 by 1466 Omitted be 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Clearwater Posted 18 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 18 hours ago 14 hours ago, LNER4479 said: How will you know what's inside - hang a tag on the push button? He can see .. as observed by me yesterday you will be able to see into the shed The 'table was never covered on the original - quite a few UK roundhouses were like that (think Inverness). I'm actually going to extend (literally!) that principle and cover about two thirds of each road (stall) such that the central (circular) opening is proportionally slightly larger than it should be. Possibly a perspex cover for the centre when not in use? It MIGHT nonetheless be worth having some sort of tag system. We'll see. I was wondering whether in the build phase it’d be worth including micro cameras to be able to see inside? As a general rule (and I know there are some exceptions like the inventive 2mm fine scale version of York) , I think it’s a pity that modellers build amazing structures, particularly stations, that you can’t see inside. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted 17 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 17 hours ago 14 hours ago, LNER4479 said: The 'table was never covered on the original - quite a few UK roundhouses were like that (think Inverness). I'm actually going to extend (literally!) that principle and cover about two thirds of each road (stall) Like this one? Taken from a former railway building. (I’ve been overseas recently.) Paul. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWsTrains Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago I can go one better! Likewise the superb double roundhouses at the Berlin Technology Museum, Google maps ref here. https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/Anhalter+Bahnhof,+10963+Berlin,+Germany/German+Technology+Museum+Berlin,+Trebbiner+Straße,+Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg,+Germany/@52.4976018,13.3734742,1079m/data=!3m2!1e3!5s0x47a8503247467569:0xfffc8c8198ecdd93!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a851cd688df0fb:0xad3dd81d184f738a!2m2!1d13.3818463!2d52.5045193!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a85032346a25bb:0x4435919b99126a78!2m2!1d13.3778846!2d52.4986982!3e3!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D well worth the visit, on the site of the former Anhalter Güterbahnhof yards, some 900m from the still standing massive Anhalter main station portal. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
25kV Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago 32 minutes ago, 5BarVT said: Like this one? Taken from a former railway building. (I’ve been overseas recently.) Paul. Canada digression - I passed by that roundhouse in 1998, long before it became the railway museum - it had been partly demolished to allow for some underground construction or other, and was later rebuilt (and is now a brewery I think)! Which by most standards is a fairly remarkable turn of events. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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