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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 ...
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]
This is a list of railway roundhouses. A roundhouse is a building used for servicing locomotives, large, circular or semicircular structures often located adjacent to or surrounding turntables . 1850s drawing of facade and plan of the roundhouse for Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway
An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola. This is a list of phonograph manufacturers.The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
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Unlike the turntable, roundhouse stalls could not accommodate the T1's initially. 15 stalls received a 20 foot extension in 1946, extending toward the turntable rather than outwards as per the previous stall extension. They were immediately assigned to the "Fleet of Modernism," hauling trains of new lightweight equipment, as well as standard ...
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