Turntable

The hub of the roadhouse complex was the turntable. From here, tracks radiated like spokes into each roundhouse stall.

Engines returning to the roundhouse for maintenance rolled through a narrow two-track passage onto the turntable. An operator inside the control cab ...

North Creek Turntable

Most steam locomotives are designed to operate in the forward direction, although they can operate in reverse at slow speed.

Diesel locomotives can operated equally well forward or backward, but it is still desirable to orient them in a forward direction ...

Locomotive Turntable

For 103 years, beginning in 1854, a train powered by a steam locomotive pulled into the Niagara Dock. At first it only came from Chippawa via Niagara Falls and Queenston but by 1863 the line had been extended as far ...

Oviedo Turntable

The Oviedo Turntable was located on the "Dinky Line"

In October of 1890 the Osceola & Lake Jesup Railway extended its line ten miles, from Oviedo to Winter Park. This line was known as the "Coffee Pot" or "Dinky Line." ...