WHERE ARE THERE ROUNDHOUSES THAT HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO HANDLE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE REPAIRS, OR SERVE AS , FREIGHT OT PASSENGER CAR REPAIR SHOPS, LIGHT RAIL REPAIR SHOPS OR EVEN ROAD VEHICULAR REPAIR SHOPS? ANY?
WHAT ABOUT OTHER OVERHAUL AND REPAIR FACILITIES, DISUSED BECAUSE OF MERGERS OR DOWNSIZING OR WHATERVER? ANY? WHO AND WHERE?
David, there’s two I’m aware of. The former Jersey Central roundhouse in Cranford NJ survives as a maintanance facility for town vehicles, and the former Colorado Midland roundhouse in Colorado Springs is a retail outlet for the Van Briggle Pottery Company, at least it was the last time I saw it about 14 years ago.
I’m not sure, but that Cranford facility could be the last surviving Jersey Central roundhouse. If anyone knows differently I’d love to hear about it.
The Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad Roundhouse in Lead, SD is now The Roundhouse Restaurant.
Good steakhouse. BTDT.
Denver RTD now occupies the former Union Pacific shops in Denver.
The PRR (Cumberland Valley RR) roundhouse in Chambersburg, PA was a flea market a couple years ago. Don’t know whether that is still the case.
Tom
Yes, still in functioning railroad use is the former CN roundhouse in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It is now the Carlton Trail Railway. This is a beautiful large solid all brick roundhouse. It was a “later” built roundhouse and turntable, hence the brick, having been constructed in 1955. You can see videos, including a flyover one, and another showing operation’s, on U Tube “Carleton Trail roundhouse”.
The CPR John St. Roundhouse in Toronto is now a brewery but CNR #6213 U2g Northern is on display there.
The local 2 stall roundhouse for the Illinois Central has been a shop/office for a junkyard for probably 40+ years. It’s now being renovated into an office for a civil engineering firm.
My list of Roundhouses, Turntables and Transfertables is not very complete as to what the Roundhouses are now, but here are some of the 100 that I have managed to list as ‘repurposed’:
Aurora IL, Restaurant (Walter Peyton’s?)
Champion, MI, Boat storage
East Chicago, IN, “Inland Steel”
Portand, ME, Shopping Center
Keene, NH, Shopping Center
Many Museums are based in Roundhouses, too.
Over 100 are listed as still in use by RR’s as Diesel or car shops.
See the Trains.com thread:
Roundhouses and Turntables (and transfer tables)
Scroll backwards from the following link to find my latest posting that lists how to get (download) my lists:
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/195380.aspx?page=13#2886892
The old NYC roundhouse at Minerva, Ohio, is buried within the complex of Machine Dynamics. You can see it in the satellite view.
Not sure if this fits your category exactly, but the former NKP Diesel House (it sits next to the still active turntable in New Haven, IN) now houses the Lake Division dispatchers.
Down in Logansport, the former PRR Panhandle car shops are still in use including the transfer table at the east end of the building.
Two-stall IC roundhouse where? PRR Panhanldle carshops, CSX or NS?
The 4-stall roundhouse in Plainville, MA is now a garage for an home heating oil company.
The 9-stall roundhouse in Hyannis, MA has been a night club for over 30 years called “Pufferbellies”.
Paul A. Cutler III
Down by the station, early in the morning
See the little pufferbellies all in a row
See the Staiton Master, turn the little handle
Puff puff whoo whoo off we go
(Must be from one of the Welsch narrow gauge towns)
The ex L&NE roundhouse at Tamaqua PA is being used as part of a factory by Magnesium Electron Powders.
The ex Reading Engine House at Gordon PA was used by a lumber company for many years before being replaced with a prefab building.
The ex LV engine house in Weatherly PA was used by a factory for many years but is now gone.
The ex North Penn Engine house in Glenside PA has been used as aparments and a garage for many years.
The ex Reading Car Shops at Saint Clair PA is being used as part of a factory.
The remains of the BayShore roundhouse owned by the Southern Pacific was recently used by drones for races in and about the verical structures which is open except for the back and side walls. The roof is gone but the upright and roof supports are still in place and the drones race around a course laid out. The local news was reporting the practice of drone racing and where they practice. This is the roundhouse that serviced Cab Forwards and GS series locomotives about sixty years ago. It can be viewed on Google.
CZ
I know of 3 more in Western Canada that survived into the 21st century, at least in part:
-CN at Calder Yard (now called Walker Yard) in Edmonton; once a 20ish-stall roundhouse now only the backshop/powerhouse section and turntable are left, the turntable is still in daily use turning diesels and the remaining section of the building is used for storage.
-CP at South Edmonton (Strathcona); originally had 10+ stalls around a turntable, 2/3 of the building were demolished and the turntable was removed after dieselization and today there are only 2 tracks inside what remains of the building.
-CN at Biggar, SK; another large roundhouse that was abandoned in the years after dieselization and went through several non-railroad uses, the last one being a turkey barn. Unfortunately it deteriorated so much (the turkey “leavings” probably didn’t help) that its structural integrity became comprimised and it was demolished a year or 2 ago.
I should also add that if one goes farther east Hornepayne and Sault Ste Marie, ON still have their indoor roundhouses (turntable under the roof too), and both are still in use for MOW equipment and light diesel repairs & storage.
B+O Roundhouse in Cleveland (W. 3rd St.) is still in use. Midwest Historical group is restoring steam and diesel engines at that facility.
Norm: The Colorado Midland RH in Colorado City is now a brewery. http://www.cmbrew.com/locations.htm …Location #2
Covington, KY - The Kentucky Central RH is part of the Duro Paper Bag plant
Las Vegas, NM = Bagged Fertilizer Warehouse (ATSF)
Phillipsburg, KS = TAMKO Roofing Products (Shingle Warehouse) (CRIP/Kyle)
Hugo, CO (UP) = ? Just stabilized and restored (Now that the THC in the water scare is over…it might morph into a museum or? http://hugoroundhouse.org/ )
Central Vermont’s White River Jct VT roundhouse served a company that rebuilt NYNH&H coaches for the MBTA in the 1980s. After sitting idle it became a tire facility, mainly serving large trucks. After it burned down in a spectacular fire a few years ago, the tire company rebuilt a roundhouse-like building on the site.
Former Northwestern roundhouse in Madison, Wi was converted into office space.