Roundhouses and Turntables (and transfer tables)

[MossRoad]

OH, Dennison, RH and TT foundations
 40°23'22.23"N  81°19'32.05"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=40.3908&lon=-81.32597&z=16

[MossRoad]

PA, Harrisburg, Rutherford Yards RH and TT foundations visible 1993
 40°15'41.31"N  76°46'56.90"W

No topo confirmation, but its pretty clear.

[MossRoad]

PA, Harrisburg, RH and TT visible 1993
 40°16'42.49"N  76°53'4.01"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=40.2783&lon=-76.88494&z=16

[MossRoad]

NY, Buffalo, TT and RH location 1995 may be visible... I don't know. Topo says its there. I'll defer to your judgement.

 42°51'49.24"N  78°50'52.97"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=42.8626&lon=-78.84796&z=16

[MossRoad]

They're getting fewer and farther between to find now... 

IL, Paris, RH and TT foundations
 39°36'35.61"N  87°42'58.61"W

 

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=39.6094&lon=-87.71644&z=16

[Semper Vaporo]

I think there are 1087 in my list at present, with several in this forum thread from MossRoad that I have not gotten to yet.

I am still adding sites from LokshuppenGER's list for the Non-U.S. site list... it is rapidly approaching the U.S. list in size... I am shocked at the number of sites in some European countries!  I think some far exceed the U.S. in sites per area (like there are 312 in Germany!)

I have been waylaid by the loss of my access to the on-line storage space, but that may have been resolved, so I am back working on the lists again.  Still it is slow going!  It is amazing how many there are/were and I am pretty certain I am no where close to how many there really have been.  So many are just barely an outline on the ground in old aerial images and are now replaced by office buildings, parking lots and even plowed over farm fields (yet some of the outlines in the dirt are still discernable during certain seasons of the year).

I'll be uploading new files in a week or two.  (hope hope hope!).

[tree68]

So, how many roundhouses/turntables have you "collected" for the US so far?

Probably surprise all of us - even though we know there were many.

[MossRoad]

OH, Ansonia, RH and TT foundations
 40°12'38.43"N  84°38'37.73"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=40.2109&lon=-84.64365&z=16

[MossRoad]

Found three more around Chicagoland...

IN, Hammond, RH and TT foundations
 41°37'53.96"N  87°29'17.58"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=41.6307&lon=-87.48664&z=16

 

IL, Chicago, The Bush, RH and TT foundations
 41°44'18.14"N  87°32'36.55"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=41.7397&lon=-87.54015&z=16

 

IL, Chicago, Glenn, TT and RH foundations V2002
 41°48'13.10"N  87°46'42.21"W
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=41.8046&lon=-87.77655&z=16

[MossRoad]

MN, Duluth, Fairmont, RH visible 1997
 46°43'57.84"N  92°11'11.04"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=46.7327&lon=-92.18623&z=16

[MossRoad]

MN, Virginia, TT and RH Foundations Visible 2013
 47°31'0.91"N  92°33'48.04"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=47.5159&lon=-92.56260&z=16

[MossRoad]

MN, Bemidji, TT and RH foundations 1991
 47°27'46.76"N  94°51'15.00"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=47.4625&lon=-94.85464&z=16

[Semper Vaporo]

Whew!  Got G.E. back to runing at a more normal speed.  On their web site they list that they made some changes to the default setup, so I clicked on "Tools | Options" and noted that the "Graphics Mode" was set as "OpenGL".  I changed it to "DirectX", and clicked "OK".  I had to terminate the program and restart it and that seems to have fixed the extremely slow updating.  So I am back to transcribing LokschuppenGER's massive and excellant additions to my non-US lists... WOW!  Lots of good sites!

 

But it is still going to take me a while!  :-)

[Norm48327]

MossRoad

TX, San Angelo, RH and TT foundations 31°26'43.98"N 100°26'17.38"W

1957 topo map says that was ATSF.

[MossRoad]

TX, San Angelo, RH and TT foundations

 31°26'43.98"N 100°26'17.38"W

There was a big hole it Texas where something should be! 

[NorthWest]

They just autoupdated the program again. Not sure I like the new look, but at least everything still seems to work the same.

[Semper Vaporo]

I am still working on transcribing the new "non-U.S." list LokshuppenGER provided.

Just the last week or so, Google Earth has become very sluggish.  Takes 10 to 20 seconds to load images as I zoom in and out to view each site as I add them.  It seems to be associated with the network response time in fetching the photo images of the earth.  Moving items in the lists is still as fast (or slow, depending on your viewpoint!) as it ever was, but shifting to a new location occurs as fast as always, but then all I have is a blurry image for 10 seconds before the images begin download.

I don't know what happened.  I have not made any changes to my setup (that I know of).  It might be a problem with something MS did in an update to Winders or maybe G.E. had an update that screwed-up something, or something has been corrupted on my system.  But it is a real PAIN to work with GE now.

I will keep working at it, but it is now a VERY slow process.

