Help in Drafting!

[Anonymous]

Oh, I get it! I am drawing the whole layout (including the table, tracks, mountains, etc...)

[Anonymous]

Well, I guess the whole table in general! At first, I just wanted the roundhouse/ turntable dimensions, and I'll stick with that! Plus, I am kind of confused on what you're asking!

[Anonymous]

Are you talking about drawing a layout (i.e. all the "model" parts, usually on top of the table) or benchwork (the table itself)?

If you want to design a layout, there is a ton of information on the internet, beginning with the parent site of this forum - trains.com - and Model Railroader. As for dimensions of things like roundhouses and turntables - they were all different sizes. Turntables from ~75 feet to over 130 feet long. Roundhouses had anywhere from two to 20 or more stalls. You can get some basic sizes by looking at the model sizes and converting back to "real" feet. The Walthers catalog on-line (www.walthers.com) often lists the models' basic dimensions in the description.

For more detail, I would suggest looking for Kalmbach (Model Railroader) books such as "Lineside structures you can build" as they have examples of scale drawings.

There are also books and internet sites dedicated to building benchwork - a whole subproject so to speak - for your model railroad. Some of this might make for interesting drafting project(s).

Good luck!

Andrew

[Anonymous]

Hello, everyone at Trains.com! Okay, so I'm 16 and sitting in Drafting class in school*blah*[xx(]! So, anyway I came up with this cool idea of drawing an HO scale railway table, but then I got stumped! I had no clue what kind on dimensions were in an HO table! So, I was wondering if anyone knew some accurate dimensions for an HO roundhouse and/or turntable!
Thanx!