Turntable and Roundhouse locations.

[nanaimo73]

  ..but what is a transfer table?  I'm picturing old photos fo Milwaukee Road shops, where a door opens, a new car moves east to west, then is *transfered* to a north-south line?  Something like that?

It is like a turntable, but moves sideways instead of spinning. If you've seen the movie "End of the Line", they ride one at the end. (Yard Center, IL?).

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/srchThumbs.aspx?srch=transfer+table&search=Search

There is one at the Livingstone Rebuild Center, MT.

[Murphy Siding]

     Dale- I understand now.  Thanks  -Norris

[Semper Vaporo]

You have a ? after the Summerville, GA turntable. Don't know what you mean by that but there is one on the old Central of Georgia that ran thru Summerville from Chattanooga to Rome, GA. The turntable is a recent installation of one removed from Birmingham, AL, I think. It is used primarily to turn Tennessee Valley Railroad Musuem excursion steam motive power that comes down from Chattanooga. It is in excellent shape having been re-built and installed in a new concrete foundation. Was not part of the original Cen of Ga operation.

 Northtowne

The "?" means I cannot tell if my assumption about the site is true.  In the case of Summerville, GA, the resolution of the image is between real good and real poor.  I can see no evidence of there ever being a roundhouse at the site, but it appears to be a very large (about 96-ft) turntable.  There is a north/south RR track along the west side and a pale straight line from the turntable(?) off the north side to the track.  There is also what appears to be a dirt road that winds around the east side to the south side.  There are no other tracks, nor evidence of tracks ever leading from it at any other place.  Thus it "looks like" it might work, but maybe I'm actually looking at the top of a large fuel tank with a catwalk that I am interpreting as a turntable in a pit.  If as you say there is a new installation of a turntable used to turn the excursion locomotive, then this very well could be it.  If someone that knows where the turntable actually exists can look at the Google Earth image and verify it, I will either remove the "?" or delete the entry if I have the wrong site.

The last time I was in Chattanooga, the train ran "through" Missionary Hill and the locomotive was turned on a turntable south of there.  (The north end was a Wye where they turned the entire consist.)  The resolution of the images for Chattanooga are really poor on the east side and I cannot find the tunnel entrances, nor the wye (with any "real" certainty), but the turntable is easily seen right at the east edge of a high resolution area.  The present image has the excursion train parked at the station just to the north of the turntable and a Diesel has already been turned and is on the north end of the train.  The resolution is good enough that someone that knows Diesel engines could probably determine the make and model (and someone that knows the TVRM roster could tell you the number (and maybe who the engineer is)).

I'm tempted to look up in the air often everyday and wave!  Might someday see myself on Google Earth!

 

 

[cordon]

Are there any transfer tables in the south and west?  If not, why?

 

 

[Zwingle]

Summerville, GA http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.478849&lon=-85.346429&z=17.6&r=0&src=ggl new "display turntable" - http://railga.com/oddend/sumturntable.html  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.478849&lon=-85.346429&z=17.6&r=0&src=yh Summerville, GA, prior to installation of display turntable.    

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.772126&lon=-88.273536&z=17.8&r=0&src=ggl Eola, IL  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.707866&lon=-92.957164&z=17.7&r=0&src=ggl Marceline Missouri (foundation)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=35.908685&lon=-100.400534&z=16.8&r=0&src=msa Canadian, TX - foundation  

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=60.724748&lon=-135.053444&z=17.8&r=0&src=gglWhitehorse, CA - "Whitehorse-White Pass & Yukon" 2-stall "roundhouse"  Turntable long gone.

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=38.259859&lon=-104.614704&z=15.7&r=0&src=msa Pueblo, CO - working turntable and roundhouse footprint  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.363314&lon=-123.816263&z=17.8&r=0&src=yh- a buried turntable is all that remains of the roundhouse in Caspar, CA  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=47.222187&lon=-68.755515&z=17.7&r=0&src=yh St. Francis, Maine - B&A turntable adjacent to the St. Frances Historical Society  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=60.128944&lon=-149.42991&z=16.6&r=0&src=msa Seward, AK - foundation  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=44.10136&lon=-69.122909&z=17.6&r=0&src=msa Rockland, ME turntable/roundhouse    

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.316338&lon=-105.890894&z=17.3&r=0&src=msa Como, CO

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=38.399958&lon=-96.196078&z=17.1&r=0&src=msa Emporia, KS  

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.047183&lon=-95.594544&z=16.2&r=0&src=msa Falls City, Nebraska  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.778377&lon=-112.059081&z=17.6&r=0&src=yh Clarkdale, AZ  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.783475&lon=-82.753531&z=16.3&r=0&src=msaCrestline, OH  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.365278&lon=-92.816654&z=17.3&r=0&src=msa Malvern, AR http://www.trainweather.com/malvernroundhouse.html  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=36.045834&lon=-88.241768&z=17.2&r=0&src=msaBruceton, TN  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=14.968115&lon=-89.544522&z=18.7&r=0&src=ggl Zacapa, Guatemala http://www.steam.demon.co.uk/trains/pics04/gt04005.jpg  

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=38.92469&lon=-79.851744&z=17.4&r=0&src=yhElkins, WV

  http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.930973&lon=-72.284584&z=17.8&r=0&src=msaKeene, VT (shopping center)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.272426&lon=-110.970756&z=16.5&r=0&src=gglEvanston, Wyoming  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.957904&lon=-74.153024&z=19.2&r=0&src=gglHawthorne, NJ (warehouse) http://www.gsmrrclub.org/HISTORY/history16.html  

   http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.286503&lon=-72.981909&z=17.2&r=0&src=ggl Chester, MA  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=43.625303&lon=-70.295162&z=17.3&r=0&src=msa South Portland, ME  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=49.273247&lon=-123.121025&z=17.6&r=0&src=msa Vancouver, BC (This happens to be the oldest building in Vancouver still in its original location.  Now Vancouver's community center.

