Turntables in the early 20th Century.

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Gee, I'd like to thank ALL the gentlemen who provided input on this.   
For me, getting the 'look and feel' of the N&W in the 1930's into my  
Layout was important. It was irritating, not having any know source of  
information on N&W turntables, and only a few things on line. I knew  
Y'all would give me good advice.  I will first see if I have the real  
estate on the layout for a wye.  If not, I'll bite for the CMR 120  
foot table so I can turn "Y" class engines. Oh, and that fleet of M2's  
I have planned on building.


Mark Lindsey
Stuck in the 1930's




On Jan 14, 2008, at 3:15 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

Mark:  On the Cincinnati District, two turntables were initially used  
at Clare Yard, starting in 1901, east of Cincinnati; first a 65 footer  
which was replaced with a 75 footer in 1917.  There was no turntable  
on the west side of Cincinnati in Berry’s Yard ( near Ivorydale) but  
the N&W engines may have gone over into the B&O’s yard at Ivorydale to  
be turned.  I just have hints of this and no real solid  
documentation.  The 75 footer lasted until the end of freight steam on  
the Peavine- July1956

Freight engines seemed to have been G’s, W’s or M’s/M-1’s and M-2’s  
before 1924-1925

Up on the Hillsboro branch, there was an N&W turntable (65 footer  
Armstrong) next to West Street to turn the locomotives for the return  
trip back down to Sardinia.  No roundhouse or anything but the depot  
nearby.  But Sardinia had a wye going back into the 1870’s.

Clare had a two stall round house next to the turntable pit.  However,  
NO passenger engines were serviced at Clare, they were all serviced up  
at Idlwild by the CL&N (PRR) in the early years or at the PRR’s  
Pendleton shops over on the Ohio River near downtown Cincinnati.    
Pendleton had a turntable but Idlewild did not.   Big power like the E  
class locos apparently were not used on the Peavine until 1924-1925  
and the rebuild of the line.  Z’s started to be used then, too.

In 1935, a wye was built about a mile east of Clare on the other side  
of the Little Miami River for the Y-2 and Y-3 locomotives that could  
now be used over the line.

Gary Rolih
Cincinnati




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NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
Do you know how long it was?
Could a Y with the 18K tender be turned on it?
Were wye's used more than turntables deep in coal country, up in the  
mountains?



Mark Lindsey






On Jan 13, 2008, at 5:08 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

Mark,
There was a stand-alone in Saltville, Some of the concrete elements  
still exist. They are right behind the post office, adjacent to the  
two under-cover locomotives.

Mike Pierry, Jr.

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