Here are the basics of that roundhouse from the photo/ litho:

- Half circle roundhouse
- Open over turntable- Roof only over stalls
- Low Roof
- About one city block wide side to side
- My guess is 10 to 14 stalls

My guess would be brick with wood doors
Interior framing would most likely have been wood.

The only surviving Port Huron & Lake Michigan Bldg (a paint shop from the car shop complex) is constructed of brick with humungous wood beams. It was probably built a good five to eight years later than the roundhouse, though.

T.J.


Port Huron, Michigan
tjgaffney@phmuseum.org

Since my above message somehow got off the thread, this was in response to Erik Ledbetter's question about getting a description of the 1850's Port Huron & Lake Michigan (forerunner to Grand Trunk) roundhouse. Sorry for any confusion.


Port Huron Museum
tjgaffney@phmuseum.org