Re: n scale transfer table

The Hong Kong arrangement is a combined traverser (transfer table) and
turntable, its main point of interest is that it is indoors. Traversers as
such were common at tram (street car) depots, out in the open.
Regards,
Bill.

"Charles Krug" <cdkrug@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 2006-01-14, Peter W. <peteski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Didn't Fleischmann offer one in N scale also? How about Arnold? I
> > know both made turntables but I'm not 100% sure about transfer tables.
> > Maybe Minitrix?
> >
> > I'm almost sure that I saw one that was a transfer table which also
> > rotated (like a turntable). I don' t think that one was BRAWA.
> >
>
> Isn't a transfer table just a spare loco mechanism set into a girder
> bridge?
>
> Seems to me that's how the prototype would go about making one--electric
> nowadays, but a steam goat a hundred years ago.
>
> Indexing would be a challenge, but probably not moreso than with a
> turntable.
>


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