Nostalgia & History > Question about Santa Fe TurnTable @ San Berdu

In what year was the TurnTable at the Santa Fe Shops in San Bernardino get Removed ?
Thanks, Tom

The whole shop facility was leveled in 1995.

Fred Harrison
Central Point, OR
CORPpower/JSS/EORS

The turntable and about half of the roundhouse disappeared decades before the shops were leveled (the remaining portion of the roundhouse was turned into the battery shop). I don't have an exact date, but photos on historicaerials.com show the turntable disappeared between 1959 and 1968:

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=5.58676793539956E-06&lat=34.1067400593412&lon=-117.313252533391&year=1968

I'm not sure I'd put my faith in topo maps to track details like this, but for what it's worth, the ones on historicaerials shows the roundhouse halved between 1965 and 1969.

The turntable was long gone and the remnant of the roundhouse had been converted into storage space by the time I started working at San Bernardino in July 1969. The name "San Bernardino Roundhouse" was by then applied to the large shed on the southwest side of "A" Yard, which had road access from Rialto Ave., crossing the Pacific Electric right-of-way.