Last working roundhouse in USA?

Are there any still in use? If not when was the last one demolished or put to other use?

I'm particularly interested in when it was in the USA, but any observations about other countries are of course welcome too.

Two examples in NY state:

Former PRR Roundhouse in Ebenezer, NY(south of Buffalo) still has a working turntable, and a mostly intact roundhouse.
hoewver it not being used by a railroad, it is being used by a railcar-repair company.
they do however use the turntable and roundhouse.

The only remaining Roundhouse/turntable combination still in use by a railroad, in NY state, is in use by the Long Island Railroad- Working Turntable and Roundhouse at the Morris Park Shops, Richmond Hill NY

Roundhouses of NY state:
http://gold.mylargescale.com/scottychao ... index.html

There are a lot of operating turntables withouth roundhouses..any many roundhouses still being used by railroads as enginehouses, but without a turntable..but finding both together is very rare.

Scot

BNSF's Interbay Yard in Seattle still has a large roundhouse and turntable in use.

There is of course the Brooklyn Roundhouse in Portland, Oregon, current home to SP 4449, SP&S 700 & OR&N 197. It's days are numbered though, as the steam engines are to move out for their new home in January 2012.

I'm not sure how you define "working" but the Whitefish roundhouse is still standing.

I believe it is only used for rotary plow storage and not for locomotive servicing, thus the question of how one defines "working". Interbay would be the best example.

wigwagfan wrote:I'm not sure how you define "working" but the Whitefish roundhouse is still standing.
I believe it is only used for rotary plow storage and not for locomotive servicing, thus the question of how one defines "working". Interbay would be the best example.

im not sure how you define "best"
We now have two roundhouses on the list, in use daily by an active railroad, both roundhouse and turntable,
for locomotive repair and maintenance, same purpose for which the roundhouse was originally built:

1. Long Island Railroad- Working Turntable and Roundhouse at the Morris Park Shops, Richmond Hill NY

2. BNSF - Interbay Yard in Seattle still has a large roundhouse and turntable in use.


Scot

Thanks to all so far.

Whenever a deifinition is ambiguous, err on the side of telling me about a roundhouse.

Union Pacific still has the former C&NW roundhouse and turntable in Council Bluffs, a few blocks north of the company museum. The facility is now used for the heritage passenger car program.

Minnesota Commercial still occupies and uses their St. Paul roundhouse, at Cleveland Avenue just north of the Milwaukee Road Short Line. Otherwise, the other two roundhouses in the Twin Cities are either nearly abandoned (Shoreham Yard, CP Rail) or a museum (Jackson Street, ex-GN, now MN Transportation Museum).

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge also has a fully functional roundhouse and turntable.

Ok, while not in the USA... but in North America... the TFVM still has a large (full half-circle) roundhouse at their Pantaco yards in the Tlalnepantla neighborhood of Mexico City. If it's out-of-service now, deactivation is a fairly recent event. (Ferrosur has a similar RH in Veracruz, but it's not active.)

NS still maintains a roundhouse + turntable at Bellevue, Ohio. Only used for MOW, etc., but still pretty much complete:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.2 ... 3&t=h&z=18

The DM&E has a working turntable and roundhouse in Huron SD that they use for locomotive maintenance. It is the same facility that kept the ALCo fleet alive for the CNW during the late 1960's thru the early 1980's. Matt

NS has a turntable in Altoona in use at their heavy diesel repair shop, but no roundhouse..

Also, Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA has a roundhouse complex, with some sections rebuilt and adapted to exhibit or display uses, while other sections are original to the steam era and used to maintain steam engines..

-Micah

The Wisconsin & Southern roundhouse in Janesville, WI is still very much alive and active.

D.Carleton wrote:The Wisconsin & Southern roundhouse in Janesville, WI is still very much alive and active.

Locomotive maintenance?