old roundhouse pictures

[TBat55]

Manchester, NY June05

old roundhouse

topographic map from Terraserver.com, not sure how many stalls


aerial photo of most of it


roundhouse, last addition


interesting additions (note sliding dock doors right)


dock doors again


outside area where rails once extended


original stalls before expansion


2 types of wall construction






inside








structure across from roundhouse and turntable


where the turntable was (pit center is in trees at right)


not a clue what this was, heavy steel attached to a building, big pipes

[Train 284]

WOW! That is very interesting. Good find! To bad I'm about 3000 miles from where it is or I would go have a look at it.

Matt

[joseph2]

Thanks for posting the photos.I notice there is a discussion about roundhouses on the Trains Trackside Guide forum.

[tatans]

Great photos, wish we would see more stuff like this on this forum, history, interesting, right on topic, nice job.

[TBat55]

While flying over south Chicago last month, I saw a large roundhouse and turntable. I wonder how many still exist that are in good condition, maybe with working turntables. My guess is a dozen max.

[grandeman]

Neat! Thanks for the photo tour.

There's still two roundhouses in the Birmingham, Al area. One is still used on the CSX but doesn't have a turntable anymore the other is ex Southern and is used by a business. The BNSF (Frisco) has a functional turntable but the roundhouse is gone! They were interesting pieces of our history. It's a shame more of them weren't preserved.

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TBat55

While flying over south Chicago last month, I saw a large roundhouse and turntable. I wonder how many still exist that are in good condition, maybe with working turntables. My guess is a dozen max.

Thanks for sharing your photos.

I have several pictures on my Railimage site of two turntables in Halifax. One working, one not.

Fergie

[PistolPete]

About 4 or 5 years ago while in Colorado Springs I saw some gitf shops etc which looked like they were in an old round house. I am not sure about the address I will check it out when I am out there in early july.

[steamaddict]

Probably not quite the reply you are looking for TBat55 but there is a full circle (52 bay) Roundhouse with a working turntable which is in good condition in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. It is curruntly used to house the Railway Workshops office building, the blacksmiths and to store preserved rollingstock and 2 diesel locos.

steamaddict