Roundhouse
An enginehouse like a sector of a circle in shape, and usually surrounding a turntable.
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Roundhouse
A building shaped like a semicircle, usually surrounding a turntable, in which locomotives and other railroad equipment are inspected, cleaned, repaired and serviced.
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Roundhouse
A circular (usually) structure meant to house locomotives during servicing. The roundhouse customarily faced a turntable which was used to direct a locomotive onto and off of one of the roundhouse tracks.
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Roundhouse
A building, usually circular in design, in which locomotives and other railroad equipment are inspected, cleaned, repaired and serviced.
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The roundhouse and turntable at Wolsztyn. There were many steam engines stored here, only a few were operating. The railroad has a shortage of qualified steam locomotive engineers, which prevents more trains from operating.
MDC/Roundhouse: Sold as kits, these engines usually cost anywhere from $70 to $100 [$60 - $80 (kit)]. The boilers are metal, the cabs and tender are plastic. MDC makes smaller (and earlier-era) steam engines (4-4-2, 2-8-0, Shay, etc.).
Train Doc's Roundhouse - Pennsy fans will love it! Sal, the "Train Doctor," repairs locomotives. Great info, links and more ...
Q) OK, but what about metal wheels?
A) As we get more deeply into metal versus plastic, I want to say that I use plastic wheelsets primarily from Athearn and MDC/Roundhouse.
Slippery Track A highly greased track near the roundhouse or back shop where a newly rebuilt locomotive could be run in without going anywhere, and without calling an engine crew or pilot.
Trainmaster - An employee who coordinates the work of the yardmaster and the roundhouse foreman; he reports directly to the superintendent.
Tramway - Light railway or rails for tram-cars.
Steam locomotives are housed in a circular train depot, a roundhouse that surrounds a turntable.
Train composition and operations
Trains are composed in a classification yard.
When you visit Railtown 1897 at Jamestown, be alert as you walk behind the roundhouse and toward the car shop. The tiny boxcar body sitting on the ground was built for the thirty-inch gauge Yosemite Short line. The Y.S.L.
A small town, a farm, a mine, a mountain, a lake, or a roundhouse are all desirable visual elements on a model railway. However, each needs a few specific mini-scenes to make them come alive.
Kits are offered by Roundhouse Engineering of England and by Aster of Japan. Aster is available in the United States through Hyde-Out Mountain.
Simulations of arc welding can make a machine shop or roundhouse really come alive. There are several types of circuit boards commercially available to help create this effect: ...
When the layout was shortened, the roundhouse and turntable were placed at the end. The length of the freight yard had to be reduced.
At Holborn yard along the north side of the layout is a coaling tower, sixteen stall roundhouse and turntable.
Usually has a turntable, loco shed or roundhouse, coaling stage or tower, water crane, etc. Multiple Unit A type of passenger train where the diesel or electric motor is built into the carriages themselves.
Once you are running all those trains, you'll need a hostler to operate and prepare locomotives between the engine facility and yard. The power desk or roundhouse foreman makes sure appropriate motive power is assigned, ...
Coupler - Designed to look like prototypical railway couplers, both operational (e.g., Accurail® Accumate, Kato, and Micro-Trains® Line Magne-Matic®) and non-operational dummy (e.g., Intermountain Railway Co. and Model Die Casting Inc. Roundhouse ...
A transfer table performs a similar operation to a roundhouse turntable but with a different geometry and no turnaround facility. Transfer tables can also be called traversers.
 See also: Track, Train, Engine, Locomotive, Point
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