WM at one time had thier main shops at Union Bridge, MD
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
NYO&W, Middletown, NY. Some of the buildings are still standing and re-purposed.
Central of Georgia: Macon, Georgia
Thanks everyone for your additions. I've always found it unusual, that with certain exceptions like PRR at Altoona and NYC at Collinwood (to give two examples), the backshops were not usually co-located with major yards.
Al Perlman made a similar observation about Western Pacific after he became its president. He noted that WP's brand-new Stockton shop was in the wrong place, it should have been at Oroville, where power was added for the crossing of the Sierras.
One I would add, the FEC Miller Shops north of St.Augustine, FL.
BackshopNYC at Collinwood
Is it kosher to post scans of photos where the original photographer is unknown? Because if it is I have arial photos of both the Collinwood and Linndale roundhouses.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Please post them and ask if anyone knows who the photgraphers are. They will then serve a useful purpose for them as well as viewers.
Penny, it would be awesome if you could share the NYC round house in cle. Not many have pictures of the facility.
Collinwood on the east side of Cleveland:
This is where the Century changed crews and exchanged mail. Because of the late hour, the train did not service the Cleveland Union Terminal.
And this was Linndale:
Which existed just a bit down the road where I've lived all my life. Too bad I never got to see it.
Here's a great place for Cleveland railroad photos: http://www.clevelandmemory.org/cut-coll/index.html. There was also the West 130th Street yard where the CUT's big P1a electrics were repaired. Not to mention the Erie, Nickel Plate and B&O facilities all over the city.
NKP-Frankfort, IN; CV-St. Albans, VT
Did St Albans actually have an erecting shop or just a big roundhouse? I was there in the 80's and just remember the RH, although something could have been torn down. I thought heavy repairs went to Battle Creek or Pte St Charles?
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