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I have two, both from Diamond Scale company - they're listed in Walthers. It's a pretty good brand, and you can get their drive and indexing kit, along with panel faceplates. They use a cast plaster pit, mounted on a solid board, with all holes predrilled for you. You paint the pit, add the ring rail (provided), buid up the bridge - pretty basic: wood structure, plastic girder side cover plates, wood ties, and your rail. They also provide the arch- metal castings you can solder together. The drive and indexing go underneath the layout. You have to be careful about the fit of the bridge to the drive 'spline' piece- don't want a lot of slop there. And, the indexing uses spring contacts mounter underneath the layout- make sure they're far enough out from the center to give you good resolution. I found it easier to fix my track alignment using one track to the pit, and get the rails on the bridge right, first - then line up to the rest of the tracks. It involved some work - definitely not shake-the-box - but it's an impressive thing, and works quite well. If you really wanted to go all-out, I'd buy their kit for the turntable, and instead of their drive, buy one of the servo drive kits advertised in MR.
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