KANSAS: Ellis, Herington,Hoisington,Pratt, Topeka ,Parsons (TrT &TuT),Syracuse,Coolidge,Elkhart,Belleville,Liberal,Pittsburg, Coffeyville,Chanute, St. Francis (now the turntable at CRRM-Golden CO); Great Bend
J, K & L
Just the "M"'s next.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
First, Thank you to MudChicken for info about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific that lead to 3 new entries in my list and one correction (all reflected in today's list).
Here are the "I"s:
Note: the first of the 3 for Cedar Rapids, is not findable using Google Earth. I have an old (and deteriorating) large panoramic photo of the area that shows two large roundhouses, one of which is detectable using Google Earth, and I used that to guess at the Lat/Lon of the other.
Short list next time, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky and Lousiana. (And that will not even be 1/2 way!)
Here are some more:
Next time I will do at least some of the "I"'s, Long list (89) if I do all of them at one time. Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, and Italy.
Of course there is one more SanFrancisco cable car turntable -- the north-end terminus of the Powell-Hyde line at Bay & Taylor Streets. (Both Poweel-Hyde & Powell-Mason lines have the same south terminus, as previously noted, at Powell & Market.)
Some of the other cable car lines go to the California Street line, which goes along California St. from Van Ness Ave to Market St at Drumm St -- but neither terminus has a turntable, since those cable cars are double-ended.
The "cable car barn" (and Cable Car Museum) is on Mason St, between Washington & Jackson Streets. Not really a "roundhouse", and I don't know if there is a turntable inside the building, but that's where they park!
And an OOPS! in the Richmond coordinates... no wonder you could not find it!
The two Richmond sites should be:
EDIT: 8/16/2011
add:
Found another one in CA...
I think this is another BART terminus similar to the one in Richmond.
I need to follow these lines around a bit more to see if there are others.
Thanks! Add another Turntable to the list for California:
The 'north end' is the one at:
Are there other turntables for the cable cars? Some of the tracks seem to diverge and head off in other directions than just between the two turntables I have now.
The 2nd Richmond one is in a seperate yard to the northeast... Parallel to 13th St. near Costa Ave). I have it labeled (in other notes) as being part of "BART". On Google Earth, the images show lots of what appear to be passenger cars at that site.
The 1st one (to the southeast, the yard runs parallel and between Castro Ave and Richmond Pkwy) is a freight yard (tank cars, covered hoppers, etc.) and what appears to be an engine terminal (lots of engines around).
Also, the 2 Richmond, CA locations appear to be the same ex-Santa Fe yard. One turntable is still clealy visible. Was their a second, or is the 2nd (slightly to the NE) the location of an old engine house?
Of your two San Francisco, CA entries, one (the first) was for the State Belt on the Embarcadero -- the roundhouse is still intact, having been converted into offices.
What caught my eye was tthe second -- the Fisherman's Wharf terminus of the Powell-Hyde cable car line. There is another similar turntable at the other end of the line, at the foot of Powell Street (at Market Street). I can't figure out coordinates, but if you search 1 Powell St, San Francisco, CA on a map search program, you should be able to make it out.
Got waylaid by real life, sorry... here is the next batch:
Have fun!
Next up, a rather short list of lots of places: Washington DC, Delaware, Denmark, England, Florida, France, Georgia, Guatemala, Hawaii, and Hungary.
AGAIN, I didn't READ the message before answering, ----sorry !
Thanks, but... Yep, have that one. It will show up in this thread when I get down to "S" in the alphabet. (I am going by the first letter of the State in the U.S., Province in Canada, and Country elsewhere.) I will post the next 38 in my list (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Cuba and Czech Republic) tomorrow
Try: 50° 23' 17'' N 105° 32' 15'' W - - - - Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan, Canada.
Several years ago a few of us here were using Google Earth to look for RR Roundhouses. (I have lost track of the thread where it was discussed and the names of those that were exchanging info.) In another recent thread I mentioned my list and it was requested to make it available to others.
I have decided to do it in small increments. There are about 80 States/Countries in the list, some have just one entry and some have a couple dozen; at 487 entries there are too many to list all at once and have any meaningful discussion about them. So, I have decided I will just take my alphabetized list and post a group of about 20 every other day or so. It should take about a month and a half to get the whole list in this thread. After we have gone though my list, I will make the (updated and probably corrected) Google Earth KMZ file and my Excel spreadsheet available to anyone that wants them.
Please note that my fingers sometimes decide to press keys that my brain didn't select, so there may be some errors in the list (and sometimes my brain directs my fingers wrongly, too... Last night I discovered that the roundhouse I listed in "Caliente, California" is really in Nevada! Oops!).
Also, I sometimes have trouble deciding with which city the place is properly associated, so I may list a city that makes no sense to those that know the real place.
So, if you find a silly mistake, please just point it out without too much snickering or flame and I will correct my list.
If you know of more turntables, roundhouses or transfer tables, please post info about them and I will add them to my list. Please give more information than just that there used to be one in some city, I am willing to hunt for a new place using Google Earth, but try to give some more detail about where it was, like; the direction from the center of the city/town, bounding streets or other landmarks, etc. If I can find specific evidence on Google Earth of where it existed, I will add it to the list, otherwise it will have to just exist on your personal list.
I will list the State/Country, City, Lat and Lon.
If you highlight the Lat,Lon here and type Ctrl-C, then go to Google Earth, click in the "Fly to" text box in the Search tab, then type Cntl-V and click the magnifying glass icon (or type the Enter key), Google Earth to take you to that location, and you can zoom in or out to your liking.
Also, note that Google Earth is constantly updating the images, but has a feature called Historical Imagery where you can view the older images. Some of the places I have found are now parking lots, interstate highways, other buildings or even farm fields, but if you use the Historical Imagery feature you will find what I did a few years ago. (The Historical Imagery icon is the clock icon in the toolbar at the top of the Google Earth window [7th from the left]. Just click it and a slider bar will appear that you can drag to the left to see the older images.)
Here is the first 25 in my list:
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