Turntable up for Auction - Needs to be Saved - Scrapped

tomgears · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:37 am

The auction is ongoing at this moment. It was supposed to be installed for the W&W but the deal fell through.

https://bid.usgovbid.com/Public/Auction/AuctionDetails?AuctionId=ouMyDWPiADgfC%2fakwVxxbg%3d%3d&pageNumber=pf6Q%2bhJtdeleDd9FfYpy9w%3d%3d&pagesize=RFjQt3g5sfAihPd6AZY05w%3d%3d&filter=5OndKPRD3IoxQMHdMezLDw%3d%3d

JimBoylan · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:19 pm

Current bid is $500. Description says built by American Bridge Co., but photo has a London & North Eastern stem engine on it.

p51 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:27 pm

JimBoylan wrote:

Description says built by American Bridge Co., but photo has a London & North Eastern stem engine on it.

I'm sure they used a stock photo they found somewhere.

70000 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:44 pm

JimBoylan wrote:

Current bid is $500. Description says built by American Bridge Co., but photo has a London & North Eastern stem engine on it.

Looks like Kings Cross station turntable in London.....
You could recreate that image by posing the A1 Trusts new build 2-8-2 "Prince of Wales" on it though!
https://www.a1steam.com/prince-of-wales/home

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:46 pm

How is this TT being sold at a "government liquidation" site?

Who actually owned it, and what "deal" fell through?

wesp · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 1:57 pm

The turntable is located in Yorklyn, DE and is being offered by the State of Delaware.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:14 pm

wesp wrote:

The turntable is located in Yorklyn, DE and is being offered by the State of Delaware.

How did Delaware end up with what was supposed to be the W&W's--"abandoned property" statutes?

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 10:19 pm

The description says it's an 80-footer: "Railroad Turntable is 80 foot standard continuous deck. Manufactured by American Bridge Company in 1910. The turntable consists of riveted built up steel plates and angles."

Showing the LNER turntable is equivalent to auctioning an ex-Delaware police car and showing a photo of the Bluesmobile.

Phil Mulligan

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:49 pm

I've been informed back-channel that, contrary to what some people (and I) might have thought, the turntable was not acquired by the W&W/Historic Red Clay Valley, but by the State of Delaware for the proposed turntable installation at Yorklyn.

I'm not going to pretend to know all the convolutions involved here.

RDGRAILFAN · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:52 am

Older RYPN post for 2018
art of that redevelopment of the former NVF site includes a new station (I wonder if theyll move the old Greenbank, nee Kennedyville Station down from Hockessin "East", since it rarely sees use there?) and installation of the aforementioned turntable that is already sitting at Yorklyn on a flat car. It was purchased from IRM for scrap value.

old information from 2016
The existing turntable at the Illinois Railway Museum is an 80 foot long one it obtained in 1981 from the Chicago & Northwestern at Harvard, IL

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:08 pm

This turntable has been scrapped.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:17 pm

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.