Any Turntables and round houses still standing?

[zinker]

<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>colbalt wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><P><img src="/trccs/emoticons/icon_smile_8ball.gif" alt="Eight Ball [8]" /><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #006400" face=Garamond color=#800080 size=5>Hey, ive been on line with google earth.  This is a satalite that you can type locations into like cities.  You can follow tracks and trains in and about lines and yards.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #006400" color=#800080 size=5>     Just zoom in.  Its not hard you use.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #006400" color=#800080 size=5>I just looked at binghamton NY on this the other day.  I found two working turntables there as it serves the ex conrail, now ns lines across the southern tier.  And the Canadian Pacific lines from Montreal thru Albany to Binghamton to Philedephia.</FONT></P></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Just remember that those Google Earth images may be several years old.

Years ago, when the Binghamton yard sat unused, I went in there and took some photos. The place was a bit of a ruin then. Perhaps the D&H or CP Rail fixed it up after they took over.

[zinker]

<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>mmartian22 wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">hi charlie i don"t have a list , but do know where three of them are. one is at the henry ford museum in detroit .the other is at steamtown . scranton pa. other one is at ansonia oh. just a turntable still being used .and another at dennison oh. i.am not sure of it though.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

When I moved to Binghamton back in 1980 or so I would visit nearby Scranton from time to time. At that time the current steamtown site was an abandoned ruin. Conrail had ripped out the turntable and sold it for scrap. All that remained was a weed filled pit. Part of the roundhouse had collapsed as well.

Somewhere in my archives I have photos of the site back then. I have to dig them out and scan them one day.

When the NPS took over one of their first acts was to find the original plans for that turntable. The original manufacturer (American Bridge Works if I recall correctly) was still in business and they reconstructed what was basically an exact replica of the original. I believe the only change was to add handrails for safety.

For those of you who have not seen the site before and after the restoration, it would be hard to believe the change.

[colbalt]

Hey, ive been on line with google earth.  This is a satalite that you can type locations into like cities.  You can follow tracks and trains in and about lines and yards.

     Just zoom in.  Its not hard you use.

I just looked at binghamton NY on this the other day.  I found two working turntables there as it serves the ex conrail, now ns lines across the southern tier.  And the Canadian Pacific lines from Montreal thru Albany to Binghamton to Philedephia.

[Renegade1c]

The originall Roundhouse in Como, Colorado is still standing. They have been renovating it. Also there is one in Leadville.  It has lost its turntable but the roundhouse is still standing and is used. Also the largest active turntable I know of is in Cheyenne, Wyoming and still has part of its original roundhouse in use.

[barfeedbob2]

NS's Sharon Yard, in Sharonville Ohio (north of cincinnati) has a turntable that is still in place, but is non-functioning.

[Anonymous]

Huron, SD has a working turn table and roundhouse. The DME RR uses it as a engine repair shop.

[Anonymous]

Tn.Valley RR & Meusem has operating turntable at the East Chattanooga station, and one in Summerville, Ga. to rotate locomotives on excursions. ( www.tvrail.com ) kb4yrc

[trainguy21]

tacoma, wa. bnsf has an operating turntable. it sets next to D st. very open to watching us turn locomotives.

[Anonymous]

The I.C.E. still uses the turntable and roundhouse in West Davenport, Ia just off I-280. It is visible to your right just after you cross the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa on I-280

[fsm1000]

In Vancouver in Yaletown [B.C. Canada] they have the turntable and roundhouse but not working. Looks good though.

[mccannt]

The four-stall, ex-SP roundhouse at Brooklyn Yard in Portland, Ore. has an operating turntable and also houses big steam in the form of ex-SP GS-4 4-8-4 #4449 and ex-SP&S 4-8-4 #700. This is, of course, "Doyle's House of Trains", where Doyle McCormack and friends maintain the 4449 and are currently restoring an ex-ATSF/D&H PA into an NKP "Bluebird".

Several preservation groups use the roundhouse, and the outside tracks hold an eclectic collection of classic rolling stock, including an ex-GN F7A, ex-Utah Railway RSD5, ex-Amtrak F40PH (being repainted into Daylight colors!) and an ex-SP&S/LIRR FA2.

The groups are under the gun, however, as owner UP could evict them any day in order to raze the structure and remove the turntable to extend their intermodal facility here.

The preservation groups have banded together to raise funds and public awareness about the collection and to work on establishing a new shop and museum location about a mile up the UP, ex-SP main line next to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI).

