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	Turntable (railroad)
		When steam locomotives were still in wide use, the railroads needed a way to turn the locomotives around for return trips as their controls were not configured for extended periods of running in reverse and in many locomotives the top speed was lower in reverse motion.
		Turntables were also used to turn observation cars so that their windowed lounge ends could be oriented toward the rear of the train.
		Turntables as small as 10 feet in diameter have been installed in some industrial facilities where the equipment is small enough to be pushed one at a time by human or horse power.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/turntable_(railroad) (372 words)

	Transportation; Railroads Documentation
		Railroad yards are shown with symbols 125(A), 112.15(B), 512.6(C), or 2104.08(D) and are mapped to scale with the main line through the yard and the outermost tracks that form the perimeter shown in true position.
		Where a railroad on a bridge passes under another railroad or road as indicated by a break in the railroad on the bridge, it is necessary to collect both overpassing, on bridge and underpassing (see code 180 0605).
		Where a railroad on a bridge passes under another railroad or road as indicated by a break in the railroad on the bridge, it is necessary to collect both overpassing, on bridge and underpassing (see code 180 0602).
	www.fws.gov /data/gisconv/rr.html (1879 words)

	Steam Excursions & Turntable Updates
		The Susquehanna, another railroad in poor financial condition, was resurrected in the early 1980's by Walter Rich, president and CEO of the Delaware Otsego Corporation which ran several short line railroads in New York State.
		The turntable will be operating under its own electric power, controlled from a panel in a shed recreated from old photographs on the deck by the week of October 18, in time for the last of the six planned excursions.
		The O and W was an important early twentieth century railroad that used the Erie Railroad's facilities in Port Jervis and had its corporate headquarters in Middletown, New York.
	www.portjervisny.org /excursio.htm (1565 words)

	e-Train - TCA, Toy Trains, Train Collectors Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It is believed that the turntable was last used in 1987 until the steam excursions were undertaken by Iron Horse Rambles in the fall of 1996.
		The economic heart of Port Jervis was tied to the railroad and as the railroad declined so did the local economy.
		Railroad employees were unionized and at the top of the pay scale for skilled workers and were a critical part of the region’s economy.
	www.tcamembers.org /articles/tickets/TURNTABLE (1311 words)

	Santa Fe Turntable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This turntable was used for many years at the Santa Fe's Calwa Railroad Yard north of Malage, at the intersection of Cedar and East North Avenues southwest of the city of Fresno, CA, in Fresno County.
		The turntable was disassembled and loaded onto the two flatcars by a Santa Fe work crew and a crane from General Crane of Fresno.
		The turntable arrived in San Diego in October 1990, and after brief storage on a siding near south Harbor Drive, was taken to Campo on a special movement by the SD&IV.
	www.sdrm.org /roster/equipment/turntable/index.html (460 words)

	Erie Railroad Turntable - Salamanca, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Erie Railroad Turntable - Salamanca, NY Erie Railroad Turntable
		Atlantic and Great Western Railway, Salamanca, NY was an important point on the Erie Railroad.
		The photo was taken by the Erie Railroad and is part of the "Historic American Engineering Record" collection at the Library of Congress.
	wnyrails.org /railroads/erie/erie_sal_turntable.htm (195 words)

	Turntable (railroad) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A larger turntable in front of a roundhouse, 1909.
		In engine maintenance facilities, a turntable was usually surrounded, in part or in whole, by a roundhouse.
		In Britain, where steam hauled trains generally have vacuum operated brakes, it was quite common for turntables to be operated by vacuum powered motors worked from the locomotive's vacuum ejector or pump via a flexible hose or pipe although a few manually and electrically operated examples exist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turntable_(railroad) (441 words)

	Sacramento Valley Railroad Turntable Restoration
		I am not a model railroad person, but we found that we were both interested in local history.
		The turntable serviced the first passenger carrying railroad (SVRR) in California, and the west as far as I know; therefore, the turntable mechanism is relatively early, if not the earliest in the west.
		The discoverer of the turntable, now deceased, told me that the mechanism was essentially the same, and used many of the same parts and castings as does the the original turntables in the San Francisco Cable Car System.
	cprr.org /Museum/SVRR_Turntable_Restoration.html (402 words)

	Port Jervis Railroad Turntable
		Looking southeast, this picture shows the bed of the turntable on which engines and cars were sent to bays for repair or had their direction reversed.
		The Chesapeake and Ohio "Chessie" 614 was photographed by Doug Thornton on the Port Jervis turntable during one of the train's several visits.
		Note that the houses in front of the mountain at right also seem to still be seen in the 2005 picture shown at the top of this column.
	www.portjervisny.com /turntable.htm (239 words)

	The Silverton Railroad - A Short History
		As the founders of the Railroad held their first incorporation meetings, grand plans for the railroads future were made.
		After the Railroad arrived at the town of Chattanooga, a steep grade was required to continue up the canyon.
		The railroad was reorganized as the Silverton Railway, and all assets of the Silverton Railroad were transferred to the Silverton Railway.
	www.narrowgauge.org /ncmap/excur2_silverton_railroad_history.html (3839 words)

