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Another Turntable Find

General Discussion
#1

Well… I found some more interesting turntables. Turntables are rapidly falling out of favor with the class ones, but if you look you can still find some. This batch is really different. Take a look.

Turntable one is a full 180 deg. And well kept. Looks like a complete new roof over a ton of stalls. Image Date of 8/15/2015

Turntable two, looks to freshly re-built and in use, but no roundhouse to go around it.

And Turntable Three, It too appears to be freshly re-built, and in use.

And the kicker…

All three are in the same yard. OK Steve and Devon Figure this one out.

#2

My initial guess would be that it’s a railroad preservation center or rebuild center. Close to a Class I interchange. Newly built, or remodeled as the ties are new concrete ties. The square building in the the upper right looks to be a RIP track, which further reinforces my idea that it’s located near a major interchange/classification yard. No ash pit or other area for dumping/cleaning out steam engines, so it’s possible that the locomotives stored in the completed roundhouse are for display only. I see what looks like to be a couple of small switcher type locomotives that would be used to move around non-operating locomotives/railcars. The crossover in the first photo is a very shallow crossover, doesn’t look like a yard trackage crossover, but not a high speed mainline on either. Clearly though the length is needed for some reason.

I don’t think it’s the NS Jaunita rebuild shops…

#3

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.4120969,11.0909956,811m/data=!3m1!1e3

Nuremburg. Thats one heck of a facility and yard.

#4

I was going to say that 11 degrees East Longitude puts it in Germany, somewhere, but I see that Brother Paul has solved the problem. Still, to get as far as “Germany,somewhere,” before coffee, is pretty good, don’t you think? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#5

Paul Burch said:

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.4120969,11.0909956,811m/data=!3m1!1e3

Nuremburg. Thats one heck of a facility and yard.

I guess Paul has good eyesight to read the numbers. I note on his link the tracks are full of locomotives, unlike the original photo.

I was just about to look at the NS Spencer Shops view for the first one. . . .

#6

Well I chimed in to late. My guess was going to be not a repair facility but maybe one of the manufacturers. Either way its impressive to say the least. Would bring a whole new meaning to a switching layout. You could spend all day just taking locos and cars in and out of the shop.

#7

http://www.bahnstatistik.de/Gleisplan/N%FCrRbf_1970.gif

Google Earth, using View and then history and move to slider to the left a little bit

49.4113508 11.0929624

#8

When you look at google earth and then pan out this is only a small part of a giant complex. There are yards and track everywhere.