rgs455returns Wrote:
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> I would think this would give existing railroads
> with turntables some real chills!!
RGS455:
Years ago there was a really good article in a magazine called "Locomotive and Railway Preservation" (I believe that was the magazine) titled "One more trip". It dealt with the problems associated with turntables and how yard crews were cautious in their use. Quite often heat/cold the rails would grow/shrink and cause turntables to bind and not line up correctly. More than one railroad had locomotives fall into the pit and when that happened it quite often tied up a whole division since any locomotive inside the round house was "stranded". I read a story once of a railroad that knocked out a wall of the roundhouse and laid a track to it just to get a badly needed passenger engine out.
Years ago in Trains magazine there was a picture of a SP cabforward that had derailed on the turntable and even in the post steam era diesels would fall in also.
I wonder what happened to the hostler at Salida that failed to put a chain behind the drivers of #485?
-little stanley