Here is mine.... A single stall ! LOL. It was a 3 stall but I cut it down to fit on the old layout. Its now being used as a car shop/paint shop/steamer repair shop/and whatever the mechanics dont wanna work on in the new engine shop....building !
First 12 stalls coming along. One problem I have found when combining kits, each kit comes with 5 trusses, so you'll end up a truss short. I have been inside of a real 1/2 circle Evanston Wyoming's 28 stall roundhouse, and they have brick fire wall every 7 stalls. So I'll be reworking some of the end walls to become a fire wall, and I'll put then every 6 stalls. If you leave off a stall that would work too, or buy an extra kit just for parts. Due to some warpage, I need to add weight on the top of the trusses while the glue dries, also to the floor sections, so I'm building the floor in small sections be for combining them into bigger setction, I'm also thinking about building the 36 stalls in 12 stall sections that can be set next to each other on the layout to get the bigger round house but with smaller sections for maintenance later and ease of building now. One other thing, when combineing Heljan & Walthers kits, the floor and trusses are cast in differant colors. Gray parts in the Walthers kit are Black in the Heljan kit, and the windows are green in the walthers kit but black in the Heljan kit. so you'll need to paint parts all the same color, if your like me, and don't really care because the back store will be the roundhouse sections was built at differant times.
:startled: I am amazed at the detail and spent a good hour browsing the railimages album, fantastic layout! Trying to duplicate a similar setting so thank you for the inspiration. True modeling skill! Roundhouses... chalk one up for the smaller footprint of N scale. These look great! Sadly I do not have one to contribute, my layout will be lucky to get a single stall engine house.
So today I got 2 of the four kits that I had won on ebay, and I can see I'll be needing one more kits for parts, I have found some bad wall sections and I'm betting Heljan won't be sending me any replacements. Any way I'm still sticking to the plane of installing a brick wall every 6 stalls, been sizing up the turn table too, and I got to thinking, {it made my head hurt} coould I use a Kato bridge for turn table. they are just over 130 scale feet, and I'm thinking I can make my onw pit for it, so I'll be giving that a try. The building is coming along nicely, I'm now building from each end, I'll put the Heljan kits on the far end and the Walthers kits on the close end,
I've noticed that not all, but most of the photos have just a roundhouse and none of the supporting structures that are so neat to model in the steam era. A boiler house to provide steam to be piped in to the locos to help fire up the engines; A forge to fashion or repairmetal parts;
How about a office added to the side or back for the foreman? The office on the back of the roundhouse and the wheel shop to the right and the back- shop in the back for more extensive repairs Ash pits and hoist;
The back-shop. Ihave added a lot more detail since this photo was taken; Sanding facilities; The coaling and water towers are behind the sanding facilities.
Don't recog it, but damn if that doesn't look like a catalog pic! Nice and clean property there. Very cool!
Here's mine after removing the old Heljan TT and installing the new Walthers. Here's just a corner of the nearby backshop which has an old GP9 being lifted by a crane inside and a flashing welder. Thought I had more pics but this is all I could find.
George, you call THAT a roundhouse?! More like a sliverhouse or a wedgehouse!... Now Jolly, you'll have what I call a roundhouse! I have an old Heljan six stall RH I don't need...PM me if interested. John, nice interiors! Regards, Otto K.
True....but it WAS a 3 stall roundhouse...at one time...lol. Like Boxcab says...good place to hide out and play some poker ;-) ** btw...read your post real quick and thought that said "wedgiehouse'...ROFLMAO !!!
Today I got the last 2 kits, so now I have 1 older Heljan, 1 newer Heljan, 2 old Walthers, and 2 new Walthers kits, I'll still need to find one for parts. The pics below show the differances in the kits, and it's all about the color the parts are cast in. one thing for sure, I'll be needing to pant those greeen roof sections, so I'll do them all, I'm thinking a flat gray. I'll also be looking at painting the window frames all the same as well.
