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The number of tracks depends on the RR and how busy and location as mentioned above.    A example is the the East Broad Top in Pennsylvania.    I think they orginally had an 8 stall roundhouse at their HQ at Rockhill Furnace (Orbisonia) PA.    They kept and serviced 6 steam engines there in modern times.    All 6 are still there and there is a gas-electric in a 7th stall.    They ran 4-8 trains a day I think in the 40s and 50s.

The PRR had 2 roundhouses and TTs in Conway near where I grew up and had many tracks on each.   They serviced a 4 track mainline with many trains a day.

Some short lines only had 1 or 2 locos and used an engine house that looked like a garage - and had 2 or may 3 tracks off the table plus the lead.

And the smallest extreme is a TT at the end of a branch with only 1 track - the lead.   It would be used to turn the loco that came to the end of the branch.

Most major mainline terminals however had many tracks.

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