Ran across this ad for a hardware store, which I'm guessing is in PA. Anyone know if it is located in a real former roundhouse?

http://www.yellowpages-ads.com/01008422
ryarger@rypn.org

> Ran across this ad for a hardware store,
> which I'm guessing is in PA. Anyone know if
> it is located in a real former roundhouse?

Nerwfoundland, Pa., in SW Wayne County. Never even been a railroad there of any kind; the nearest RR line is Steamtown/DLRR at Tobyhanna, several miles to the southwest.


lner4472@bcpl.net

If you want to buy pipe fittings in a roundhouse, you can do so in the concrete half-circle roundhouse on the former NYC just outside Niles, Michigan. A plumbing supply house is one of several businesses operating in the perfectly-maintained enginehouse. The property owner also preserves the adjacent RR YMCA as an office, and keeps the turntable operable as the centerpiece of a lawn and flower garden. However, the bridge lay underwater between the '60's and '80's, and is now in a see-through condition.

The adjacent machine shop is under different ownership, and derelict. A titanic multi-story ice house is still standing. This terminal has a very lost-world feel to it, having been excessed very early by the NYC. Several miles of vacant yards, with humps and grade-separated flyovers are still evident. The engine terminal is a quarter-mile from the Amtrak main line. One of the Project 1225 enginemen ran past this site every day for years and never knew there was a roundhouse there. No NYC Hudsons left in it, though, just trucks and copper pipe elbows.

Aarne Frobom
The Steam Railroading Institute
P. O. Box 665
Owosso, MI 48867-0665

> Ran across this ad for a hardware store,
> which I'm guessing is in PA. Anyone know if
> it is located in a real former roundhouse?

Cadillac Michigan had Roundhouse Lumber located across the street from the PRR,PC,MIGN, now TSBY enginehouse for many years (I think it is still a hardware store). While it was a circular building. old plat maps showed that while it was the site of a turntable, it never was a railroad roundhouse.

Steve Zuiderveen

SZuidervee@aol.com

> Cadillac Michigan had Roundhouse Lumber
> located across the street from the
> PRR,PC,MIGN, now TSBY enginehouse for many
> years (I think it is still a hardware
> store). While it was a circular building.
> old plat maps showed that while it was the
> site of a turntable, it never was a railroad
> roundhouse.

> Steve Zuiderveen

Just like the "roundhouse" in Oberlin,OH ?? It was a gas storage building for the old city producer gas plant.


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