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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]
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.
Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres (25.3 ha) [2] in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). The museum is built around a working turntable and a roundhouse that are largely replications ...
Designated NHLD. June 2, 1978. The Georgia State Railroad Museum (formerly the Roundhouse Railroad Museum) is a museum in Savannah, Georgia located at a historic Central of Georgia Railway site. It includes parts of the Central of Georgia Railway: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities National Historic Landmark District.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rail transport turntables. Note: Category:Railway roundhouses, with its subcategories, has many more members than does this category of turntables (at least currently, in 2018). Probably every railway roundhouse had to have a turntable however (while there are some turntables without a roundhouse), so most ...
88003001 [1] Added to NRHP. January 5, 1989. The Conway Junction Railroad Turntable Site is the foundational remnants of what was once a major railroad junction in South Berwick, Maine. Consisting of a circular granite railroad turntable foundation and an engine house foundation, it is the only major surviving reminder of Great Falls and South ...
NRHP reference No. 77000758 [1] Added to NRHP. December 12, 1977. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Turntable in Currie, Minnesota was built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It has also been known as the Currie Railroad Turntable or the Currie Manually Operated Railroad Turntable .
A transfer table contains two tracks with different configurations. The table is moved sideways or rotated [ 3] to choose the configuration that connects the track that the incoming train will be traveling from and to. Using transfer table as a switch or a rotary switch allows the center rack rail to be aligned for the cog wheels to continually ...