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Steam & Excursion > Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location?Date: 12/19/13 06:11 Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: LoggerHogger More often than not, railroad facilities including roundhouses and their turntables were located in the heart of cities on the "wrong side of the tracks" and were not very scenic. However there were some roundhouses and their turntables that were located in beautiful settings.
Here is my vote for the most beautiful location of a turntable, The McCloud River RR in McCloud, California at the foot of Mt. Shastaas shown by this photo taken by Richard F. Thomas. What is your "most beautiful turntable location"? Martin Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/13 06:16 by LoggerHogger.  Date: 12/19/13 06:39 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: CimaScrambler I don't have a photo of it so share, but I'm thinking the Silverton Railroad's Corkscrew Gulch turntable must rate pretty far up the list of scenic turntable locations.
Kit Courter Menefee, CA LunarLight Photography Date: 12/19/13 06:43 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: rswebber Either at the end of the Floresta branch, or even better, the one on the DSP&P outside of Elmo - pit still visible. I can think of no more scenic locale than a mile or so below Alpine Tunnel. Laws has a nice location, though the immediate area is less than scenic, the area beyond is beautiful. Also Hancock, and the table inside the enginehouse at Alpine.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/13 06:45 by rswebber. Date: 12/19/13 06:52 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: LoggerHogger For those who may not have seen the Corkscrew Gulch Turntable, here it is in service over 100 years ago.
Martin  Date: 12/19/13 06:53 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: rswebber Como - http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS/BS-Como.html
St. Elmo - right near the TT location: http://www.vistaminingadventures.com/mary-murphy-mine.html Date: 12/19/13 07:03 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: tomstp Corkscrew: So instead of a switchback they used a turntable. Odd.
Date: 12/19/13 07:28 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: railstiesballast Scenic nomination: SP Santa Barbara, across the palm-lined street from the Pacific Ocean.
Corkscrew Gulch: It was a single switchback. If switchbacks are in pairs the train ends up going the same direction, but a single switchback reverses direction, so a TT was handy to keep the locomotive pointed forward. A decade ago I hiked to it from Red Mountain, a delightful walk in the woods many decades after reading about it in Beebe & Clegg's NARROW GAUGE IN THE ROCKIES. Date: 12/19/13 07:38 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: Labby Not exactly mentioned was the turntable on stilts just outside the west portal of Alpine tunnel. It's like you're at the top of the World.
Date: 12/19/13 08:11 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: zephyrus I always liked the Western Pacific's turntable and roundhouse at Keddie. Not only a beautiful mountain location, but perched on a wide shelf of rock clinging to a mountain side.
Z Date: 12/19/13 08:39 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: 3751_loony I don't remember the railroad, but the one in Hawaii with a palm tree nearby.
Jim Montague IRVINE, CA Train and Nature photo Art Date: 12/19/13 08:44 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: patd3985 Timber or Cochran on the S.P. Tillamook branch? I don't have any pix, but I've been told they were quite scenic!
Date: 12/19/13 08:48 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: LoggerHogger You could also consider the turntable at Salmonberry. Here is a photo of it in service.
Martin   Date: 12/19/13 10:27 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: spnudge How about the turntable outside the east portal (north) of Tunnel 13 on the Siskiyous?
Beautiful view of the start of the Valley down below. Nudge Date: 12/19/13 11:20 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: mcfflyer Don't forget the turntable at Alpine Tunnel on the South Park!
Date: 12/19/13 19:15 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: RuleG Yosemite Valley Railroad's turntable at El Portal, the entrance to Yosemite National Park.
Date: 12/19/13 20:21 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: TonyJ Although not in the U.S., I find this short of a switcher on a turntable in France kinda scenic. Notice it swings over a canal.
 Date: 12/19/13 21:26 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: truxtrax TonyJ Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Although not in the U.S., I find this short of a > switcher on a turntable in France kinda scenic. > Notice it swings over a canal. That opens to let canal traffic pass I believe though. Larry Dodgion Wilsonville, OR Date: 12/19/13 21:34 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: TonyJ truxtrax Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > TonyJ Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Although not in the U.S., I find this short of > a > > switcher on a turntable in France kinda scenic. > > Notice it swings over a canal. > > That opens to let canal traffic pass I believe > though. Correct! Date: 12/20/13 00:41 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: 4451Puff Does Norden count?
Date: 12/20/13 10:51 Re: Where Was The Most Scenic Turntable Location? Author: CimaScrambler Here is an image of the turntable at the west end of old Alpine Tunnel, taken a dozen years ago. Very easy and really fun drive getting there from Gunnison.
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