After a lot of searching, sleuthing, posting and input from some of you on here, I was able to piece together a comprehensive list of roundhouse and turntable remains in ME, NH and MA. So thank you thank you -- to anybody who posted some input--it was very helpful. Special thanks to Rick Oliver!
I have notes left over from that work--notes on rh's and tt's that I either could not locate or maybe even invented a memory of. So here is where this could get fun if you like digging!--or maybe not so much, but I'd like to close the books on ME, NH and MA and I'd like some help doing it.
I'll just post the ones I'm struggling with and see what we can come up with- -if anything. Most of these notes are from posts on here or things I heard and I might be pretty flat out wrong, so let me know if you can.
ME:
Standish/Sebago: (this one may even be in Windham) I remember someone on here posting that the TT is "near the boat launch and is fenced off" due to the lake watershed----thats everything I know. I went there myself and found a weird concrete foundation near the lake/beach, but I'm pretty sure its not rail related. I also looked on old maps and saw the rail line went right near the lake in Standish so its gottah be there, but no RH showed on the map. I'm pretty confident this one DOES exist within just a few hundred feed of these coords: 43.762710, -70.524459. Please help.
Windham: (this may be same as above) I heard something somewhere and wrote the following note: "now under a parking lot for an Ice cream bar"---yea thats vague, but its all I got.
Caribou: This is a real problem. I was kindly given coordinates to two locations of two separate "old roundhouses"--the first I was able to locate easily, the second set was given to be thus: 46.857875, -68.003795. There is a building near the tracks just south that appears roundhouse-like, but other than that, there is nothing at that location. Was it removed? I'm pretty sure it was there at one time.
NH:
Rochester: has anybody been out to this one? I have the coord here at: 43.298618, -70.973037 Pretty sure its there, in or part of the parking lot, but not sure there is much left if anything.
MA:
Boston: I know Boston has had at least two roundhouses in its day (not including the one still standing in Revere). I've looked at each location and found no remains. I find it hard to believe that Boston has NOTHING left. Is there anything left of a rh or tt? Also, Boston has a train barn with like 25 stalls or something. Not sure if that should be on any list though.
Somewhere: I am searching for the location of a transfer table that I saw somewhere in ME, NH or MA. I have the ones from Derby, Mt Washington and Waterville, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I saw this transfer table!
Lastly: if there is any rh or tt that is really unknown, feel free to post it- -if its in ME, NH, MA or VT, then I probably have it down, but post it anyway- -the harder to find the better.
Ok, that about does it. I know this is really vague stuff- -maybe even seeming pointless. However these last notes feel real untidy. I need some help on this one--especially with that darn Standish location!
Thanks again for the posts, any little clue would help.
-Russ
I have notes left over from that work--notes on rh's and tt's that I either could not locate or maybe even invented a memory of. So here is where this could get fun if you like digging!--or maybe not so much, but I'd like to close the books on ME, NH and MA and I'd like some help doing it.
I'll just post the ones I'm struggling with and see what we can come up with- -if anything. Most of these notes are from posts on here or things I heard and I might be pretty flat out wrong, so let me know if you can.
ME:
Standish/Sebago: (this one may even be in Windham) I remember someone on here posting that the TT is "near the boat launch and is fenced off" due to the lake watershed----thats everything I know. I went there myself and found a weird concrete foundation near the lake/beach, but I'm pretty sure its not rail related. I also looked on old maps and saw the rail line went right near the lake in Standish so its gottah be there, but no RH showed on the map. I'm pretty confident this one DOES exist within just a few hundred feed of these coords: 43.762710, -70.524459. Please help.
Windham: (this may be same as above) I heard something somewhere and wrote the following note: "now under a parking lot for an Ice cream bar"---yea thats vague, but its all I got.
Caribou: This is a real problem. I was kindly given coordinates to two locations of two separate "old roundhouses"--the first I was able to locate easily, the second set was given to be thus: 46.857875, -68.003795. There is a building near the tracks just south that appears roundhouse-like, but other than that, there is nothing at that location. Was it removed? I'm pretty sure it was there at one time.
NH:
Rochester: has anybody been out to this one? I have the coord here at: 43.298618, -70.973037 Pretty sure its there, in or part of the parking lot, but not sure there is much left if anything.
MA:
Boston: I know Boston has had at least two roundhouses in its day (not including the one still standing in Revere). I've looked at each location and found no remains. I find it hard to believe that Boston has NOTHING left. Is there anything left of a rh or tt? Also, Boston has a train barn with like 25 stalls or something. Not sure if that should be on any list though.
Somewhere: I am searching for the location of a transfer table that I saw somewhere in ME, NH or MA. I have the ones from Derby, Mt Washington and Waterville, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I saw this transfer table!
Lastly: if there is any rh or tt that is really unknown, feel free to post it- -if its in ME, NH, MA or VT, then I probably have it down, but post it anyway- -the harder to find the better.
Ok, that about does it. I know this is really vague stuff- -maybe even seeming pointless. However these last notes feel real untidy. I need some help on this one--especially with that darn Standish location!
Thanks again for the posts, any little clue would help.
-Russ