Eastern Railroad Discussion > old round house in atlanta georgia aerial photos

at the intersection of doane street and windsor street in atlanta is an old round house with pit and turn table

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some of the location is new construction and some old withn the roundhouse remaininhg

in the birds eye view, in one of the angles, the turntabhle is still in pklace in others it is gone

by the looksn the site is no longer rail related,

who did this belong to orginally

what happened to the turntable, was it cut for scrap?


looking south in some of the birdseye views you will see NS motive power their SD-7/9's that were assigned to atlanta yards for switching 1st generation power

This is the roundhouse and turntable at the Southern Railway Pegram Shops. It was originally a steam shop (called South Shops) and was used as a diesel shop into the 1990's. Only a few stalls remain of the roundhouse, these were used as shower/locker areas and a small training center until the facility was closed. The turntable was intact until a couple of years ago. I had heard that they were moving it to Chattanooga, but don't know for sure. The entire complex is still owned by NS, and is currently leased to a coiled steel company. The steel company only uses the backshop area, as far as I can tell, so many of the other buildings are beginning to fall into disrepair.

Andrew Durden
Atlanta, GA

That's the site of the NS (ex-Southern Railway) Pegram Shops, originally called South Shops. The roundhouse is still there (NS last used it for offices), but the turntable was removed a couple years ago to be used at the NS Chattanooga diesel shop. The 2D image shows a bulldozer filling the pit.

A steel distributor occupies the erecting shop with coil steel gons appearing on the tracks that once serviced the Southern Crescent E8s and Tuxedo RS-3s and U-boats.

If you look a few miles to the north, at the intersection of Gray and John Streets, you'll find another Southern roundhouse that's now used by a fashion college. This is the former North Avenue Yard and the turntable was removed and roundhouse closed long before I ever found the site. The roundhouse was home to Crescent Limited Ps-4s and other Atlanta based passenger steam power. The coach yard, located where the parking lot is on the west side of the property, was the service base for the Southern's Atlanta passenger trains and cars, and launching pad for many steam excursions through the 1970s. The balloon loop that turned passenger trains traced the curved south and east walls of the existing buildings.

Following the tracks a few more miles to the northwest and west of Marietta Blvd, you'll find the CSX (ex-L&N, nee-NC&StL) turntable at Tilford Yard (formerly NC&StL's Hills Park Yard. This roundhouse is long gone, but the turntable is still used to turn power.

For period aerial photos of these locations, check out http://www.historicaerials.com/.

In the 1970s, green E-8's could often be seen shuttling between Pegram and Peachtree Station.

The North Avenue coach yard closed not long after Southern gave 1 & 2 to Amtrak. From then on, Southern ran Atlanta-based steam trains out of Armour or Inman.