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Converting Walthers N Scale Motorized 130 foot Turntable to HO scale 70 Foot Turntable
I acquired a Walthers N Scale Motorized 130 foot Turntable on a hobby shop closing special with the intention of converting it to a 70 foot HO turntable which I need for my Port Costa roundhouse scene. I just measured it and it is only 69 scale HO feet but that will do for the wheelbase of the HO SP consolidations and moguls which will use the turntable. The prototype pit for the Port Costa turntable was quite shallow and the plastic pit will work OK.
What sorts of motive power would short-line (class 3) railroads be buying from the mid 40's to mid 50's and from where?
I am thinking of modeling a Class 3 railroad during the mid 40's-mid 50's, and I was wondering where they would get their motive power. The railroad is set in Colorado (with a potential partner-railroad extending the network down to Arizona via trackage rights) and I was wondering where it would get it's equipment. I know that later Class 3 railroads got their locomotives almost exclusively second-hand, but I want to model steam AND first generation diesel on this short-line railroad, and since the earliest first generation diesels (excluding early yard switchers of
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