Roundhouse And Turntable Facilities - Supporting Structures Needed - Inquiry

Hi again guys,

I just took another section of my layout down and put up another table. Due to the size of this one, I am going to make it my turntable, roundhouse and engine servicing facility.

I was looking thru all the pictures and diagrams and nothing really paints a good picture of what other structures would go into a 1940s era roundhouse and turntable area of a railyard. I figured a sanding facility, caboose tracks, and coaling station.

Can anyone be of any help here?

What else would be in one of these places?

By time I started railroading the roundhouses and turntables were long gone, we only had engine tracks and in one location, a sanding tower, so although my railroad experience is lengthy, my knowledge isn't!

Would not know what to do without this group, other than likely switching to BRIO for all my modeling needs. Okay that part was a joke. Not in a million years, never!

Thanks again guys!

 

Try Frisco Power by Joe Collias.

It hast the facilities shown you are looking for from the smallest to the monsters like St. Louis to Ft. Scott.

Larry

 

The roundhouse, depending on its size, could have a boiler room and machine shop attached to it along with a roundhouse foreman office.

Some facilities are dependent on locomotive fuel(s) needed. If an oil burner, an oil tank and/or standpipe are needed. If there are coal burning engines, a coaling tower and a coaling delivery track to it. Coal generates solid waste, so an ash pit and either a depressed track or ash loading machine next to it are required.

With coal fired engines, consider an ash pit and clean out tools for cleaning firebox grates. Regardless of the fuel source, there would be a water tank and/or standpipe. Locomotives need sand for traction, so there is a need for a sand drying house and a way to provide sand to engines.

Other ancillary structures could include a master mechanic or foreman's office, storeroom warehouse, grease and oil house You could include a spot with steam and hoses for washing down engines. Facilities often included an engineman locker room and wash house.

The yard office may be located near the engine servicing facilities or be out by the yard tracks. Yards also often had small crew shacks with heat where crews could warm up and rest between tasks. Scale tracks and the associated weigh house are additional possibilities.

I am sure I have forgotten something, but that is a start.

 

Willie,

Think close to home on this one.

By that I mean Neodesha Yard.

 

What would be necessary facilities for servicing oil burning steam engines?

Engines assigned to the Frisco's western regions and passenger locomotives were mostly oil burners.

TG

 

Here is a nice look at Pensacola as it was during 1927.

http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread...-RR.-Pensacola-Facilities&highlight=pensacola

This one is of Chaffee at the end of steam. The drawing show the proposed changes to accommodate the diesels locomotives. Notice the narrow gauge railroad tracks and turntable, which were used by the carmen to move parts to the repair in place (RIP) tracks.

http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread.php?543-Chaffee-AR-Roundhouses-Turntables