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In 1849, PRR officials developed plans to construct a repair facility at a town newly established for this purpose, Altoona. Construction was started in 1850, and soon a long building was completed in the 12th Street area that housed a machine shop , woodworking shop, blacksmith shop, locomotive repair shop and foundry .
Overview of Steamtown National Historic Site View of the turntable and museum. Steamtown NHS is located within a working railroad yard and incorporates the surviving elements of the 1902 DL&W Scranton roundhouse and locomotive repair shops. The visitor center, theater, technology and history museums are built in the style of and on the site of ...
The museum focuses on the history of railroad workers and railroad communities in central Pennsylvania, particularly Altoona, the Altoona Works, and the greater Pittsburgh area. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since 1998, the museum has been located in the Master Mechanics Building, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1882. [ 3 ]
A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]
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B&O Martinsburg West Roundhouse, the oldest covered turntable in the U.S., included in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops, Martinsburg, WV, NRHP-listed Norfolk and Western Railroad Williamson Roundhouse, a 21-stall roundhouse, Williamson, West Virginia , owned by Norfolk Southern Railway and used as a car shop [ 11 ]
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The power used by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway had a broader range than that of most Eastern roads of the steam era. [10] [11] From a tiny two-foot-gauge 0-4-0 switcher used in their cross-tie factory [note 17] and the eleven Brooks-built "American" style 4-4-0 engines inherited from the Rochester and State Line Railroad to the massive Alco 2-6-6-2 and 2-8-8-2 Mallets used as ...