The Long Island Railroad Museum site in Riveerhead, New York needs a turntable.

I just say a newsletter of the museum from 2002, talking about the purchase of a turntable near Buffalo, NY. Did they ever get it home?

Also I wonder if there was a turntable at Riverhead at some point in the past. When I lived near there it was strictly Diesel country with no turning facilities.

ted_miles@nps.gov

Not claiming this to be fact but if I recall correctly, the turntable did make it down to LI after at least one false start. There was a turntable in Riverhead a long while ago, reminents of the wall can be seen on the former lumber yard property they where given.

> The Long Island Railroad Museum site in
> Riveerhead, New York needs a turntable.

> I just say a newsletter of the museum from
> 2002, talking about the purchase of a
> turntable near Buffalo, NY. Did they ever
> get it home?

> Also I wonder if there was a turntable at
> Riverhead at some point in the past. When I
> lived near there it was strictly Diesel
> country with no turning facilities.


belpaire@aol.com

Yes they did in fact get a turntable....It was originally built for the GTW at Fort Erie Ont. and after an arson fire on what was left of the roundhouse, was removed for scrapping by CN. The Arcade & Attica got a hold of it, and shipped it by flat car to Arcade, where it was to be used in a new engine house development. This never materialised, and it sat in a field out behind (if i can remember correctly) a lumber mill. I was again threated with scrapping until it was saved yet again, this time by the group in Long Island. There are a couple people on here involved with that group that can tell more....

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> Not claiming this to be fact but if I recall
> correctly, the turntable did make it down to
> LI after at least one false start. There was
> a turntable in Riverhead a long while ago,
> reminents of the wall can be seen on the
> former lumber yard property they where
> given.


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