The OMSI site has access to both the UP and shortline Oregon Pacific's former East Portland Traction line, an old interurban route.Just last December, the groups ran excursions along the OP line behind the 4449 and the 700 to help raise funds for the new facility, and plan to do so again this year.

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg has an ex-Reading turntable in its outside yard area.

The BNSF turntable at the Vancouver, Wash. yard was relocated there from the railroad's Hoyt Street (Portland) engine terminal after that facility closed in 1996. Hoyt Street was the site where crews refurbished the 4449 for its appearance on the American Freedom Train in 1975-1976.

[ezielinski]

The two roundhouses in Fond U Lac, WI (old SOO shops) and the one in Stevens Point, WI (now operated by CN) are still in use.  All 3 have working turntables.

[Anonymous]

The former MILW turntable outside the shops at Pigs Eye Yard (Saint Paul) is in daily use serving the diesel service area. Within 100 yards of public access, it sounds a unique horn when in operation.

[clash]

The BNSF has an active turntable and a few roundhouse stalls used by the parts dept. at their Lincoln,NE diesel shop.
I've also seen a turntable at BNSF's Gibson yard in Omaha.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by James35

Vermont Railway (Vermont Rail Systems) has a turntable and a small roundhouse in Burlington, VT.

New England Central has a roundhouse with turntable at St. Albans, VT.

I Was in the Saint Albans Roundhouse one hot evening in August 1968. I was welcomed by a CV RR employee & told to take all the photos I wanted. He then ran a GP-9 out on the Table asked if I wanted to take a spin on the Turntable. I did not have to think long on that question. We turned the table all the way around (360*) twice then ran it back in. I still have a few of the photos from that night. I was in there a good hour and had left me 8 month pregnant wife in the car. She thought I had been arrested and was very scared when I came back. Still after 38 years she still brings this up. Gee!!!! One of us was having a good time.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

The BNSF yard in Vancouver WA.has a turntable.So does the Amtrak engine facility(ex ATSF)in L.A.The ex SP Taylor shops has one,also.

I live in Vancouver and I got thrown out of the yard. I only wanted to see the turn table, No Traspassing there, which is to bad.

[SheldonLWfan]

AutoTrain has a turntable at their Lorton, VA terminal

[ezielinski]

The roundhouse in north Green Bay (old Chicago & North Western yard) is still there as of summer 2005, but the turntable has been removed. I think CN uses the roundhouse as a storage and maintenance shed.

[Anonymous]

North Creek RR in New York. Not far from Lake George. The turntable was fully restored a few years ago.

[Gunns]

Two turn tables left in New Mexico, one in Albuquerque, and one in Belen, both still in use, also a Roundhouse in Las Vegas NM owned by the city Turn table is gone though...

Gunns

[Anonymous]

Filmore and Western is putting one in last time I checked. But that was in April of 2004.

[Anonymous]

CSX has a turntable in its yard at Clifton Forge, VA

Norfolk Southern also has a turntable at their yard in Roanoke, VA. They may have a roundhouse as well.

[mitchelr]

The B & O Railroad Museum in Baltimore is roundhouse and turntable that has been beautifully restored after the roof collapse a few years back.

[Fergmiester]

THere's one TT still operating in Halifax, NS

[Anonymous]

The KCS turntable at pittsburg,KS. is out of service and has been replaced by a wye east of the turntable using the old Missouri Pacific line as one side of the wye.This is in conjunction with Watco. The backshops are empty now.

[Anonymous]

The KCS turntable at pittsburg,KS. is out of service and has been replaced by a wye east of the turntable using the old Missouri Pacific line as one side of the wye.This is in conjunction with Watco. The backshops are empty now.

[Anonymous]

The KCS turntable at pittsburg,KS. is out of service and has been replaced by a wye east of the turntable using the old Missouri Pacific line as one side of the wye.This is in conjunction with Watco. The backshops are empty now.

[topgun3208]

the B&O RR museum in baltimore has a good one. the place was recently rebuilt after a snowstorm here a few years ago collapsed the roof. In downtown baltimore

[Anonymous]

The NRHS web site listed above has round houses listed by state. The old SP, now UP, roundhouse and turntable in the Brooklyn Yard in Portland Oregon is still in operation. The roundhouse is down to 3 stalls which houses the SP daylight engine 4449 and SP&S 700. I'm not sure of the engine in the 3rd stall.
The yard is basically a container and trailer yard for UP for shipments south to California etc. and there are plans to expand the yard which would require the turntable and roundhouse be demolished. The engines would be moved to a new as yet to be determined site with access to a railroad. Roy

[Ham549]

Willimantic, CT you can find 1 there still being fixed up though.