	Prairie Village, Herman & Milwaukee Railroad
		The railroad began with the purchase of an 0-4-0T narrow gauge locomotive purchased from Earl Grice of Mankato, Minnesota in 1969.
		A local railroad group restored the crane and it was valuable in building the 2 mile track around the village - fulfilling a dream of the village founding fathers.
		In recent years a 66 foot bridge turntable built by Chicago's Lassig Bridge and Iron Works was built into a pit in front of the new 3 stall Roundhouse and is used to move equipment to the mainline.
	www.prairievillage.org /Railroad.html (808 words)

	Chatham Railroad Museum - History
		The railroad, owned by the Town and private stockholders, was operated, under lease, first by the Old Colony Railroad Company, and later by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
		The Chatham Railroad Company was organized early in 1886 and in August of 1886 the Company was able to muster sufficient public support to carry out a plan of construction and finance.
		The depot construction was begun in June; it and the neighboring engine house (with turntable), car house, work shed, and water tower (with well and windmill) were completed in time for the grand opening, November twenty-second, 1887.
	www.chathamrailroadmuseum.com /history.htm (672 words)

	933-2840 Walthers 90'Turntable
		While large turntables over 120' long could handle the huge mainline steam engines like 2-8-8-2s, 4-6-6-4s and 4-8-8-4s, most terminals catered only to smaller locos like 4-6-2s, 2-8-0s and 2-8-2s.
		The Built-up 90' Turntable fills the bill for secondary and branch line terminals where smaller engines are serviced.
		Because of their size, many of these smaller turntables are still used to turn diesels, so this model will look at home on your steam- or diesel-era layout.
	www.cchobbies.com /hoscale/structures/walthersturntable-90.htm (234 words)

	Expedition to Corkscrew Gulch Turntable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In the world of Colorado narrow gauge railroading, nothing is quite as bizarre as the operation known as the THE SILVERTON RAILROAD.
		The area is one of the most highly mineralized in the world, and mines and mining towns were erected in the mountain valleys to tap the abundant ores.
		The Silverton Railroad is a short line but 17.5 miles long, and has the reputation of being the steepest (5 per cent.
	soapysmith.faradic.com /corkscrew/corkscrew.html (1419 words)

	Atlas Turntable 10 Degree Index Modification
		That is, the turntable's actual indexing of 30 degrees is modified by at attachment of two gears to result in 10 degree indexing.
		This model railroad project added a simple gearbox to the turning plate (moving, round disk with the embedded rails) of the Atlas TT to change its 30 degree indexing to 10 degrees and coupled the gearbox to a scratchbuilt bridge and pit.
		The installation of this project's turntable into a model railroad layout to include the entry/exit tracks, the pit wall, the addition of details to the bridge and pit, and the integration with the roundhouse and steam locomotive service areas is left to another project.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /sgratke/sgrr/trains/matt/index.htm (921 words)

	Railroad
		Railroads were soon being built in the United States with the first successful venture carrying goods from Quincy, Massachusetts to Boston in 1827.
		Initially, farmers were against the development of the railroad as the train tracks frequently ran through their property.
		Previously, the expense of transporting the iron ore to the blast furnaces in Pennsylvania where steel was produced hindered the rapid development of the mine.
	www.southeastmuseum.org /html/railroad.html (935 words)

	America on the Move \| Moving the 1401
		The locomotive was transfered from the flatbed onto a temporary track and turntable that had been assembled by Southern Railway.
		The turntable was slowly pulled around to align over the tracks in the exhibit hall.
		The locomotive was then raised, the turntable removed and the locomotive lowered onto its tracks.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/themes/story_31_1.html (506 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A railroad was to be built from Brooklyn in the west to Greenport in the east, with a steamboat ferry to Stonington, Connecticut and a connecting train to Boston.
		The turntable bridge pivoted in the center and was supported on its ends by wheels resting on a circular “pit-rail” similar to the rail found on a standard railroad track.
		Although turntables varied in length, (to accommodate even the largest locomotives), and method of operation, their function was the same: to turn a locomotive in a minimum of space.
	www.rmli.org /Pages/Grennport_History_detail.htm (2089 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - The Historic Sierra Railroad Shops and Roundhouse
		Before the highways were improved, these railroads provided their communities with the only means of reliable transportation by offering a connection to the larger national rail system.
		The turntable which serves the tracks leading into the roundhouse is the second turntable the railroad installed at this location.
		This new turntable was purchased used from the Northern Pacific Railroad and installed in 1922.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=312 (1499 words)

	Atlas Model Railroad Co. - CMR 135' Turntable Tutorial - "Finished/Pictures" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I then placed the circular turntable base on a work area and then proceeded to cut the 120 ties needed for the turntable base and rail guide from the parts board (there are many extra ties if needed).
		The next section of this kit deals with bonding the ties on the turntable base and placing the guide rail on the ties while they are not completely bonded to the turntable base.
		After the four holes were drilled in the turntable base, I use 22 gauge wire for the electrical connections.
	forum.atlasrr.com /forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=9678 (1750 words)

