Some good shots here of the Colorado RR Museum's new roundhouse, with visiting power from the Georgetown Loop:

http://kickitup.railfan.net/html/mult/mult_museum.html
ryarger@rypn.org

Bob,

The turntable looks tobe dual gauge, is that correct?

Alan

alanl759@aol.com

> Bob,

> The turntable looks tobe dual gauge, is that
> correct?

> Alan

Yes it is, and a nice one at that. Any other dual guage turntables in the world? How about Durango before the Farmington branch was converted from standard to narrow guage?


nwstaybolt@reachone.com

The CRM turntable formerly served a CB&Q branch from Nebraska that ended at St. Francis, Kansas. There was a one-stall wooden enginehouse there also. It has been dual-gauged and modernized with metal grating at Golden. Alamosa, Colorado had the last "real" dual gauge turntable, serving both gauges until the end of the Alamosa-Durango line in 1970. The roundhouse has been bulldozed, but the table was taken to Ft. Lupton, Colorado for a private narrow gauge setup. That collection was recently auctioned and disbanded, but I can't remember where the table went. It had been shortened at Ft. Lupton, and never fully installed. The C&S 7th Street table at Denver served both gauges until the end of the C&S NG operations out of Denver in 1942. The 100' table is now dismantled at Chama, NM, looking for a good home.

ryarger@rypn.org

The Alamosa turntable is now at the Sumpter Valley Railway in McEwen, Oregon. We hope to have it restored and actually rebuilt back to it's origional 100' length.

Thanks, Taylor

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