Turntables in the early 20th Century.

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Harry this makes sense. Not sure where the turntable was but would 
guess it was at the old engine house.  Here is how the stations lined 
up on the NRH&W.

Miles       Station etc.
0              Narrows
0.37      Engine House (NRH&W)
0.5       Narrows Branch Jct.
3.1       Shumate
4         Bridge No. 2

Jim Blackstock


>Where, exactly, were the turntables in Ripplemead and Narrows?

>

>Bruce:

>I don't know about Ripplemead.  The Narrows Branch tied

>in to N&W on the south side of the right-of-way, west of

>Narrows, west of Wolf Creek,  at the foot of a sizeable cut.

>A track chart of the branch shows no turntable in the vicinity

>of Narrows.  The timetable indicates the mixed train for

>Suiter originated at Narrows JCT.  My guess is that Narrows

>Jct. was near the crossing of state route #651, and that the

>turntable was located there.

>                                                             Harry Bundy

>

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