Zwingle Skagway, AK - Flash Earth translates Bing coordinates. Monte Cristo, WA is one that's impossible to discern via Google because of snow cover.
Skagway, AK - Flash Earth translates Bing coordinates. Monte Cristo, WA is one that's impossible to discern via Google because of snow cover.
Monte Cristo, WA... I used Flash Earth to determine the location and transfered those Lat/Lon to my Google Earth KMZ file. If you look closely and assume the pushpin is in the middle of the turntable then the pit is discernable, but if you are just looking, it is just a snow field with some odd shadows!
Zwingle Kersey, PA - 2' gauge turntable for the tourist Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad.
Kersey, PA - 2' gauge turntable for the tourist Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad.
Your link to Kersey is wrong (takes me to Monte Cristo, WA) ,but I used the other link and Flash Earth here also to get the Lat/Lon and put that into GE to get a pushpin located. The resolution in GE is too poor to see much of anything but splotches.
Zwingle Superior, WI - to add to the Superior already on the list. Superior, WI - another - best seen via Google historic imagery.
Superior, WI - to add to the Superior already on the list.
Superior, WI - another - best seen via Google historic imagery.
Both added.
Zwingle Baraboo, WI - Turntable visible via Google historic imagery.
Baraboo, WI - Turntable visible via Google historic imagery.
I just cannot find anything here, no matter how much my mind wants to see something.
Zwingle Lorton, VA - Turntable Shenandoah, VA - Footprint Crewe, VA - Footprint Alexandria, VA - Here a turntable can be seen in earlier images. Alexandria, VA - A Roundhouse/turntable visible in 1988 imagery.
Lorton, VA - Turntable
Shenandoah, VA - Footprint
Crewe, VA - Footprint
Alexandria, VA - Here a turntable can be seen in earlier images.
Alexandria, VA - A Roundhouse/turntable visible in 1988 imagery.
All added.
Zwingle Monroe, VA - Footprint
Monroe, VA - Footprint
I just cannot find anything here.
Zwingle Portsmouth, VA - Footprint seen via historic imagery.
Portsmouth, VA - Footprint seen via historic imagery.
Cannot find this one either.
Zwingle Harrisonburg, VA - Roundhouse is James Madison University Services Building.
Harrisonburg, VA - Roundhouse is James Madison University Services Building.
Hmmm.... the oldest images of this location do not show any building there. That building may be a 1/4 round building, but I don't see a link to a RR site.
Zwingle Bellows Falls, VT - Working roundhouse/turntable
Bellows Falls, VT - Working roundhouse/turntable
As mentioned in the previous post, this is across the river in N.H.
Zwingle Newell, PA - Abandoned roundhouse Brownsville, PA - Footprint - Also a turntable in earlier imagery. Oil City, PA - Footprint
Newell, PA - Abandoned roundhouse
Brownsville, PA - Footprint - Also a turntable in earlier imagery.
Oil City, PA - Footprint
Zwingle Washington, DC - Turntable
Washington, DC - Turntable
Already in the list.
Zwingle I agree that replicas should be included on the list. After all, they're quite real. But it is worth noting that they are replicas. Golden, CO, Folsom, CA, and Sugar Creek, OH are a few examples. In the case of the latter, the site is so new, it's marked on Google Earth, but the imagery hasn't yet caught up with the construction.
I agree that replicas should be included on the list. After all, they're quite real. But it is worth noting that they are replicas. Golden, CO, Folsom, CA, and Sugar Creek, OH are a few examples. In the case of the latter, the site is so new, it's marked on Google Earth, but the imagery hasn't yet caught up with the construction.
Sugar Creek is just a general area in the middle of the Northeast quadrant of Ohio, according to Google Earth. There is a 20 mile difference in the spelling between "Sugar Creek" and "Sugarcreek" (the real name of the city where the Age of Steam Roundhouse is located. The web site for The Age Of Steam Roundhouse (your reference to Sugar Creek) has some really nice photos of the new building. I found what is probably the site near Smokey Lane Road, but the latest images on GE are from 2008 and the roundhouse was started in 2010, so there is not even any evidence of turned earth anywyere. I guess we'll just have to wait for Google Earth to update.
Zwingle Santa Barbara isn't original nor a replica, but it does commemorate the roundhouse. The Flemington, NJ "Turntable Junction" might fall into a similar category. In this case the turntable pit was filled/bricked over in commemoration. A gazebo was added in the center, and at one time a caboose was on display. Even though there's nothing left of the original turntable, its location is preserved. Both Santa Barbara and Flemington might qualify for a "monument-type" of notation.
Santa Barbara isn't original nor a replica, but it does commemorate the roundhouse. The Flemington, NJ "Turntable Junction" might fall into a similar category. In this case the turntable pit was filled/bricked over in commemoration. A gazebo was added in the center, and at one time a caboose was on display. Even though there's nothing left of the original turntable, its location is preserved. Both Santa Barbara and Flemington might qualify for a "monument-type" of notation.
Is there anyother evidence of the location of the roundhouse? Something more than an aerial view of a gazebo? I'd be willing to center a pushpin on the gazebo if I could find some other photographic evidence of what was there before.
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