Roundhouses and Turntables (and transfer tables)

[Semper Vaporo]

Paul_D_North_Jr

I mentioned the turntable at the Kingston shops of the Jamaican Rwy Corp. a couple years ago - July 12, 2014, at:

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/195380.aspx?page=10  

 N 17.97063 W 76.80073   (approx. - hard to see in aerials)

Looking through some personal photos from Feb. 1977, there was also a transfer table there (again, approx. - hard to see in aerials): 

N 17.97176 W 76.80151

- PDN.  

I vaguely remember looking at that 1st one and decided it was too far to the southeast... so I have one at

 17°58'22.54"N 76°48'10.14"W

Any thoughts on that?  Maybe there were 2, or maybe I just picked the wrong place.

[MossRoad]

Glad you are still kicking!  

My KMZ file went nuts on me and I spent several days getting it straightened out, and I just do the U.S. I can't imaging how many there are world-wide! 

Good luck on your book. I'll be slowing down my searches soon. Probably pick back up in fall/winter. Have a good summer. 

MR

[Semper Vaporo]

MossRoad

Hellooooo..... hope everyone is OK.

I'm still kickin'  Just spending most of my computer time working on 'the great American Novel' (a stupid piece of drivel that ran out of my mind and down to my fingertips, spilling all over my computer keyboard).  I want to get it completed and copyrighted... (Dealing with the copyright office is like asking a brick wall a question!) 

 

I am still working on transcribing the new "non-U.S." list LokshuppenGER provided and it is HUGE!  I keep feeling like I am about done, only to discover that what I thought was a short list in some country is really a short list of folders, each containing a dozen items!  I am just not able to devote as much time as in the past and it was quite disheatening when my webspace where I store the list went wonky and the company providing the service didn't seem to care and was seemingly doing nothing about it.

 

And I just discovered a turntable in Galway Ireland quite by accident while researching other things.  When I started this I would never have guessed there are this many worldwide.

[MossRoad]

MI, Lansing RH and TT foundations Visible 2005

 42°45'28.45"N  84°32'19.74"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=42.7576&lon=-84.53913&z=16

[MossRoad]

Hellooooo..... hope everyone is OK.

[mudchicken]

Mt. Morris, NY

Danville & Mt Morris RR & Erie RR(Immediately adjacent to ex-PRR Rochester Branch, shows on their R/W map (PRR vs V36.12 Sheet 38 WNY&P, formerly V2.12)

(Outline of turntable is evident) - This is right where Erie, PRR & D&MM came together on top of the old canal alignment

N 42 43' 06.92"

W 77 52' 07.67" 

No evidence of a roundhouse structure.

[MossRoad]

I've taken to going back to larger towns and using the topo maps to see if there are more than the one or two already found.... there are.

Here's a 2nd one in Wichita Falls, Texas

TX, Wichita Falls, RH and TT foundations 2013
 33°55'46.90"N  98°30'9.12"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=33.9283&lon=-98.50261&z=16

[MossRoad]

LA, New Orleans, RH pre 1998

 30° 0'26.08"N  90° 0'29.46"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=30.0067&lon=-90.00781&z=16

[MossRoad]

IL. Taylorville, RH

 39°32'13.21"N  89°18'21.23"W

http://www.american-rails.com/chicago-and-illinois-midland-railway.html

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

I mentioned the turntable at the Kingston shops of the Jamaican Rwy Corp. a couple years ago - July 12, 2014, at:

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/195380.aspx?page=10  

 N 17.97063 W 76.80073   (approx. - hard to see in aerials)

Looking through some personal photos from Feb. 1977, there was also a transfer table there (again, approx. - hard to see in aerials): 

N 17.97176 W 76.80151

- PDN. 

[NorthWest]

Well, Google has released their newest version of Earth, which is only for the Chrome browser and has vastly reduced functionality, lacking (among other things) the KML plotting features. They're still keeping the application for desktop for the time being, but I really hope they don't screw up something I have several hundred hours invested in...

[MossRoad]

And just to the east in WI, Wyeville, TT and RH foundations

 44° 1'44.31"N  90°23'12.30"W

No topo indication.

[MossRoad]

MidlandMike

WI  Tomah   43°59'15.40"N  90°30'11.56"W   RH outline

 

Nice! 

Here's the topo link to it.

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=41.7549&lon=-81.26615&z=16

[MidlandMike]

WI  Tomah   43°59'15.40"N  90°30'11.56"W   RH outline

[MossRoad]

CA, Gilroy, TT foundation
 37° 0'18.74"N 121°33'58.15"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=37.0062&lon=-121.5662&z=16

[MossRoad]

CA, Bakersfield, TT and RH Foundations v1994
 35°22'13.16"N 119° 2'15.80"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=35.3706&lon=-119.0378&z=16

[Semper Vaporo]

They are all in my queue... I'll get to them eventually... if the good Lord is willin' and the crick don't rise.

[MossRoad]

Since I declared fewer and farther between I found 17 more. Ha! 

[MossRoad]

AR, El Dorado, TT and RH foundations 1994
 33°12'0.93"N  92°40'3.09"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=33.1996&lon=-92.66752&z=16

[MossRoad]

TX, Texarkana, RH Foundation
 33°25'6.33"N  94° 2'37.40"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=33.4226&lon=-94.04510&z=16

[MossRoad]

TX, Hearn, TT 1995
 30°52'53.35"N  96°35'38.41"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=30.8819&lon=-96.59282&z=16

[MossRoad]

TX, Lufkin, RH 1995
 31°21'5.72"N  94°43'23.05"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=31.3517&lon=-94.72302&z=16

[MossRoad]

TX, Silsbee, TT and RH foundations
 30°21'8.99"N  94°11'1.96"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=30.3517&lon=-94.18293&z=16

[MossRoad]

TX, Beaumont, TT 1938
 30° 5'39.38"N  94° 7'4.01"W

[MossRoad]

NE, Lincoln, Transfer Table
 40°51'38.94"N  96°37'56.40"W

[MossRoad]

Another one in Springfield, IL... you can see the tell-tale roundhouse spokes in all photos from 1995 up to presen, although the topo map doesn't show it, I believe its there.

IL, Springfield, RH foundation
 39°48'49.75"N  89°37'50.37"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=39.8143&lon=-89.63219&z=16

 

[MossRoad]

TN, Chattanooga, RH and TT foundations 2013
 35° 1'27.45"N  85°19'24.41"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=35.0242&lon=-85.32213&z=16

[MossRoad]

I saw this little yard northwest of Memphis, TN and when I zoomed in on Google Earth, I saw what appears to be chemical tanks with shadows. But there are longer streaks along the same lines as the shadows, and scrolling back through the years the roundhouse foundation starts appearing....

AR, Marion, TT and RH foundations visible 1997
 35°13'49.47"N  90°12'19.21"W

[MossRoad]

This one's probably stretching it... if I squint I can imagine seeing the turntable foundation under that square shed! hahahaha I'll defer to your judgement. 

TN, Dyersburg, RH Location maybe visible in past years...
 36° 1'59.54"N  89°22'17.70"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=36.0326&lon=-89.37111&z=16

[MossRoad]

WV, Huntington, RH Visible 1998
 38°25'19.66"N  82°24'38.29"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=38.4223&lon=-82.41079&z=16