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Author:  bobyar2001 [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Wabasha, Minnesota roundhouse question

May still be standing. Anyone been there to see it? Ex-Milwaukee Road.

http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=90

Author:  bobyar2001 [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Other Milwaukee roundhouses possibly existing

We know of the one in Sioux City being restored, but some others possibly extant listed:

Sioux City:
http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=64

Miles City, MT (the former Miles City 0-4-0T shop switcher is at Sidney, MT)
http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=100
http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=369
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00004974+OP-4974

Spirit Lake, Iowa:
http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=81

Yankton, SD:
http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=17

Nahant, Iowa:
http://www.mrha.com/places.cfm?pp=557

Anyone know more about whether any of these still exist?

Author:  Ron Goldfeder [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Milwaukee roundhouses possibly existing

Would anyone know the length of the turntable at the Sioux City MILW roundhouse? This group's web site doesn't mention it and I have never gotten an answer from them when I ask.

Author:  Les Beckman [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Milwaukee roundhouses possibly existing

The MRHA note on the Sioux City, Iowa roundhouse says that the facility includes other buildings including the only wooden sand tower known to still exist. Is this true?

Les

Author:  Dave [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Other Milwaukee roundhouses possibly existing

I seem to recall a very lengthy and detailed presentation at a TRAIN convention show and tell session by a representative of CATS who explored the repairs made by the Friends to a wooden sand house and tower there. The history of each individual board, including the botanical gentic code of the tree it was cut from, nail, and hammer that drove one down to spectrographic analysis of mineral content, was completely exhausted in the talk.

I assume that means there's one there.

dave

Author:  bobyar2001 [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Wooden sand tower

There is also most of a wooden sand tower remaining at the last-extant D&H roundhouse at Rouses Point, NY.

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