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[quote user="MICHAEL BRATLEY"]I have a question about locomotive movement - if my terminal has an approach / departure track that leads to and from the roundtable (and roundhouse), I would assume once servicing is complete locomotives would need to be either reversed out of servicing or straight out based on the direction they would need to travel once back on the main line... is this accurate?[/quote] Yes and no, when servicing was finished, steam locomotives would be turned on the turntable to face the direction of travel for the train they were assigned.  This was done on the way out of the roundhouse so the locomotive only needed to be turned once, if at all.  Some roundhouses had outbound tracks spaced so that locomotives could move off of the turntable in the forward direction no matter what their intended direction of travel.  It would be undesirable to have to send a locomotive back to the turntable or to a wye for turning at a later time (delay in starting the train).  It didnt always work out for freight trains (railroads didnt usually have cover power as discussed above for them). [quote user="MICHAEL BRATLEY"]Are their protypical examples of this?[/quote] This is covered in Freight Terminals and Trains by John Droege (1912, 1925), available online or in print form from the NMRA (1998, 2012).  Chapters 27-30 cover servicing of locomotives.
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