Re: Como Roundhouse Addition

Posted by Mike Trent on Aug 17, 2017; 1:21am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Como-Roundhouse-Addition-tp9120p9136.html

Thanks for starting this thread, it should be easier to find later.

I'm not sure how much more can be added, but I do have at least one thing.

In my series of meetings with Doug Schnarbush, he mentioned more than once this addition to the roundhouse. He had gone on the Extra Board in Como in 1927. His description was that although the rotary had a home there, the rest of the structure wasn't anything like a roundhouse at all, he thought of it as a drafty old shed, or an open barn.

If you study the 1927 photo looking straight at the rear of the addition, bear in mind that you are looking straight toward the turntable, yet you are able to see enough of the long length of the North wall that you can easily count the windows. So you can imagine how different this is from normal roundhouse geometry.

I've never been able to conjure up any reason why that odd addition is shaped like that, or why on Earth the third stall has no doors. I've seen a picture somewhere that shows the front corner of that open third stall, and it appears that the opening is just what you would expect as a roundhouse door.

Jim Powers in Denver built this addition on to his On3 Como Roundhouse, and it was very interesting. Someone must have pictures of it, I'll write and ask him if he might.