Re: SP 18 arrives in Carson city.

Dan Robirds Wrote:
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> As I recall, they borrowed parts off the Laws
> turntable for casting patterns to build it. I
> don't know if it's an exact copy, but the Laws
> turntable was involved in the design of the Carson
> turntable.

Dan,
The turntable at Carson City is built/copied from SP drawings. The patterns used for castings for the NSRM table were also used for the replica at OERM/SCRM at Perris, CA.

Paul Diegas who is a civil engineer and long-time OERM/SCRM member has told of crawling around the Laws turntable and realizing that some of the castings (like the "spider" of the center pivot) in the Laws turntable do not match the SP drawings -- his thinking being that these parts were reused from an older turntable at some location.

Brian Norden