 

[MossRoad]

WI, Neenah, RH and TT Visible 1992
 44°10'30.71"N  88°28'15.42"W

 

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=44.1750&lon=-88.47067&z=16

 

[MossRoad]

MT, Forsyth, TT and RH Foundations V2017

 46°15'45.51"N 106°40'54.68"W

 

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=46.2620&lon=-106.6820&z=16

[LokschuppenGER]

OK, im sorry for that, my fault, im using NoScript and AdBlock (both addons for my browser) to avoid stuff like that...

thos link should be better

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ef2uh9u7ypw82ga/

[Semper Vaporo]

Sorry... I am unable to download your latest link.  It keeps trying to install a different browser... I tried several times.  The last time the whole system went nutz telling me I had a serious virus and that Microsoft was going to disable my PC if I didn't call them right away... no way to get out of the loop it was stuck in...

 

I KNOW BETTER THAN TO FALL FOR THAT SCAM.

I got my PC shut down and all is perfectly fine with it... that is an OLD SCAM that has been around for ages.  I will not fall for it and i sure hope nobody else falls for it either!

 

I think you should find a different storage service than what you are using.

 

 

[LokschuppenGER]

Here it is: Roundhouses / Depots & Turntables / Transfer Tables v1.020.20170124.kmz including Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, (Germany), Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (incl. asian part), Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine I change naming scheme to Continent (german - english) > Country (german - english) > [State (german - english)] > City (original name - german - english) It's possible that only the german city name is in brackets (original and english name is the same) or the english one (original and german name is the same). You have to check it yourself what the correct name you need is. http://www104.zippyshare.com/v/L7nMQW5J/file.html PS Semper Vaporo: There are some issues with some german city names in your list. I'll give you soon a list what you have to change. I have to thank you (and all others) too for publishing a list of US roundhouses / turntables. Thats why i decided to register here. Its all about giving and receiving... :)

[Semper Vaporo]

Updated the files to the latest additions. 

I have compressed all 5 files into one ZIP file so MAYBE everybody can download them all in one swell foop.

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/sempervaporo/Trainsdotcom/RR%20Roundhouses.zip

That should get you all 5 files at once for you to Un-ZIP.

 

Here are links to the individual files:

Excel file of all the data: 

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/sempervaporo/Trainsdotcom/Roundhouse%20and%20Turntables.xls 

PDF of the Non-U.S. locations:

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/sempervaporo/Trainsdotcom/Non%20US%20Roundhouses%20and%20Turntables.pdf 

PDF of the U.S. locations: 

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/sempervaporo/Trainsdotcom/US%20Roundhouses%20and%20Turntables.pdf 

 

Unfortunately, I am still unable to download the KMZ files so I have left the links out of this posting.  You will get them in the ZIP file.

[Semper Vaporo]

LokshuppenGER: Thanks for the list... sorry I have not gotten back to you sooner to say so.  I am still working my way through it, adding the new ones to my list...

WHEW!  I thought I already had a lot in my list for Germany (76) and figured your list would have lots and lots of duplicates of mine... Well... there are a FEW duplicates so far, but not many.  I am astounded at how many turntables and roundhouses there are in Germany!  Wow!  So far I have an additional: 217 and I have about another 30 to look through.

To everybody else... his list is more extensive than mine.  It includes shop buildings and other items that I am not adding to my list.  He also separated his list to show roundhouses and turntables as individual items (my list has one entry for a turntable and has a notation when there is also evidence of a roundhouse associated with it).  This makes his list much larger than mine, but gives the ability to distinguish between them.  I sort of wish I had started with separate entries, but I am way too far invested in my list to go back through it separating them.

 

Again, LokshuppenGER, Thank you for sharing your list!

 

I will finish adding things to mine and then update the files on-line for everyone else.

 

 

[LokschuppenGER]

Roundhouses / Depots & Turntables / Transfer Tables v1.000.20170115.kmz

 

This file contains only Germany, other countries following...

http://www73.zippyshare.com/v/VDVL1h4A/file.html

[MossRoad]

WI, Beloit, TT and RH Foundations Visible 1992

 42°29'28.73"N  89° 2'34.72"W

[MossRoad]

Found a 2nd foundation in
IA, Des Moines, TT and RH Foundations Visible 2000

 41°34'57.22"N  93°38'2.68"W

http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=41.5818&lon=-93.63416&z=16

[Semper Vaporo]

LokschuppenGER

Hello, i can provide coordinates of many roundhouses in europe / russia. Picture of my Google Earth collection http://imgur.com/a/ncDsU

 

 

Looks like you have many that I don't.  I would like to blend your list into mine, if you would send me either a KMZ file exported from Google Earth or whatever other format you might have.  I will start a back-channel conversation with you via this site's Messages system, so we can pick a method of sharing your files with me.  Thank you very much for your offer!

[MossRoad]

NE, Ravenna, TT and RH foundations

 41° 1'20.06"N  98°54'33.18"W

[LokschuppenGER]

Hello, i can provide coordinates of many roundhouses in europe / russia. Picture of my Google Earth collection http://imgur.com/a/ncDsU