July 25, 2016
Group - Hot on the heels of Hol's mystery roundhouse, I've
inserted/attached an image of another unidentified roundhouse that I
think could be Q and, perhaps, was somewhere in Nebraska:
The wood roundhouse has five stalls and rectangular smoke jacks.
It looks like the stall at far left has its smoke jack in the rear,
but the stall next to it has smoke jacks at both front and rear. The turntable
bridge is "arm strong" powered and its pit is stone lined.
The roundhouse color might be a faded mineral red.
The dilapidated roundhouse looks unused in the image, but there appears to
be a pile of kindling wood on the left side used to light-off the coal in
steam locomotive fireboxes. If Q, this roundhouse is most likely at
the junction of several branch lines. Just the right size for Class H, K, R and
P locomotives.
Can any Lines Westerner confirm that this was a Q roundhouse and if so
where it was located? Looks like it would make a nice modeling project. Best
Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