  http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=37.950115&lon=-120.417095&z=17.5&r=0&src=msa Jamestown, CA (Sierra Railroad)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=36.414684&lon=-93.733694&z=18.3&r=0&src=ggl Eureka Springs, AR (tourist/working)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.987196&lon=135.742634&z=16.9&r=0&src=ggl Kyoto, Japan (working/steam locomotive museum)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.713008&lon=-89.332189&z=16.7&r=0&src=msa Amboy, IL (Only a small piece of this one still exists. Its now part of a large factory that now produces ice cream toppings.  The original roundhouse was 216 feet in diameter.)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.99522&lon=-91.847458&z=15.4&r=0&src=msa Atkins, Iowa (foundation)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=40.240562&lon=-77.900099&z=17.6&r=0&src=yh Orbisonia, Pennsylvania "East Broad Top" working  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=38.840168&lon=-104.859915&z=17.2&r=0&src=msa Colorado Springs - commercial  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=37.80446&lon=-122.403126&z=18.4&r=0&src=ggl San Francisco, CA "Belt Line" roundhouse built in 1889  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.916576&lon=-1.460737&z=17.1&r=0&src=msa Derby, England.  Victorian roundhouse built in 1839.  Hit by German bombs in WWII. Now abandoned.    

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=55.635882&lon=12.079617&z=16.7&r=0&src=ggl Roskilde, Denmark - storage for old steam locomotives  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=43.20637&lon=-70.864651&z=17.8&r=0&src=msa Dover, NH - B&M roundhouse - 1920  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=38.676727&lon=-121.179337&z=18.8&r=0&src=ggl Folsom, CA turntable preserved.  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.845862&lon=-87.740989&z=18.8&r=0&src=ggl Cicero, IL - abandoned roundhouse and manual turntable  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.898767&lon=-87.895191&z=18.3&r=0&src=msa Bellwood, Illinois - Proviso turntable  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=37.701447&lon=-122.406451&z=16.5&r=0&src=msa Bayshore roundhouse, CA  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=47.133725&lon=-88.57756&z=17.7&r=0&src=msa Hancock, MI - The roof is missing from this old Quincy & Torch Lake roundhouse.  

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=44.276857&lon=-83.502109&z=17.8&r=0&src=msa Tawas City, MI  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=32.075562&lon=-81.101577&z=17.6&r=0&src=ggl Coastal Heritage Society working turntable/roundhouse - Savannah, GA.  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=43.297781&lon=-93.206326&z=17.1&r=0&src=msa Manly, IA  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=35.787399&lon=-78.641778&z=18.4&r=0&src=ggl Raleigh, NC turntable & rough outline  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=37.261874&lon=-97.385568&z=17.7&r=0&src=msa Wellington, KS - pit/foundation  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.45926&lon=-77.960157&z=17.3&r=0&src=yh Martinsburg, WV  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.285251&lon=-76.632344&z=18.2&r=0&src=msa Mount Clare, MD - B&O Museum   

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.133796&lon=-103.474221&z=17.5&r=0&src=msa Hugo, CO (oldest roundhouse in colorado)  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.032038&lon=-114.026464&z=17.3&r=0&src=ggl Calgary, Canada  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=46.863295&lon=-67.997907&z=17.2&r=0&src=msa Caribou, ME

  http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.231408&lon=-68.968353&z=17.2&r=0&src=yh Derby, ME

  http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.129968&lon=-104.815878&z=15.7&r=0&src=msa Cheyenne, WY  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=41.272223&lon=-110.97101&z=16.3&r=0&src=msa Evanston, WY  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=47.30172&lon=-122.230004&z=16.8&r=0&src=msa Auburn, WA - footprint  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=32.551856&lon=-94.359778&z=17.6&r=0&src=msa Marshall, TX - Foundation  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=39.067873&lon=-95.684856&z=17.3&r=0&src=msa Topeka, KS - foundation    

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.010392&lon=-71.50719&z=17.7&r=0&src=msa Beecher Falls, NH - turntable and single-engine roundhouse. However, this same scene through Yahoo shows it to now be demolished. http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=45.010279&lon=-71.507097&z=17.7&r=0&src=yh  

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=37.664058&lon=-82.268789&z=17&r=0&src=msa Williamson, WV    

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/category/buildings/transportation-rail-turntables/  More here.  This site is nice because all their examples are linked to satellite images.

[Zwingle]

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.0872&lon=-90.141304&z=17.5&r=0&src=msa CB&Q footprint, Savanna, IL

 http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.088998&lon=-90.146282&z=17.5&r=0&src=msa Milwaukee foundation/pit - Savanna, IL (I was wrong, it is still there!)

[wgnrr]

Spooner, WI has a roundhouse and turntable.

Phil

[blhanel]

Spooner, WI has a roundhouse and turntable.

Phil

Found a decent image of it on Terraserver... N 45.82463, W 91.8861. 

[Don Gibson]

Are there any transfer tables in the south and west?  If not, why? 

HOW 'BOUT San Berdoo? Far enough west for ya?

[cordon]

Thanks.  It seems that a lot of the transfer tables are in northern areas of the country, while turntables and roundhouses seem to be more evenly distributed.  I'm curious why this is.

 

[snagletooth]

Thanks.  It seems that a lot of the transfer tables are in northern areas of the country, while turntables and roundhouses seem to be more evenly distributed.  I'm curious why this is.

 

I know I'l be corrected, but it seems to me the time period. The Midwest was in the middle of the "Rail Boom" when the transfer table idea came forward. By the time the West got it, they already had better ideas to handle rolling repairs.