Taken in 1995, not long before they were torn down.

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http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?j ... B_1995.jpg

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?j ... C_1995.jpg

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There was an organized effort to save these buildings in the 1980s, that sadly failed.

Ugh. At least they got photos.

Little bit of a recap here... there's no erecting hauls of locomotive builders left, right?

Lima- All gone.
EMD- Main erecting shops gone, what else?
Alco- some buildings remain- does the erecting shop?
Baldwin- some buildings remain.

J

The old MP shop building in Waco, Texas (now owned by the UP) looks alot like the Lima erecting hall; complete with the massive overhead cranes. The Santa Fe shops in Cleburne, Texas where the Santa Fe built steam locomotives as well has built cars and rebuilt diesels is still in existance and ran by Gunderson.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project

Enough to make a grown man cry!

I'm not sure.... large parts of the PRR's Juniata shops in Altoona survive, and they have assembled locomotives there as late as the Norfolk Southern era..........

Reading Shops?

Other railroad building shops?

I belive Norfolk & Western's Roanoke Shops is still standing.

Brings back memories. I remember being there in the early 90s when 765 called it home. Drafty and cold, but at least the engine was indoors. We did a lot of exploring through the buildings and found some interesting things.

The area where they built shays was used for symphony concerts after it shut down in 1981. Some beautiful locomotives were built there.

The Reading erecting shop still stands in Reading PA. I do not know what it is being used for but the building is privately owned as far as I know. I think the erecting shop used by the Cotton Belt is still standing. Is that where 819 currently resides?

John Bohon

As stated before, a large part of the P.R.R. shops that are now N.S. and Altoona Pipe and Steel. I believe a large part of the old DL&W shops in Scranton are still there, shared between Steamtown and a large factory of some kind.

Yes, but to answer the original question, did the railroad actually construct locomotives there? PRR Altoona: It depends what buildings are left, although as I said NS assembled some "kits" in the current Shops. Reading: Yes. Roanoke: Yes. DL&W Scranton: I don't actually think the DL&W built any actual locos in the surviving shop buildings, but I stand ready to be corrected.

It's amazing to think that the 765 was, at least technically, the last locomotive to ever leave the LOCO.

KL

It's a ruin now, but the machine shop structure in the Savannah roundhouse complex was actualy used by the Central RR and Banking Co. not only to repair locomotives, but to build new ones in house - light power, back in the 1850s. I don't know for sure, but I imagine they were replicas of the 4-2-0s and 4-4-0s they got from other builders.

Glovers erecting shop went down back in the '90s.

dave

The Lackawanna RR erecting hall in Scranton, PA Still exists. Now owned by General Dynamics.

Shop building and roundhouse at Keene, NH was butchered into retail shops in the 1980s. It is said the Cheshire RR (later part of the B&M) actually built a few locomotives there when the RR first came through in the 1850s-60s. The very short turntable, removed in the 1970s, is said to remain at Sanbornville, NH on the former Wolfeborough RR.

The one building that Altoona Pipe and Steel uses to repair railcars was erecting shop #3 where the 643 may have been built. The E&M shop at N.S. was the E&M shop for the P.R.R. where the larger locomotives were built like 1361. As a side note, our turntable was built right in the middle of erecting shop #1 and some good pictures of the work pits we uncovered on our website.


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