I came across these photos while doing some research for a project I'm working on. I have never seen a turntable inside before. This could open up a new modeling idea for the layout.

Al, that would be a neat build. Especially, near the edge of the layout with an open side for viewing.
And I thought that diesels pretty much killed the turntable. Guess not.

While it's not exactly your down-and-dirty railroad scene with plenty of "character" like I prefer, the B&O Railroad Museum also has an indoor turntable.





Here's another in Roland ID, although the photo doesn't show much detail:




Jim

The indoor turn-table at the B&O Museum is in what orignally was the Mount Clare car shop. When first built in the 1800's, passenger cars and a number of K-1 class 4 wheel cabooses were built there.

The turn-table pit area being completely decked over is original to the car shop's design. The shiny varnished finish on the turn-table and pit deck was put on when the building was made into a museum by the B&O in the 1950's.

This building was not the locomotive shop. That one at Mount Clare, long and about 4 tracks wide, was a short distance west of the car shop. It suffered disasterous fire in the mid-to-late 1950's, which also threatened the round car shop/museum building. The current structure on the locomotive shop site is a replacement.

Covered turn-tables were used on some Colorado narrow gauge lines at places where steam helpers needed to be turned around for their trip back down the hill. Turn-tables were used where there was no room to fit a wye track. Because of heavy snows, putting a roof over the turn-table and pit helped reduce the labor required to keep it clear of snow.

Ed Bommer

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.....Man, that is unusual Al. Good find

very cool! "come all you 'rounders if you want to hear"

When the Southern Pacific built the snowsheds over Donner Summit they needed a way to turn the helpers so right in the middle of the snowshed at Donner is a turntable! Russ

Lets not forget the national railway museum in England.

There is a turntable inside the roundhouse in Martinsburg, WV.
Here are a couple of links to pictures:
http://www.martinsburgroundhouse.com/PICTURES.html
Engineering drawings:
http://www.wva-usa.com/newsite/www.wvrailroads.com/draw...tinsburg-roundhouse/

Andrew Scheppler

Al..I believe that picture was taken at Hornpayne Ontario. Located in Northern Ontario, they built this back in Steam days as this location has set records for being one of the coldest places during the winter, CN built this unusual facility.