Train Show Find - Walthers Transfer Table

[Railphotog]

I attended a train show about a hundred miles from here this past Saturday along with three friends.  I was quite surprised to see on a fellow's sales table a complete in the box Walthers Transfer Table - and the Extension Kit too.   So I bought them both!  Just finished checking out the transfer table box, which had been opened.  Looks like everything is there.   The extension kit was still shrink wrapped, so I won't open it.  I don't have any use for the kits, so eBay here I come!  Sort of a bargain that I couldn't pass up.   Now to find a box to put them both in.

Didn't buy much else, mostly a Kibri bulldozer kit ($10.00) and a few other small things.

 

 

[dknelson]

Didn't Lionel have one, too,  back in the day? 

I think, but am not positive, that the transfer table is still in place in the former WC (now CN) shops in Fond du Lac Wisconsin.  The CN discourages efforts to look at their property but during WC days they would host tours.  The transfer table, roundhouse, and turntable (not to mention the classic old passenger cars) were like a trip back in time.  A transfer table actually saved space and elaborate trackwork between shops.

An HO layout that could really do justice to shops that had a transfer table would be quite a layout. 

Dave Nelson

[GAPPLEG]

Didn't Lionel have one, too,  back in the day? 

I think, but am not positive, that the transfer table is still in place in the former WC (now CN) shops in Fond du Lac Wisconsin.  The CN discourages efforts to look at their property but during WC days they would host tours.  The transfer table, roundhouse, and turntable (not to mention the classic old passenger cars) were like a trip back in time.  A transfer table actually saved space and elaborate trackwork between shops.

An HO layout that could really do justice to shops that had a transfer table would be quite a layout. 

Dave Nelson

Although my layout doesn't do it justice , Here is an old Walthers Transfer table at my SP shops. Had to make mod's to the pickups to make it reliable , it is now.  Powered with an old MRC power supply for speed control.