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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:25 pm 
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TVRM used to have turntable rides when you got a cab ride (at least they did on my first cab ride in 1981 as a kid). I got a diesel cab ride around 2012 and they booted me off during the turntable spin.

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:25 pm 

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NSRM does of not allow anyone to ride the turntable loaded or not, nor does NSRM allow anyone to ride equipment on or off the turntable with exception of the engine crew obviously. We do allow the public to help push the table when loaded with the caveat that the person closet to the table on the push pole be museum staff or operating crew. There is a lot of mass there and I don’t know how a defense in court for squashing a visitor would be successfully presented.


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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:39 pm 
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Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec has a turntable
West Coast Railway Museum in BC too

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
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The Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum has a replica roundhouse and turntable. I believe they're also restoring an 0-4-0 to operation, although I'm not able to find any information on it.

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:55 am 

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Dave wrote:
They were a standard part of our visitor tour package in Savannah

Savannah is, as far as I know, the only museum where guests ride the turntable while aboard a car - the locomotive and rider gon are both short enough to fit on the table at the same time.

A related question: what museums allow guests to turn their manual turntables?

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:41 pm 

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jettrainfan wrote:
Age of Steam has a turntable as well, and they offer rides during their tour.


Some clarification: Turntable rides are a part of the three-hour tour programs, not the regularly scheduled 90-minute programs.

The turntable in use was originally in place at the Western Maryland's Hagerstown facility. There is another shorter bridge on the property, but I do not know the heritage.

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:40 pm 

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The Colorado Railroad Museum has a four-rail turntable. I do not know if they have rides. It is part of the Cornelius Restoration Roundhouse.

The South Park Historical Society has restored a turntable and the stone Roundhouse at their site in Como.

There is a small hand-powered turntable at the Nevada County Railroad Museum at Nevada City, California.

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:16 pm 

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Danbury can be put on the list. I believe it's the original New Haven turntable from when the shops were built at the site in 1917. Pretty sure the footings and pads are still there from the roundhouse it served too.

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:42 am 

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Southern California Railway Museum (formerly Orange Empire Ry M) has a reproduction wooden gallows turntable. This is part of the narrow-gauge collection. Built from Southern Pacific drawings and using castings made with patterns created for the NSRM turntable. Some modifications made based upon the SP turntable existing at Laws, California.

No rides. Sawhorse style barricades at each end to discourage people from walking on it.

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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:02 am 

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I was fortunate as a CSX T&E employee to not only get to ride, but also move a locomotive on and off the Brunswick, MD table a couple of times. I guess that table is now gone.


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 Post subject: Re: Turntables as a part of railroad Museums
PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:28 am 

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The B&O museum has the turn table in the roundhouse and does occasional demonstrations. I haven't seen them offer rides. Last time I attended one, they declined my offer to hop down into the pit and help push.


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