Re: Como Roundhouse Addition
Posted by SteveG on Sep 06, 2017; 10:13pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Como-Roundhouse-Addition-tp9120p9351.html
Hi Jim,
After re-reading this thread and looking back at an earlier one, I've got a possible further refinement to the Como roundhouse timeline.
Rick Steele had posted in the discussion of the roundhouse pits that the valuation sketch (presumably from the 1918 valuation) showed four separate sections, the last one being 2 stalls (see here).
The picture you cited from 1906-1909 shows #67 and another engine on a track pointing toward the turntable but next to the last wall of the wooden roundhouse extensions as they then existed:
If you compare that photo with the August 1910 photo (zooming in helps on this):
It looks like the last two stalls have no smokejacks, and there doesn't appear to be a track right next to the end of the wooden additions.
So my conjecture is that the last two stalls were added between 1905 and 1910, roofing over one or possibly two tracks that were open-air previously. Can any corroborate or disprove that assertion?
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Como-Roundhouse-Addition-tp9120p9351.html
Hi Jim,
After re-reading this thread and looking back at an earlier one, I've got a possible further refinement to the Como roundhouse timeline.
Rick Steele had posted in the discussion of the roundhouse pits that the valuation sketch (presumably from the 1918 valuation) showed four separate sections, the last one being 2 stalls (see here).
The picture you cited from 1906-1909 shows #67 and another engine on a track pointing toward the turntable but next to the last wall of the wooden roundhouse extensions as they then existed:
If you compare that photo with the August 1910 photo (zooming in helps on this):
It looks like the last two stalls have no smokejacks, and there doesn't appear to be a track right next to the end of the wooden additions.
So my conjecture is that the last two stalls were added between 1905 and 1910, roofing over one or possibly two tracks that were open-air previously. Can any corroborate or disprove that assertion?
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