A couple of years ago, there was some talk of obtaining the ex-CB&Q turntable from Oberlin, Kansas for the proposed roundhouse reconstruction at Chama. I looked at Oberlin on Google Earth recently and did not see it, though there was a faint circle of about that diameter at the east end of town where it was located (north of the track). The table did not have a concrete-lined pit.
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Common sense would dictate that the shortline operating the branch would retain the table for turning snowplows on the stub-end branch, but of course common sense has seldom had a place on the railroad.
I'm wondering if anyone knows what happened to the turntable. Perhaps cut up when the price of scrap was high a few years ago?