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Well I've been mucking about with the Atlas turntable lately.  This started the way those things normally do.  Saw one at a low, low bargin price on my way out of the swap meet, and so it came home with me.  After fixing it's contacts and some other problems the old owner forgot to mention, I got to thinking that this would be an easy way to get a turntable up and running until I built the turntable I really wanted.  Certainly would be more realistic for operation than nothing.  Since I model in the pre WWI period, the short length would work ok with my motive power.  Next I discovered some old photos of covered pit turntable in use on the B&O in the late 1800's.  Hmm, perhaps these things were more numerous than I realized. (If I remember right, the prototype for the Atlas table was located in New England...I think on the B&M) .  The neat thing about the photos was that they showed all sorts of spare timbers and other assorted railroad junk piled on the planks covering the pit..just the kind of detailing opportunity dear to the hearts on model rails everywhere.    So now I'm thinking that I'm going to try to repaint , alter and detail the stock atlas table to see if I can get it looking a little more realistic.  Maybe it will work out, and at worse I have a temporary working turntable.  As far as the mechanics go, the Atlas motor drive is a bit noisy.  I'm going to try a new motor cover out of a more sound absorbing material.  A better quaility motor might help too.  My table seems to have a little play in it which means it lines up just a bit differently when operated clockwise from the stops when going counterclock wise.  Don't know if they're all like this, since mine was used.  I'm controling the table with an old train set transformer which allows slow speeds. JBB
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