Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 22, 2005

Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois, rail yards in December 1942.

A roundhouse is a maintenance facility used by railroads. Roundhouses are the large, circular or semicircular structures that are located surrounding or adjacent to turntables. The roundhouse in a railroad yard is typically where steam locomotives were stored when they weren't in use.

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