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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:54 am 

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I may have been wrong about the Simpson roundhouse. Googol Earth shows it still standing with the turn table pit filled in.


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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:29 pm 

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Randy,
The most complete treatment of roundhouses and turntables was in the Railway Museum Quarterly in the early 2000s; maybe some one remembers the date.

It has four sections: railroad active, museums, in storage and abandoned.

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:13 pm 

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The ex 1909 GTP/CNR 21 stall roundhouse in Biggar SK was leveled a only few years ago, as well as the station. 3 stalls of a 1910 CPR roundhouse still stand in Wynyard SK, as well as the fully intact (including turntable) roundhouse in Prince Albert, SK.

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 6:19 pm 

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Location: Byers, Colorado
Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 3 foot gauge, ex Coahuila y Zacatecas (no track or turntable)

Auguascalientes, Augascalientes, Mexico, standard gauge ex Nacionales de Mexico, museum

Thlalnepantla, DF, Mexico, standard gauge, ex N de M, abandoned on property of Ferrovalle

Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico, 2 stall enginehouse, three foot gauge, ex N de M, museum

Escuintla (abandoned but guarded), Guatemala City (museum open to public), and Zacapa (museum no public access), Guatemala, ex- International Railways of Central America, all three foot gauge

Sonsonate, El Salvador, ex Ferrocarril de El Salvador, three foot gauge, museum

San Salvador, El Salvador, FENADESAL, in active use AND a museum, three foot gauge

This list is not complete, but I haven't been to Latin America for 11 years....

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 7:34 pm 

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John T wrote:
I may have been wrong about the Simpson roundhouse. Googol Earth shows it still standing with the turn table pit filled in.

It's still there, Sierra Pacific went to the trouble of filling in the pit (after a literal last-minute scramble to remove the turntable, which S-P DID donate) in order to convert it to some kind of warehouse. The Peninsula group were grateful for what they were donated (virtually everything else, including the engines and track) but a bit disappointed they didn't get the roundhouse, they are working on things out in the open now.


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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:47 pm 

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o484 wrote:
Jamaica, NY Long Island Rail Road


The LIRR Morris Park roundhouse in Jamaica, NY, built in 1889, is not long for this world and is being replaced with a new diesel shop. Whether the new facility will include the existing turntable I don't know.

http://www.railroadconstruction.com/about/news/2018/05/23/lirr-morris-park-diesel-locomotive-shop-employee-facility

http://www.amodernli.com/project/morris-park-diesel-locomotive-shop/

http://amcccorp.com/project/lirr-mpls/

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:08 pm 

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I understand the Hyannis, MA, New Haven Railroad roundhouse is under threat for demolition:

http://www.amherstrail.org/ARS/news.php


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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:48 am 

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I haven't noticed a mentioned in either thread:

Minerva, OH, ex-NYC. It's been incorporated into a group of additions that now belong to a finned tubing manufacturer.

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:49 pm 

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10stewi wrote:
Rockland, Maine Former Maine Central Roundhouse now Maine Eastern
active with turn table and 3 stalls if I remember correctly


I was there last week. Only one train left, used mainly by the Dragon cement company. An employee told me the turntable works fine but is never used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockland_ ... gine_House

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMQA ... ockland_ME

https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/ro ... ew/google/

https://maps.roadtrippers.com/places/20 ... /374957150

https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/his ... ions/99191


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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:05 am 

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philip.marshall wrote:
o484 wrote:
Jamaica, NY Long Island Rail Road


The LIRR Morris Park roundhouse in Jamaica, NY, built in 1889, is not long for this world and is being replaced with a new diesel shop. Whether the new facility will include the existing turntable I don't know.

http://www.railroadconstruction.com/about/news/2018/05/23/lirr-morris-park-diesel-locomotive-shop-employee-facility

http://www.amodernli.com/project/morris-park-diesel-locomotive-shop/

http://amcccorp.com/project/lirr-mpls/

-Philip Marshall


Slightly off topic, but how did the locomotives on loan from the parent PRR make it out to LI? Barge or pulled through Penn Station?


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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:02 pm 

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Metsno1fan wrote:
Slightly off topic, but how did the locomotives on loan from the parent PRR make it out to LI? Barge or pulled through Penn Station?


Good question. They were presumably moved by car float, and more likely to LIC rather than Bay Ridge, but I've yet to see a photo of this operation.

(Someone, somewhere must have a photo of a K4 taking a boat ride across New York Harbor...)

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:22 pm 

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ChicagoGreatWestern wrote:
93. Winona, MN: Green Bay and Western enginehouse, two tracks, now part of a barge-loading operation.



Deriving the location of this enginehouse based on the photo below and Google Maps, it appears it was just west of the removed GB&S Mississipi bridge. If it was where I think it was, it does not appear this enginehouse is there anymore, replaced by storage containers.

https://www.greenbayroute.com/2004winona_gbw_enginehouse.jpg

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:26 pm 

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HudsonL wrote:
Minnesota active Roundhouses:

Minneapolis, MN ex-Soo



I believe this roundhouse is the one noted in the article below as being demolished in August this year by CP.

https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/08/01-former-soo-line-shoreham-roundhouse-diesel-shop-being-demolished

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 Post subject: Re: Surviving roundhouses
PostPosted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 11:56 pm 

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I dont believe I've seen it mentioned in this thread. Is what I believe to be a former L&N roundhouse in Covington, Ky on West 14th street listed?

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