Surviving Roundhouses?

There is a former Great Northern RR round house in St. Paul, MN.  It is called the Jackson Street Roundhouse. It is now some kind of museum.

This is located in Rochester, NY. Originally built by the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh and later the B&O. Darker ballasted tracks above are the CSX mainline orginally New York Central. The lighter track at the bottom was the B&O, now Rochester Southern. The turntable has been moved about twenty miles south to the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. http://www.rgvrrm.org/

 

 

Pete

The D&H roundhouse at Oneonta, NY was still in existence when I was last there sometime in the early 1990's.  The company I was working for at the time stored potash in one of the bays of the roundhouse.  A local fertilizer dealer owned the building and some surrounding property and operated his business out of that location.

 

Curt

In San Francisco there is a 5 Bay Engine house still at the corner of Sansome and Lombard,  South of Pier 39. My father has a condo there and I remember it was still active when I was a kid. It is now a strip mall, but the look remains

 

Check it out here http://g.co/maps/axvcy

Google shows only remains now.

 

See here. http://g.co/maps/8duvy

Denver and Rio Grande Western roundhouse in Durango Co is still active on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

http://crestlineroundhouse.org/modern.htm

 

Here are some older "modern" shots of the Crestline facility.  It's a real shame that they let this become this...

Colorado Springs Co.

 

US 24 Cimmaron St. & S, 21 st St. is what appears to be a roundhouse without turntable or tracks.  I tried two different mapping tools, obtained aerial view but could not save to post.  Perhaps someone else can post pix and provide any info.

 

mikeg

Choochoo Denn:

 

Thanks for posting the link to that photo!  Sad that they tore it down.  I recollect that it had two extended bays to handle the D&H articulated 4-6-6-4's.  Looking at the photo, they must have been on the end closest to where the buildings are now.  The turntable pit was still there back then too, although they had partially filled it in, for safety reasons, I guess.

 

Curt

These pictures are pretty crappy, but the roundhouse in downtown Toronto still survives.  It's right next to the baseball park.

 

 

 

I, accidently came across the roundhouse, while looking for Steam Whistle Brewing.  Turns out they are located in part of the old roundhouse!

 

Yes it is quite the place, and the food was excellent. Glad to see an aerial shot.

Not to change the subject, but the Communipaw Station roundhouse of the CNJ in Jersey City, n.j was 88 stalls when built in 1901. No pictures. But below is a picture of the Mott Haven CNJ roundhouse type,  "warehouse". 

Here are some of the Como, CO C&S roundhouse I took in 2006:

Manly, Iowa roundhouse (former Chicago-Great Western), near the Iowa Northern Railroad. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also nearby is an old turntable, now basically a swamp-like pond. Still in place, though

 

Just remembered; there's part of a Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada. Most of the refurbished stalls are rented out for parties, etc., however one stall contains a cosmetically restored CP 4-4-0 engine:

It's been several years since I've been there, but I think the W&LE roundhouse is still standing in Brewster, Ohio. A quick look at Google Earth didn't show it, though. I guess I'll just have to do a drive by. 

Brewster, Ohio, south of Massillon, is farther west than I would have GUESSED the Wheeling and Lake Erie ran, which I thought was to Cleveland area?  Did the

W&LE run to Toledo, maybe?  Are there any structures/other evidence of the W&LE in the Wheeling area?  And while reviewing the map, I noticed a Conneaut Historical Railroad Museum?  What all is there up in this far northeast corner of Ohio?

Here in Vermont we have the Vermont Railway H.Q. in Burlington:

 

AAnd the New England Central roundhouse in Saint Albans:

Both are still in everyday use, and relatively accessible with a good camera.

 

Jon 

The deteriorating hulk of the Lehigh Valley roundhouse at the Manchester(NY) yards:



Here is the view including the real estate that included the Manchester yards - the Ontario Central(operated by the Finger Lakes Railway) has the single track through the now open area:

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago & North Western roundhouse and turntable at Council Bluffs, Iowa still stand and now owned by Union Pacific.

I think the Hall shop roundhouse of the Union Railroad in Monroeville is still in operation.  Tough to get a pic of it as the public area around it is quite overgrown.  It was definitely in operation less than 8 years ago.

I know that the W&LE depot still stands in Kent, Ohio. It is now a feed store, and the current W&LE tracks run next to it. The W&LE yard in East Akron is visible from I-76 and it's possible to see the TT and engine house/repair shop. Not counting the 4-story office building in Brewster (Brewster's only skyscraper), those are the only structures I know of for sure that are still standing. There are probably others, though.  W&LE ran to Toledo over Big 4 trackage. 

Here are few that I took at Steamtown in Scanton this past February.

There is a four stall wooden Boston and Maine roundhouse in North Conway NH used by the tourist RR there.

There is a Rock Island roundhouse that still stands in Malvern, Arkansas.I remember seeing it in the late 90's and again about 7-8 years ago.Here is a link: http://www.trainweather.com/malvernroundhouse.html  there are lots of photographs.

I may have to check it out next time I'm in Arkansas visiting family.