Re: Como roundhouse 1981 "reaching the point of no return"

Posted by Todd Hackett on Dec 14, 2020; 8:26am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Como-roundhouse-1981-reaching-the-point-of-no-return-tp16140p16145.html

Kurt Maechner wrote

...How much of the present bay doors are original?  Are they a mixture or completely rebuilt?

Some are completely new because there wasn't enough useable material left, others are a mixture of existing and new materials. I'm pretty sure that Bill had a grant for rebuilding them, and outsourced the work to a carpenter. Some remains are still in the field to the south of the roundhouse (or at least they were there a few years ago), and I'm pretty sure that a couple of the original doors went to the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, but I'm not sure what they did with them. Looking at the photo from 1996, I'm pretty sure that the doors for the middle two bays are completely new and the rest have a lot of original material.