Roundhouse Blueprints

[rlhelton]

I am looking for blueprints or building plans of the last Roundhouse built in the U.S. with a Turntable. Seems like every time I search the web for information my search is wat to broad and I get so much wrong info that I can't find what I want, or the names I use for items aren't the correct or proper names to find the information I need. Putting "railroad" in the search line usually really confuses the issue as you get world-wide info for both model and proto railroads.
Thanks for any help.
rlhelton

[jrbarney]

Rlhelton,
Possibly you could break the search into two parts. For example, first search
for something like "last built American roundhouse and turntable." Then once you have located a few examples, use the specific information from the first search and add "blueprints or plans" for each location.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[leighant]

I am puzzled by your search. Are you looking for as late or as modern a roundhouse as possible to model?
Are you looking for a particular roundhouse you have heard of and can't identify specifically?

My puzzlement is because "the last roundhouse built in the US" sounds like a kind of trivia question, a curiosity,
whereas looking for a scale drawing or blueprint sounds like seriously considering building a model...

I wonder if you could go by the angle of searching records of companies that build turntables, and find some late examples of turntables, and then see which may have had roundhouses built at the same time the turntables was bought or installed. You have got me wondering-- are turntables manufactured as "kits" in a factory and assembled or are (were?) they built from scratch on site?

Are you including turntables and roundhouses built not for a common carrier but for a tourist or museum railroad?

[Gunns]

Well,
the D&S built a round house in the 90s after the old one burned down....1991 I think
the last intact Round house of the AT&SF is in Las Veagas NM <no turntable>
http://terraservice.net/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=13&X=2402&Y=19690&W=1&qs=%7clas%7cNew+Mexico%7c
the turntable in Albequrque is intact but the roundhouse was torn down for tax reasons....
http://terraservice.net/image.aspx?T=4&S=11&Z=13&X=873&Y=9705&W=1&qs=%7calb%7cNew+Mexico%7c
Note the big square buildings are the Barelles shops with one of the last big transfer tables left
Gunns