Thanks for your posts, John & Jeff. New info. (To me at least!)
In yours John, there’s employee Art Pearson quoted as saying he personally turned locomotives in the engine house. And Mac Poor has employee Ray Morton who said there never was one. I think it’s pretty certain now that there was a table, at some point, it’s boiled down maybe to when it came and went.
Jeff, yeh that facility list sure has some handwritten notes on it. I didn’t see a date for it? Off hand the original printing of it looks to be what Mac Poor used in his book. The notes seem to be a combination of corrections, and also updates. Eg the frame bunkhouse and telegraph office being built at the tunnel. So some of it is pre-fire, corrected to facilities post-fire.
Rick Steele’s list of the 1893 inventory is very cool. [
c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com] On pg 12 a turntable is listed at Alpine Tunnel, but keep reading on pg 13 to see that one is also listed for St. Elmo. I doubt very much there were two, so I’m going with the info that the St. Elmo table was moved to the tunnel in/around 1890. The clerk in the office who compiled the inventory never did an actual personal inspection of all the facilities, but was assembling it from records from various dates/sources he had in hand.
And that old thread is really really neat. Even just 10 years ago seems like pioneer days. I see Bill Gould’s story of Bob Richardson hiding the harp switch stand, and his friends later rescuing it. Very glad they did! And the date on the Loop turntable is 1882, right from the beginnings of the railway. What a super relic!!!!!!
Cheers,
Ralph