I recently came across this 77-year-old aerial photograph of my old stomping grounds in the western suburbs of Milwaukee. This particular picture caught my attention. I knew the Chicago and …

Roundhouse-shaped locomotive servicing structures largely vanished from the railroad scene decades ago, particularly on Class 1 railroads. Supposedly this was because, while their shape was …

The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum (AoSRM) in Sugarcreek, Ohio, is pleased to announce that after a year and a half of planning, the construction of a new, 10-stall roundhouse has begun.

Grab some of the former GN/BN/BNSF Interbay roundhouse while you are at it too. The 20+ locomotives remaining there, many of which were in good working order or there for minor repairs or inspections …

The Baltimore Streetcar Museum has received $165,000 in city funding for its project to develop a new campus at a former Maryland & Pennsylvania roundhouse near its current location. More …

Dec 78 On the PRR New York-Chicago line about mid-way across Ohio is the small town of Crestline. In 1918-1920 a large roundhouse, yard and shops were built to replace smaller older ones. The last …

I recently came across another photo of the Bakersfield roundhouse in 1956 in the Jeff Moreau collection at the Southern California Railway Museum, and sure enough, half the locomotives are …

The only steam engine that I remember in the roundhouse was the one below. Currently at California State RR Museum Sacramento. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 1010 Baldwin 1901 2-6-2 Pulled …

On April 29, 1984, I took this pic of the B&O roundhouse from aboard a Piper Tri-Pacer which a high school classmate of mine was piloting. Helpers were still in use on the Metropolitan Subdivision …

Mystery solved. Google street view to the rescue. I had a photo of a mystery roundhouse, with no clue of its location. The photographer spent a couple formative years in Canada, so I thought maybe it was …