Re: Como Roundhouse Addition

Posted by ComoDepot on Nov 07, 2019; 3:44am
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To my knowledge the Roundhouse was extended 3 times to reach its 19 bays, which it would have been in 1910

If you look along Park Gulch you can see that at least the third extension must have been built on fill material. So why did they position the first section the way they did knowing the issues that would arise if it was extended significantly.

In crude terms the stone section would need to  be rotated about 6 bays clockwise to block the wind blown winter snow. They did have a snow fence incorporated into the 3 bay extension and after that burned in 1935 they did build one across, last week the turntable would have been inoperable due to snow in the pit.

I have never been able to find out why they put it where they did, a long way from a water source, expansion would have been difficult, they had plenty of other options.

I can think of other situations where the head office did not take much notice of local knowledge so perhaps it looked good on paper?