Re: [CBQ] Re: A late Q "gallows" turntable

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Randy
My file is all tabulated data.  Where, who built when or came from where with 
dates.  Often they were recycled.
I know what you mean by Lassig uses I think there may still be a Bld Plate on 
the Indian Creek bridge in the Hill Yard at Aurora.  Or use to be anyway just 
never got to it to shot it.
Try SMU sometimes it is a pain but well worth it.  I just to volunteer there 
till other things came up.  Looks like I will be at the Southwest O Scale meet 
in Ft. Worth in Oct
Steve in SC
 


On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 10:02 PM, Randy Gordon-Gilmore 
<randy@prototrains.com> wrote:
 
  
At 09:59 PM 5/6/2014, Steve wrote:

>That is the joy of research.  Often it opens up more questions
>then you get answers for.

This started out as wanting to build a model railroad... That will 
come eventually, but the research/learning has taken on a life of its 
own.  To coin a phrase, "I'm loving it".

>...I have a couple different Turntable booklets put out by the
>Railroad. But I have never seen a Lines West.

Were Lines East and Lines West that different from a permanent way 
standpoint?  I've even been looking at some Northern Pacific standard 
drawings that have been posted, on the theory that there must have 
been some commonality since after 190? NP, GN and the Q were under 
common ownership.

Do your turntable booklets have drawings, or are they just tabulated 
data?

I had thought that the Q would favor Lassig (later American Bridge) 
for turntables because they sure used them for bridges, but the 
surviving turntable in Burwell NE doesn't look anything like a 
Lassig.  I'm trying to find someone locally (there) to take detailed 
photos, including determining if there is a builder's plate, 
otherwise it's an 11+ hour drive each way...

>And do not recall running into anything in the SMU library on
>turntables.

Now that I only live 30 +/- miles from SMU, I really should attempt 
to make contact with them one of these days...

Randy
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