Sheepscot Turntable - Official Work Thread

[Dave Crow]

Will more of the existing drainage ditch along Track 7 get filled in, or will you construct a retaining wall and place fill to support Track 7 where it has been shifted westward?

I guess the rear side of the outer ring wall did not need bituminous coating before backfill to reduce the water seeping through the concrete?

Looks great!  I look forward to seeing it in person at FWW.

Dave Crow

[Dwight Winkley]

Hi Dave, if you go back to page 18, Scholl down to photo 6 and 7 you can see  were the old drain from the shop has been extended into the drain pipes from the turntable pit. The old drain ditch near the shop was filled in and track 7 moved over. No retaining wall needed.
dwight

[Dave Crow]

Hi Dwight, looking at the photos showing the shift of Track 7 so that it lines up with the turntable, it looks like the edge of some of the ties (that Jeff shifted westward) are close to the edge of the embankment.  I like the drain pipes to channel the shop roof run-off into the ditch; I'm sure it will help keep the ground drier.

I also noticed the nice drain pipe under the future roundhouse leads, up towards the Percival house.  The culvert pipe ends in a smallish opening, just right for someone to fall into; will the pipe be extended under the driveway, or will there be a grating or protective fence around the opening?

Good luck next week with the convention attendees!

Dave Crow

[Chuck Watford]

Very impressive work in a relatively short time. Hope the turntable goes as fast! Any plans you can share about how the roundhouse will look?

[Ed Lecuyer]

The roundhouse will be a replica of the 3-stall building that existed on the original WW&F at Wiscasset. The only difference is that the run through track in Wiscasset was through the left stall, whereas ours will be through the right stall.

[Mike Fox]

Dave,
Pipe will be graded to and dressed up for now. It was left that way to be extended if a landscaping idea we tossed around this week gets approved by the board.

[Chuck Watford]

Is this the building?

[Ed Lecuyer]

Yep. That's the one.

[Chuck Watford]

Great! Looks like a vacation trip to Maine is in the future!

[Philip Marshall]

Did the Wiscasset roundhouse not have doors, or did the doors just swing inward? This part of the design has always puzzled me. Will our roundhouse not have doors either?

[Jason M Lamontagne]

It had inward swinging doors; you can see the right door of the stall closest to us in the photo.

Many Maine shop buildings had inward swinging doors so you didn't have to shovel snow to open the door. 

Jason

[Philip Marshall]

Thanks, Jason. That makes sense

[Dwight Winkley]

Dave Crow, Just returned from the museum, right now it looks like we do need to build a retaining wall.
dwight

[Joe Fox]

The roundhouse in North Conway also had inward doors originally, however in recent years they were modified to swing out to allow longer house tracks inside.

Not only are inward doors good for not shoveling snow, but this also allows the doors to be open and not foul any track. On more than one occasion I can think of a few outward swinging doors that got demolished while fouling an adjacent track, and in one case knocked the wall off the support column between the two tracks. In the summer time all the doors are open while the engines are steaming or banked inside to allow air conditioning.

[Paul Uhland]

An extensive (207 total) photo series by Brendan Barry  detailing  WW&F turntable project progress, mid-July to the present, has been posted at the Narrow Gauge Discussion Forum, including a few shots not posted at WW&F.
Job got overwhelming praise.