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Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in the American Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. For questions specific to a railroad company, please seek the appropriate forum.

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 #1483979  by 57A26
 
Union Pacific still has turntables in use at Marshalltown, Boone and Council Bluffs, Iowa. They are former CNW, and except for the one in Council Bluffs, still used to turn locomotives on occasion. The one in Council Bluffs is at (and used by) the shop that maintains the business car fleet. Located at the old CNW yard on the north side of town.
 #1495632  by eolesen
 
Technically, the IRM does have a 130' turntable that was rescued from the DRGW yard at Denver, but it's only the table. There's no pit, and it's not operational... yet.

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 #1506071  by CarterB
 
New York State has done a great list of turntable/roundhouse locations on their forum.
Let's see how many midwest ones we can find, existing or previous.
Using https://mapper.acme.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; list and locate the ones you are aware of by posting the Lat Lon such as:
N 39.85897 W 88.16217 which was the C & EI Villa Grove roundhouse and turntable.
N 41.95376 W 87.93180 CMSP&P Bensenville, IL
N 40.74983 W 88.40503 WAB Forrest, IL
N 40.36476 W 87.65043 C&EI Rossville, IL
N 38.63346 W 90.15194 B&O Granite City, IL
N 41.83767 W 87.76564 CB&Q Cicero, IL
N 38.50103 W 89.14528 ICRR Centralia, IL
N 41.69786 W 87.56815 C&WI? or NYC&STL? South Deering (Chicago) IL
N 41.66790 W 87.67300 CRI&P Blue Island, IL
N 38.50101 W 89.14530 ICRR Centralia, IL
N 41.51597 W 90.41635 CRI&P Sylvis, IL
N 39.53718 W 89.30551 C&IM Taylorville, IL