Tonights project, I will post when I have done a few more tweaks sto this can be used as a track object to drive on. First one is in place at Hill Village for a proposed round house. the second is just put down so that you can see it in a setting with other objects.
Excellent! Is this a precedent; any one know of another BVE route with a turntable or roundhouse?
If someone could now just figure out how to add animation so the turntable rotates then a route could start in prototypical fashion,
with a crew receiving orders,
the steam engine exiting a roundhouse stall to be turned on the table to a water & coal service track,
before coupling to an assigned train.
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Well I do not know about animating the turntable, but it is a driveable tradck, so you could drive from the roundhouse (see WIP below) through the turntable to coal and water service. I know your steamers have the water fill ability with the stand pipe. Perhaps a water tower for this set is in order. In BVE 4 you can go backwards a ways, so you could fake backing to couple, as long as you did not go past the dirvering track.
This is a WIP for 2 stalls of a round house. There is a German loco in the stall to check scale. You would add several of these together to make a full roundhouse. Each module is less than 25 meters long and since the #1 stall is in the same place as a track, you could easily make it a driveable piece. Please note the shadow in the door. From inside, you do not see this, just likelooking out into the world. May be ready this weekend, if nothing else happens.
The round house module is done. Here are 4 of them together to produce an 8 stall roundhouse. The HST locomotive is backed in to stall 1 for work and when you approach the round house from the back, you can see it through the windows. Track one from and to the round house is drivable so perhaps I can make a short route that will do some of what BVECOLORADO mentioned. Just need a water tower and coal tower. FYI for Route builder users, this is a route builder creation and I will export it as region so that you can import the whole setup to your route. For hand builders, I will post a short route so that you can see the code for placing the tracks and modules.
There is still some work to do setting up the dummy tracks, but it is moving along.
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