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 rotated the turntable bridge to align with the tracks leading to the assigned stall.
The locomotive with its tender entered head first so that the smokestack was positioned under the ceiling flues. To leave the roundhouse, the procedure was reversed.
Marker can be reached from Mechanic Street, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
