[CBQ] Re: Mendota Roundhouse

["tallowpot80" <tallowpot80@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Hol for putting that photo up.  Guess it's safe to say the roundhouse 
was gone by the 60's.

Jeff 
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> wrote:
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> Here's the Mendota turntable as seen in Burlington Bulletin 47.
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> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: amtrak347@...
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:06:10 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: Mendota Roundhouse
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> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@ wrote:
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> > Jeff,
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> > I dont have any info on the Mendota TT or rdhse other than to say I was in 
> > it several times while working jobs based there in the 70s and IIRC it was 
> > three stalls.
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> Leo -
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> I don't know if you been eating some of "Turtle's" brownies or not, but since 
> I hired-out before you and have worked most all of the assignments at 
> Mendota, post 1969, I do not recall from that point onward, there ever being 
> a "round house" building at Mendota. Yes, there was a turntable but no RH. 
> There was a a RH office/bunk room there, but no RH. I would imagine a RH did 
> exist sometime previously, but not in our era.
> I have seen pictures of the Mendota RH in the steam era, but that was long 
> before you and I hired-out.
> 
> Bob Campbell
> Bixby, OK
>




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