Anyone care to take a stab at modeling this engine facility in Prague?
How do they access the two arcs of circular track in what looks to be the old round house area
I think we need an overhead photo as the tracks around the two 1\2 roundhouses are a tad confusing
Stan
Click the square box in the lower left side. It will change to satellite view and reveal the turntables and roundhouses.
Hamburg had one too (demolished 1982] with even less space.
Wow, overlapping turntables. Amazing.
Yeah, I was thinking someone had a Spirograph. They call this a Doppeldrehscheibe. Heres what I found.
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No umlauts were used in creating the name!
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The two adjacent standard turntables whose pits are laid out so that the outer running rings overlap, giving more radial tracks for storing/servicing locomotives in a limited space, but creates a danger zone where the two bridges cross. Wikipedia
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Dimensions & layout (Altona specifics): the Altona pair used 23 m turntable bridges with the two centres only about 17.60 m apart (i.e. they interlocked). That small centre distance is exactly why the bridges overlap and why careful coordination was required. eepshopping.de+1
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My new track plan , might need a powerball win to buy the switches , it might work around my tree in front yard!
Bill;
What would worry me (moot point, of course) is that instead of the clash of Titians, we could have the clash of turntables!
Best, David Meashey
Proves the old model railroader adage, “there is a prototype for everything”.