Re: Durango Turntable

Tomstp Wrote:
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> In the late 1970's I spent the night and early
> morning with the night hostler. This included him
> getting the 473 out of the roundhouse and put on
> the turntable. As he started spinning the table
> it soon stopped. The table was out of balance and
> at a spot on the round would lose contact with the
> gears. He wound up having to use a front end
> loader to line it up. Once he got the engine on
> the table he could use the engine to balance the
> weight where the table would work.


Hostler must have been new, any thinking Driver would have re-positioned the Loco on the table.