	Clinics - Building A Turntable
		Solder 1 wire to each rail in the Atlas Turntable floor, place the wire through the notch and glue the collar to the floor of the Atlas Turntable making sure it sits centered in the small circle you drew with the compass.
		Turn the entire assembly upside down on the workbench and glue the spacers between the turntable and the plywood sub-roadbed so you may attach the turntable to the spacers using the mounting holes provided in the turntable.
		You may put short pieces of railroad tie on the styrene to mount the rail (I used a length of small styrene painted a rusty color to “simulate” the rail.
	www.purgatoryanddevilriver.com /clinics_turntable_p.htm (1534 words)

	Sequatchie Valley Railroad
		The railroad was later extended to Whitwell in 1887 and to Dunlap in 1888.
		Before the extension of the railroad, a turntable was used at Jasper to turn the steam locomotive for its trip back down the branch to Bridgeport.
		The railroad was removed in 1942 after coal was depleted enough from the mountains to no longer warrant the operation of this line.
	www.historicsouthpittsburgtn.org /SequatchieValleyRailroad.html (827 words)

	DeskProto >> gallery >> turntable
		The original of this model turntable was built as a standard for several stations on the Roskilde-Korsor railroad (Sealand, Denmark) around 1850-60's.
		A few of these turntables are still in active service, but most have been replaced by 20 m turntables.
		The model is on scale 1:87, which is the standard railroad scale H0, with manual turning.
	www.deskproto.com /gallery/turntable.htm (699 words)

	Summerville Turntable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Tennessee Valley Railroad steamer No. 610 on Summerville's turntable at its dedication ceremony in 2003.
		The turntable operator keeps a close eye on the rails.
		The turntable is in the background on the right side of the photo.
	www.railga.com /oddend/sumturntable.html (50 words)

	City of Montpelier, Vermont: Works in Progress
		The Turntable is eligible for listing as a contributing structure on the Montpelier National Register District, entered on the National Register on November 3, 1978 and "… is a significant, rare, example of a railroad turntable".
		Although the design does not restore the turntable to a point where it could be functional, the design would not eliminate the possibility of a full restoration in the future.
		One quarter of the turntable remains in its historic condition allowing people to view the steel trusses of the track as well as the circular track around the periphery of the concrete rim.
	www.montpelier-vt.org /wip/turntablepark/index.cfm (1645 words)

	Railroad Turntable Arrives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		RAILROAD MUSEUM OF LI Much-anticipated, the arrival of the 86' locomotive turntable from the Arcade and Attica Railroad is about to become a reality.
		The Railroad Museum of Long Island (RMLI) will see the 425 mile trip end at dawn on April 5, two days after it departs from upstate Arcade, New York is here.
		The Railroad Museum of Long Island (the Museum), was founded in 1990.
	www.suffolkjournal.com /calendar/2002/Apr01.htm (314 words)

	aboutrailroad
		April 1, 2001 I built a jig and a rail bender and began construction of the B and B Railroad.
		Between April and August we brought in 450 tons of stone and 7500 railroad ties.
		In the spring of 2002 I constructed a transfer table / turntable, which was installed that summer along with a steaming bay.
	www.bbrailroad.com /html/aboutrailroad.html (290 words)

	Southern Pacific Standard "A" Frame Gallows Turntable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This basic "A" frame design was first used by the Central Pacific during its construction years in the 1860s, and similar turntables were built by the Virginia and Truckee, the Carson and Colorado, and the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Co. in the 1870s and 1880s.
		A similar SP turntable still survives today at the Laws Railroad Museum on the old Carson and Colorado line near Bishop, California.
		New turntables are being built in Folsom, Placerville, and at the Orange Empire Railway Museum, all using NSRM patterns.
	www.nsrm-friends.org /nsrm48.html (197 words)

	RailroadData.Com: Search Results
		The Folsom, El Dorado & Sacramento Historical Railroad Association (FEDSHRA) was officially incorporated on January 1, 1995, after a short period of being a chapter of the Sacramento Historical Railways and then unofficially since 1975 when the Folsom Turntable was rediscovered by Doug Hays.
		Our purpose is to educate the general public by preserving, maintaining, restoring, and recording railroad history in Folsom, El Dorado County, and Sacramento County including all areas of the Mother Lode and connecting routes with a special interest in the Sacramento Valley Railroad.
		It has been organized for the educational purposes of expanding the general knowledge of the role that railroads have played in our lives and history, with a focus on the inventions and developments involved in railroads in America and the world and the metal working and fabrication skills and techniques of this same era.
	www.railroaddata.com /cgi-bin/links/search.cgi?query=turntable&mh=25&type=keyword&bool=and (1018 words)

	Turntable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A turntable is generally a rotating platform, and may refer to:
		The increasingly skillful use of turntables by DJs to mix and scratch records has given rise to the term turntablism and has lead to professional CD players with the same capability.
		Turntable (railroad), a device used at some railroad facilities to turn locomotives or other rolling stock around, or onto one of several radially arranged rail tracks (a rotary transfer table)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turntable (170 words)

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