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I am looking for a Roundhouse that can handle the length of a 2-8-8-2 or a 4-8-8-4 Steam locomotives with tenders in Nscale, and what kits offer the capability of making a 10 plus locomotive stall roundhouse that can be added onto for a growing stable of locomotives. All of the locomotives will be steam, and in nscale.
I hope it won't just be my ignorance showing, but I don't believe you'll find one commercially. In know that in the popular HO world I have yet to see one that will house even a NYC J1d Hudson in any of the bays. The tender sticks out by about 10 scale feet.
Unless I am just not sufficiently informed, I would expect you'll have to find plans and build your own from scratch.
I hope you get more replies. Mine may not turn out to be very helpful.
All hope is not lost! Walthers has a roundhouse with add on stalls available at http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3260. It will hold 145 scale foot locomotives. I think that's pretty close to the length of many of the medium size articulateds. You're not going to fit a Big Boy in but it might work for a lot of other fairly large locomotives.
Hey guys, I wanna thank you for your prompt responses, and I will do some research on how many scale feet I can get into the roundhouse, and if there is a way to make an articulated or big boy in there I will certainly let you know. Thanks
All hope is not lost! Walthers has a roundhouse with add on stalls available at http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3260. It will hold 145 scale foot locomotives. I think that's pretty close to the length of many of the medium size articulateds. You're not going to fit a Big Boy in but it might work for a lot of other fairly large locomotives.
I looked up some of the locomotive stats and all of the locomotives I will be using will fit in the roundhouse. Thanks for your reply it was greatly appreciated.
