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Miles
Crew Chief
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 Posted - 02/24/2008 : 6:06:10 PM
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I don't mean locomotives.
What can be found inside a Steam-Era Roundhouse?
What else? Shelves? Machine tools? Oil drums? What?
Please Post photos if you can, model or Real. |
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rfmicro
Crew Chief
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 6:37:33 PM
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| Inspection pits, maintenance stands and elevated walkways, cabinets (resin), tables with tools (resin) and lots of lights. You may also want to consider a separate machine shop with belt driven equipment, donkey boiler and belt driven steam motor to run the overhead belt system, little people. |
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2008 : 7:29:07 PM
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| Rick had posted a few pictures from inside a real roundhouse. I'll see if I can find it. |
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Rusty Stumps
Fireman
USA
8005 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 7:47:36 PM
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| Heavy overhead cranes in many plus smaller lighter duty cranes. |
Walt
In the Crossroads of America. |
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
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belg
Fireman
USA
4503 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 8:00:46 PM
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Miles, here's a link http://www.orhf.org/property/roundhouse/index.html to a more modern version but you could still get a ton of ideas from in there.Air compressor, extra wheelsets, torch/welding equip,wheel grinder, lathe drill press,
http://tiny.cc/poSdn This is a search I did for you on the library of congress.
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Rick
Administrator
USA
24499 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 8:25:27 PM
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These the ones you were thinking of Bruce?
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Edited by - Rick on 02/24/2008 8:25:55 PM |
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Marken
Fireman
USA
2972 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 8:52:21 PM
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Is this the one Bruce?
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In memory of Mike Chambers |
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desertdrover
Engineer
USA
16151 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2008 : 11:07:01 PM
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Photo from Inside Altoona Roundhouse. |
Louis
Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast
Post count: 5000 posts added to below count.
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Thorn Creek and Western
Fireman
USA
2456 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2008 : 12:14:06 AM
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Inside the East Broad Top shops:
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railmus
Fireman
Canada
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
33512 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2008 : 08:46:04 AM
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Rick & Ken,
Yup, between the two of you, those are the pictures I had in my aging mind.[:-thumbu] |
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jbvb
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 02/25/2008 : 2:34:10 PM
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| Black floors and other surfaces (soot) have been a feature of every working steam enginehouse I've been in. |
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Miles
Crew Chief
514 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2008 : 4:59:03 PM
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| Thanks a ton you guys, not I can detail the inside of my roudnhouse with confidence! I'll post a thread sometime soon with the progress. |
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Larry Baker
Fireman
USA
1605 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2008 : 01:25:50 AM
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| Great photos. So many wonderful thing to see in a roundhouse. |
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CVSNE
Crew Chief
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 08:53:43 AM
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Thanks for the photos they look great. Interior pictures of roundhouses - other than railroad publicity shots - are kind of tough to come by -- most likely since these were poorly lit and full of all kinds of beams, pipes, and the like that would play hell with lighting them for a photograph.
You asked about adding "oil drums" to the interior - notice there aren't many of them (any I could see at first glance) - most railroads had small outbuildings (normally brick) near the roundhouse that was used to store flammables (oil, paint, and the like). This was especially true in the case of a wood house, but you'll notice few if any large scale storage of combustibles in any photos of steam-era roundhouses.
Marty
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Marty McGuirk
Manassas, VA
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What can be found inside Roundhouse?