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An engine house is a building or other structure that holds one or more engines. It is often practical to bring engines together for common maintenance, as when train locomotives are brought together. Types of engine houses include: motive power depots (MPD), where locomotives are stored and maintained. Buildings that housed a steam engine on a ...
The only roundhouse still in use as a locomotive servicing facility by the same railroad that constructed it is the Long Island engine house in Queens, New York. The largest surviving roundhouse by interior square footage is owned and operated by the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina.
Belt Railroad tracks passing the Engine House in 1987, during a streetcar demonstration service that used the freight tracks for a short time. The property comprises the block bounded by Lombard St., Sansome St., and the Embarcadero. It was designed and/or built by Newman, Freeman & Alden.
The Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W; reporting mark PW) is a Class II railroad operating 612 miles (985 km) of tracks in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as New York via trackage rights. The company was founded in 1844 to build a railroad between Providence, Rhode Island, and Worcester, Massachusetts, and ran its ...
The Collie Roundhouse in Collie, Western Australia is rundown and not in use. The Lachlan Valley Railway is based at Cowra roundhouse. Pacific National use the remains of the roundhouse at Werris Creek. Gemco Rail use the roundhouse at Parkes, New South Wales. The roundhouse at Casino, New South Wales still stands although currently out of use.
Motive power depot. A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds" or just "sheds". Facilities are provided for refuelling and the replenishing of water, lubricating oil and grease ...
The Bartlett Roundhouse, also known as the Bartlett Engine House, [2] is a historic railroad service facility in Bartlett, New Hampshire. Located just south of United States Route 302 and east of Pine Street, it consists of a multibay service building and the remains of a 56-foot (17 m) railroad turntable which provide access to the service ...
Coordinates: 41.06797°N 75.77358°W. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Engine House is a former railroad repair shop at 99 Towanda Street, White Haven, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1889 as a more permanent structure for the repair shop belonging to the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and now serves as a community library.