Talk:List of railway roundhouses

No Railroad Roundhouse in Point Arena
It's an indigenous Pomo native American structure, no railroad connection at all. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8g77t4qx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.231.239 (talk) 08:19, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Right, that was about the Point Arena Rancheria Roundhouse, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but which is indeed not railway-related at all. Photo and NRHP nomination document about it are available here. --Doncram (talk) 17:13, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

roundhouse vs. turntable
What is the difference between a roundhouse vs. a turntable, and are items of the latter type wanted for this list? Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable is one example listed on the U.S. National Register. All the other NRHP ones with "turntable" but not "roundhouse" in their name are: doncram (talk) 20:20, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable, El Portal, CA
 * Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Turntable, Currie, MN
 * Conway Junction Railroad Turntable Site, South Berwick, ME
 * Nevada Central Turntable, Austin, NV. The site includes foundation of a former engine house, not necessarily a roundhouse.  The engine house got disassembled and put into storage eventually.  Article was included in roundhouse categories, but I just removed those. --Doncram (talk) 23:59, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
 * New Haven Railroad Danbury Turntable, Danbury, CT
 * Rockland Turntable and Engine House, Rockland, ME


 * I believe turntables were the devices used to rotate locomotives, whereas roundhouses were the actual buildings that housed the locomotives, usually surrounding or next to a turntable. --​​ ​​D.B. talk • contribs 22:09, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Back again, nine years later. The Bagby listing is partly about its turntable, a "surviving manual or "Armstrong" gallows frame turntable, a device once common on branch and short line railroads, but now exceedingly rare, only one other being known" ( NRHP doc).  Of the Yosemite Valley Railroad.  There's no mention of a roundhouse having existed.


 * But should this be a list of roundhouses and turntables, not just roundhouses, so include the Bagby one and perhaps other turntables that might be found? --Doncram (talk) 17:18, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

List of Roundhouses or list of SURVIVING roundhouses?
This appears to be a list of SURVIVING roundhouses, but is not titled or described as such. A list of all roundhouses that ever existed would be huge. Just surviving roundhouses would be a sizable list. --Ebtrr1 (talk) 20:04, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, Ebtrr1, now it seems to be a mix, some surviving, some former sites, and many having no source or information at all about them. I think that the list should be revised/clarified to be a list of "notable" roundhouses, where "notable" means having a Wikipedia article with sources there, or being a redlink (calling for an article) or blacklink (not having an article) with inline citations speaking to the notability of the place. --Doncram (talk) 17:23, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Austria
There seems to be a roundhouse in Salzburg, right near the main railway station, and it looks as though it's still in use, albeit not for steam locomotives. Does anybody know anything about that? Have a look: 47.81726°N, 13.04642°W. Kelisi (talk) 16:03, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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Railway engine workshops, not round
Hey, the Stewartstown Engine House, Stewartstown Railroad in Pennsylvania is in Category:Engine houses and seems to be a dedicated building for working on railway engines. But it is not a roundhouse, it is not round, it is just a building over one straight section of track. Should this and/or any other railroad workshop buildings be added to this list? Perhaps requiring a list name change. I am thinking not, and leaving it out for now. --Doncram (talk) 21:43, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

There is also The Engine House, Shropshire, England, a museum which has multiple railway engines, but with no mention of roundness, seems like no roundhouse present. And there exist numerous railway museums (Category:Railway museums) having some engines but no roundhouse. --Doncram (talk) 21:48, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

NRHP items, info added, October 2018
Following are notes from temporary work section for U.S. NRHP information that was temporarily in mainspace, about Hits on "roundhouse" (after deleting AK, CA, VT ones which are not railway-related)
 * NRHP ones to be merged into state sections below (i.e. into the state-by-state subsections)
 * Hot Springs Railroad Roundhouse, Malvern, AR, NRHP-listed covered below
 * Southern Pacific Railroad Bayshore Roundhouse, Brisbane, CA, NRHP-listed covered below, article expanded
 * Midland Terminal Railroad Roundhouse, Colorado Springs, CO, NRHP-listed covered below
 * Como Roundhouse, Railroad Depot and Hotel Complex, Como, CO, NRHP-listed covered below
 * Connecticut Valley Railroad Roundhouse and Turntable Site, Old Saybrook, CT, NRHP-listed covered below
 * Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Roundhouse and Locomotive Shop, Aurora, IL, NRHP-listed covered below
 * Hollins-Roundhouse Historic District, Baltimore, MD, NRHP-listed. NRHP doc is extremely slow to load. Does not to include the roundhouse for which it is apparently named, now the B&O Railroad Museum, adjacent to the district, which is covered below anyhow.
 * Kansas City Terminal Railway Company Roundhouse Historic District, Kansas City, MO, NRHP-listed now covered below (link to new article added)
 * AT & SF Roundhouse, Las Vegas, NM, NRHP-listed now covered below (link to new article added)
 * Chicago and North Western Roundhouse, Huron, SD, NRHP-listed now covered below (link to new article added)
 * Union Pacific Roundhouse, Turntable and Machine Shop, Cheyenne, WY, NRHP-listed covered below

Additional items in Category:Railway roundhouses on the National Register of Historic Places
 * Georgia State Railroad Museum, Savannah, GA was covered below as Roundhouse Railroad Museum
 * Two Brothers Roundhouse, Aurora, IL covered below
 * Roundhouse ruins at Conway Junction Railroad Turntable Site, South Berwick, ME, NRHP-listed added to below
 * B&O Railroad Museum, MD covered below
 * The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI covered below, now as Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Roundhouse
 * Nevada Central Turntable, Austin, NV, NRHP-listed, includes foundation of a former engine house, not necessarily a roundhouse, although categorized as roundhouse. Removing categories, noting at Talk, not including below.
 * Bartlett Roundhouse, NH, NRHP-listed added link below
 * Santa Fe Railway Shops (Albuquerque), NM added item below: at least there once was a roundhouse there, current status unclear
 * Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops, WV covered below, note added about being the oldest covered one in U.S.
 * Wyoming Transportation Museum, Cheyenne, WY covered below, with Union Pacific Roundhouse, Turntable and Machine Shop
 * Union Pacific Railroad Complex (Evanston, Wyoming), roundhouse with 27 stalls built in 1912, NRHP-listed covered below

Additional hits on "turntable", as there will usually/often have been a roundhouse at any turntable. Should list be changed to cover roundhouses and turntables?
 * Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable, El Portal, CA -- has a rare turntable, no roundhouse. Mentioned as issue now at Talk.
 * New Haven Railroad Danbury Turntable, Danbury, CT, NRHP-listed. Turntable, no mention of roundhouse.
 * Rockland Turntable and Engine House, Rockland, ME, NRHP-listed includes roundhouse; added categories to article & added link below
 * Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Turntable, Currie, MN, NRHP-listed. New article.  There is mention of a roundhouse but no evidence vs. possibility of merely a single engine train shed.  I just put into turntable category, but not roundhouse categories.
 * Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable, Oyster Bay, NY, NRHP-listed. Turntable, no mention of roundhouse.

Also check all contents of Category:Engine houses Done. This added the Belt Railroad Engine House and Sandhouse, San Francisco, CA, now covered below. --Doncram (talk) 16:39, 27 October 2018 (UTC)