gmpullman It looks like the turntable is a fairly new facility.
That turntable is visible in a 1960 view on HistoricAerials.com. theres another one on the other side of the yard, complete with (gone now) roundhouse.
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NS has 2 in Roanoake, VA. Google Earth shows modern diesels parked on the tracks outside the roundhouse.
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This probably came up in some other thread, but does any small RRs in the USA still use turntables?
I know the class 1s don't, and there are museums like the one in NC with the recently moved 611 steam loco.
Don't count the class 1s out yet. Union Pacific has several turntables in use: Cheyenne Wyoming, Stockton California (a former WP), Roseville CA (former SP), Dunsmuir CA (former SP), Jamestown CA (former Sierra RR). The tables are not used nearly as often, but are used to turn engines when they are not facing the desired position for the consist being put together, freight cars (sometimes cars have to be unloaded from a certain side, and the car needs to be turned so that the correct side is facing the unloading dock, or the car needs to be turned for shop purposes). Tables are also used to turn snow equipment. There are many more tables than I have listed, and many active tables east of the Mississippi Riveer. Try doing a Google Maps search. If you look around major freight yards you can find existing roundhouses and turntables. I recently found an active roundhouse/turntable with locomotives in/or near Cleveland Ohio. And if you look carefully you can find the foot prints of old locations of turntables and/or Round Houses. Jon Kreiter
steemtrayn gmpullman It looks like the turntable is a fairly new facility. That turntable is visible in a 1960 view on HistoricAerials.com. theres another one on the other side of the yard, complete with (gone now) roundhouse.
Hi, Dave,
Could be the same one— but in this view it looks like it may have been moved about 100 yards?
Just speculation. When I saw it the structure and surrounding trackage looked like it was a recent addition, including an EPA friendly fuel pad just beyond the turntable.
[edit] could that small concrete apron at the 12 o'clock position be there for driving hi-rail vehicles on/off?
Probably have to get some input from a local to know for sure, Ed
BMMECNYC NS has 2 in Roanoake, VA. Google Earth shows modern diesels parked on the tracks outside the roundhouse.
Actually, there are four turntables in Roanoke. Two at East End Shops, one at Shaffer's Crossing Loco Shop and one at Shaffer's Crossing Car Shop.
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I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but the Wisconsin and Southern still uses a turntable and round(ish) house at their Janesville, WI facility.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6776067,-89.0348048,194m/data=!3m1!1e3
NS has one at Juniata Shops, and the Altoona Railroaders Museum has one. There used to be one 10 miles from where I lived, but the pit was finally filled in a few years ago.
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Another one to put on your BNSF list (at least according to overhead maps), there appears to be both a roundhouse and a turntable at the Division yard at Glendive, MT.
Here's an NS table in St. Louis...
http://binged.it/1njRTL0
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I missed those when I was google earth railfanning, thanks.