[fabianfred]

[Metatron]

Cool stuff!

What was the 'roundhouse' used for?

[KG64_Ðørvånski]

those were friendly trains???? very good though! 3 thumbs up!

[fabianfred]

Cool stuff!

What was the 'roundhouse' used for?

The Roundhouse was a shed for Locomotives with a turntable in the centre ......more usually they are only a half-circle...the present-day one is only a half-circle type

[Jabo]

Looking over both the Pre & Post raid photos, one can see the price paid by civilians both rich and poor.

The occupying Army probably took over the nicer neighborhood.

[fabianfred]

Living so close to an important target...probably attacked by both sides as it changed hands and the war progressed...I would imagine the occupants may have already abandoned their houses....
As they say the yard had been attacked several times in the past.

[crimar]

War is not a game...

[_-JARMOPOWER-_]

Where is that station? I want to check it in the FMB

[Poltava]

Interesting! As I mentioned in another thread: that was an important target for the heavy bombers of the Allies, and there was a number of raids by a bit less potent aircraft before this.

[MrOblongo]

This also show how wrong is the damage of the bombs in the game.....

[fabianfred]

Where is that station? I want to check it in the FMB

It is on my latest version of my Thailand map...and on the WIP Burma maps

a Rangoon....I made it using the photos as a guide

[KG64t_Raider]

Very Evil :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: POOR trains, they didn't stand a chance!

[_-JARMOPOWER-_]

But i want that railway thing!

[={TTU}=Tomcat]

one can see the price paid by civilians both rich and poor.

I will agree during WWII when the USAAF bombed here the railway a bomb fell here in my neigbourhood and destroyed the house of my grate-granperents =/ (lucky enof they survived =) ) and my neigbourhood is like about 10km from the station o.0

[Boris The Spider]

Cool stuff!

What was the 'roundhouse' used for?

The Roundhouse was a shed for Locomotives with a turntable in the centre ......more usually they are only a half-circle...the present-day one is only a half-circle type

To elaborate further...
Steam engines could only run effectively forward and weren't designed to pull a consist of cars in reverse for any length of time. Therefore at the end of a route the engine needed to be turned around. Now if that's all you wanted to do a simple triangle of track called a 'Wye' was all that was needed.



At major rail yards engines would be serviced and overhauled. That required a shop building. The roundhouse with it's turntable provided a compact way to do that and also served to turn the engine around.

With today's diesel engines that can be ran just as effectively in either direction the turntable and roundhouse have all but disappeared.

Here is all that is left of the only roundhouse in my home town:



[i]The 1ST Brooklyn Roundhouse was built in 1912. It was at the Southern Pacific Railroads northern most terminus. The end of the line.

The existing roundhouse was built during World War II. The original brick roundhouse was torn down in 1956. Portland