I ask this periodically but it's been on my mind today: does anyone have a high quality collection of the old Nickelodeon show Roundhouse? The set that I have has decent enough video quality but excruciatingly bad audio (muffled and heavy hiss). #Nickelodeon#Roundhouse#LostMedia
Even today, locomotives want a small amount of dry sand for traction. All my resources are tacit about where they kept engine sand in Pembroke in 1905. There is also zero information about the purpose of the third stall in the roundhouse.
For years, I’ve thought there was probably a pile of sand somewhere and a small bunker inside the roundhouse where it would dry out, and probably be sifted for weeds. Then, while the roundhouse was off getting a new floor, and I was considering the location of the bunker, I noticed there is a large space between the second stall and the mysterious third stall. Putting zero and zero together, I reasoned that perhaps one of the uses of the third stall was to unload sand. I don’t imagine there would have been more than a few carloads of sand per year, but there was certainly room.
The roundhouse floor has now sprouted a lumpy styrofoam rectangle, with a wooden bunker around it. This provides a reason to very occasionally push a gondola into the roundhouse, and also resolves the mystery of engine sand.
Now that we have a walkable (if not finished) floor, it's really possible to appreciate the #roundhouse as a space. We've just enjoyed our first meal in this space.
The #roundhouse in snow for the first time ever. The outside temperature is now just above freezing, and what's falling now is no longer fluffy, but it's still just about snow. The southern and western horizons are very dark and threatening.
@simon_brooke looking good! Have you managed to cut enough boards for the flooring? Looks like it is going to be an 'interesting' job flooring across the those angled joists.
#roundhouse we've been making surprisingly fast progress with secondary joists. One consequence of this is that we've both got much better at cutting acute angled saw cuts!
@BigD@pthane I'm in southern Scotland. Here we call short braces between studs "noggins" (although I suspect that's not a traditional word in these parts), but exactly similar braces between joists "dwangs".
I imagine there's a fair bit of regional variation about this; but also, where Scots immigrants outnumber English, at least among carpenters, I'd expect the Scots word to be adopted.
@simon_brooke@pthane You're a bit far away for a visit. Yes, your termination is the same as these parts. Alot of the NZ South island was settled by Scots.
I have built a small half round structure only to test the concept. Garden shed size. My concept uses a post and rail structure to form portals.
I don't have a use for a full sized structure as I'd build one.
Only got some concept drawings that I've bounced around on a computer 😄
Keep up the good work
Cutting floorboards for the #roundhouse, and I've just cut five square metres of (by our standards) really nice quality flooring from a single log. Small wins!