garthor wrote:Ok was just on google earth and noticed a yard in Whiteplains N.y, looks like it is for passenger service atm. did this yard service steam at any time and was there a turntable and roundhouse there?
The roundhouse and turntable were at North White Plains. In 1951 or thenabouts, I spent an afternoon sitting on a hill watching the activity there. Trains arriving from GCT behind third rail motors swapped them for Pacifics at the North White Plains station, and vice versa.
Chuck