Is this the old Skaneateles Short Line roundhouse?

https://goo.gl/maps/swKxkQmTb3k

The white building.

One source says the engine house was on Fennel Street in Skaneateles.

http://skaneateles.org/rr_depot.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Another says Mottville, which may have been later on:

http://gino.cdfw.net/_railpage/SSL/maps.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The second enginehouse was this structure on Sheldon Road.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9797973 ... 312!8i6656" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Appears in the most current Google satellite views it's been added on to.



The original enginehouse, a square wood frame building, was on Fennel Street where the Tops Grocery Store is.

Thanks. The one I noted has that "portion of a circle"-shape old roundhouses have.

nydepot wrote:Thanks. The one I noted has that "portion of a circle"-shape old roundhouses have.

It don't look circle shape to me. just an odd shaped extension building that are limited to property line.

The original one may had spur going along by this building. extension building may had added after RR has been gone.

I drove by it and wondered. It's like a 3-door chunk of a roundhouse. Made of block. No 90-degree angles.

sd80mac wrote:

nydepot wrote:Thanks. The one I noted has that "portion of a circle"-shape old roundhouses have.

It don't look circle shape to me. just an odd shaped extension building that are limited to property line.

The original one may had spur going along by this building. extension building may had added after RR has been gone.

Looking at the stuff on HistoricAerials, I doubt it. That street has been on that alignment since at least 1899 and there's the creek behind the building. No room there for a roundhouse.

They never had a roundhouse or a turntable anywhere on the railroad. The original enginehouse - a nice slide of it recently sold on eBay and you can still grab the image - was just like a large barn with three tracks going into it, side by side.

I don't think there even was a wye at Hartlot, just a connection that was facing point for westbounds.

NYCSyracuse81 posted some Rome pictures in another topic and while searching through that webpage I found these pictures of the engine house.

http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 48/rec/246" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 88/rec/300" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 49/rec/105" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 50/rec/106" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There are tons of Skaneateles Short Line images of industrial switching and the junction with New York Central if you dig around on that page too.

You can place those shots in Google Maps Street View along Fennel Street next to the Tops store, the tan-ish brick structure with the small windows in the background is still present.

Nice pics in Brockway's links, altho the loco masked off for painting is #6, not #7 as captioned. Why is it so hard for someone, presumably a railfan, to get something so obvious, correct?