Re: SV Turntable

I do not want to throw cold water on restoring turntables , but my experience with them is they are sensitive equipment and often as not do not work well .The table at Durango had a list of problems .For a while the table would derail . Also would not turn without help from a tractor . Eventually the circle rail was levelled up and the table worked much better . It might be noted that lots of roads got rid of them at the end of steam , opting for a run-through engine house where repairs were preformed , and often eliminating the engine house altogether , opting for a service track . One engine house that still is used long after the turntable disappeared is the C&S house at Leadville .A Gp-9 took about as much space as a C&S narrow-gauge engine . Another example is the house at Chama .The two remaining tracks are now used only for storage ,as the run-through house built in the 1970s is more efficient . One big problem with turntables is they make moving dead engines difficult .The Durango roundhouse crews would use a mobile crane to move the equipment .