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Brad:  Up till very recently (I haven't been there lately, but I imagine its stil in use) the Indiana Harbor Belt was using not only a turntable, but also a genuine roundhouse at one of its Chicago area yards to not only turn, but also to house in classic fashion some of its vast fleet of SW type engines.  The IHB never used steam motive power much bigger than NYC's later classes of 2-8-2s, so the table and roundhouse are not large by late steam power standards.  Anyway, it's a perfect protoype example for a diesel period guy who wants a turntable and roundhouse.  I'm probably not a good example, but I've got plans to eventually have two turntables on my 5x9. The lower level one is already installed.  I'm using an Atlas, but have plans to eventually change it out.  The other turntable will go on the rear upper level yard.  I ran down an old Cliff Line gallows table, which I'm planning on using there.  Since I model old time, these small tables work just fine for my dinky motive power.  Layout design is and out and back with provision for continous running.  Since I have to turn at the end of each run, the table is needed, and takes up a lot less space than a loop or wye, plus provides at least some  storage space for my rapidly multiplying amount of motive power.JBB
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