The model 20007 Turntable Display Stand was introduced in 2000 as our first structure built in a 1:20.3 scale. It originally was not designed as a fully functional turntable, but rather simply the deck of a turntable. With the many fine 1:20.3 locomotives out there today, we felt that it was a shame for those locomotives to only be displayed during garden railway operation, with the rest of their time sitting on some shelf. Thus, the Turntable Display Stand was designed to allow those locomotives to be proudly displayed all the time on a mantle or an office display, instead of just sitting on a piece of track. Therefore, we designed a structure that was as dramatic and nicely detailed as those locomotives that might rest upon it. For the prototype we again turned to the Pacific Coast Railway. They had a striking 60 foot gallows turntable that was used at San Luis Obispo. This turntable is one of the largest that you will find made today, and can hold the K’s built by Accucraft. With a little work on behalf of the owner, one can convert the display stand to a fully working turntable for outdoor use!  Or, you can still just use it as a display stand!

   Our customers told us that they would like a functioning armstrong turntable that they did not have to build the center spider bearing.  Therefore, we designed a working spider bearing (model 20048) and modified the existing turntable deck (became model 20007B) to include the outside end rollers that ride on the circular rail in the bottom of the pit.  The resulting combinations makes a narrow gauge armstrong turntable possible that requires the owner to only build the pit for it to set in!