2024年11月23日 · Contains a series of architectural drawings of bridges, tunnels, grade separations, turntables, and miscellaneous on the Northern Pacific line. These drawings have been arranged by type (bridge, tunnel, etc.).

Collection of design drawings of railway turntables, 35 sheets, line drawings, some with wash. Many bear stamp 'Great Western Railway. Engineers Office, Paddington' and a 5-figure number as if from a GWR collection. Three items are lithographs depicting turntables manufactured by specific companies.

2024年9月5日 · During the 20th century most roundhouse terminals featured turntables of at least 70 feet with some as large as 120 feet or more in diameter. According to the magazine Trains, most Class I railroads of the era found that turntables of between 80 …

Turnplates were initially made of two or four pieces of wood, circular in form, that replicated the track running through them. Their diameter matched that of the wagons used on any given wagonway, and they swung around a central pivot.

The HMRS holds over 300000 drawings of railway items. Many tens of thousands have been included in the on-line catalogue and copies may be ordered via the web site.

The turntable constructed by the Nevada State Railroad Museum is built to Southern Pacific plans. 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 & Truckee, the Carson & Colorado, and the Carson & Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Co. in the ...

2016年5月24日 · Photo, Print, Drawing Railroad turntable outside the old roundhouse at the former Union Pacific maintenance facility in Evanston, Wyoming. Steam engines and their tenders would chug onto the turntable and be rotated to point to tracks leading to one or more repair and maintenance slots within the roundhouse original digital file

Old Turntable for Locomotives replica of the original, 1852 Folsom Depot, Calif. with Wells Fargo Assay office behind it, Western Terminus of the Pony Exp..jpg 4,352 × 3,264; 2.77 MB

NZR standard 70-foot turntable drawings, 11-0525. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

2025年1月12日 · The Portland Company designed the table, and we used the original drawings for our design, etc. We only made a few adjustments. The original WW&F had nearly identical turntables of this design in Wiscasset and Albion Maine. The replica is essentially the same. It will feature a 48-foot wooden queens post turntable bridge.