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**masonamerican** · 11-14-2021, 04:25 PM

Thanks Mike
I have continued on the boiler house or shed as it is more appropriate to call it. I have made a coal bin for it and the roof rafters are in place.
As the line shaft protrudes through the Roundhouse wall a pulley and belt will take the power from the steam engine to the machinery inside. It will be fiddly to mount the belt as I need to do it with the shed and wall attached to the Roundhouse.

To be continued..

Håkan

**railman28** · 11-14-2021, 04:42 PM

Looking Good Håkan

**CNE1899** · 11-23-2021, 07:05 AM

Hakan,
The boiler shed adds another level of fine detail!

Scott

**Michael_Hohn** · 11-23-2021, 11:56 AM

Looks very realistic, Håkan.

**Tyson Rayles** · 11-23-2021, 12:43 PM

**Carl_B** · 11-27-2021, 06:54 AM

Looks good Håkan.

**masonamerican** · 12-01-2021, 04:05 PM

Thanks Guys! Much appreciated! RL has come in the way the last week but hope to be more online more this weekend.

Håkan

**masonamerican** · 12-24-2021, 03:08 AM

Merry Christmas to All!

My best wishes to you and your family!
Times has been busy at work and at home but now it is finally Xmas holiday.
I send you a greeting with this HO Nativity scene that I have worked on the last weeks and is a Christmas gift for my wife.

All the best
Håkan

You will see more of me on the RLF now when things are calmer

**OK_Hogger** · 12-24-2021, 03:33 PM

Thank you Håkan, and for you I pray the very best Christmas time you've ever had as a family!

(Nice work on the Nativity scene and the photograph!)

Andre

**Michael_Hohn** · 12-24-2021, 05:19 PM

Merry Christmas, Håkan, to you and all your family.

Mike

**Pennman** · 12-24-2021, 05:27 PM

Håkan, that is a very nice gift to your wife.
Merry Christmas to you, and your wife and family.

Rich

**George_D** · 12-24-2021, 09:50 PM

Very nice Nativity scene. Merry Christmas, Håkan.

George

**CNE1899** · 12-26-2021, 12:08 PM

Hakan,

Beautiful nativity scene! I hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Scott

**masonamerican** · 12-28-2021, 02:15 PM

Thanks guys much appreciated! I'm happy you liked it!

**masonamerican** · 01-08-2022, 05:21 PM

Hi Guys
I hope the holidays has been good!

There has been some progress on the Roundhouse and I have started to place it in on the layout. Thats when I realised that I have made a mistake at the drawing board

I draw the Roundhouse to have straight track from the turntable but somewhere along the line I got the angles somewhat wrong and now when placing it as I planned all the tracks need to curve before they reach the turntable. My question is if this is prototypical and if it was used in real life?
I can move the Roundhouse further away from turntable but then it will be awfully close to the background and track.
Here are some photos.
These first three shows the Roundhouse placed as originally intended but with curved approach tracks

These three shows it moved farther away from the turntable with straight approach tracks.

What do you think?

Håkan

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