HO roundhouse

[jayo]

I really like the idea of the Tidmouth Turntable!  I hope to get it when I can, as I can really use it, not necessarily for the Thomas engines.

So what I'm asking is for a US steam railroad style turntable and sheds for EZ track!   

[ABC]

Bachmann just released a North American style 87.5ft turntable. Atlas and Walthers make roundhouses among others.

[jward]

i doubt that you'd be able to use the atlas roundhouse with the bachmann turntable.
looking at the bachmann turntable, it appears that there are spaces for 18 radial tracks, plus 2 spots taken up by the shed housing the motor. this works out to a spacing of 20 degrees between tracks. the atlas turntable has 21 positions for radial tracks, plus 3 taken up by the motor. this works out to a 15 degree spacing. the atlas roundhouse is designed for ise with the atlas turntable's 15 degree spacing.

i am not sure about the walthers roundhouse.

[ABC]

Walthers is 10 degrees, also there is Helijan, Kibri, Faller, Noch, Scale Structures, Vollmer is 15 degrees and come as 3 or 6 stall, $165 or $270. I know for sure the Vollmer roundhouses would work, but you can check on the Heljian, Kibri, Scale structures, and the others to see how many degrees they are...

[Doneldon]

jayo-

I put the new (15^o) Atlas turntable (about 9 inches or 67 scale feet long) on my grandson's small layout and it mates up perfectly with, I'm pretty sure, a Walthers roundhouse.
                                                                                          -- D

[ABC]

On the walthers website it says that the one type is 10 degrees and does not mention the other ones degrees.

[jward]

the roundhouse with 10 degree stalls could be made to work with a 20 degree turntable, but i doubt one with 15 degree stalls would.

in all reality, looking at the photos, the tidmouth sheds roundhouse doesn't look bad. and it's designed to work with a 20 degree turntable.