A company is marketing a turntable to turn cars around in a house's driveway.
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Memory tells me railroads used them for their locomotives long ago.Old Is New. Turntable
Jul 17, 2021
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Apparently there are still some operational Round Houses, although many are in ruins, many are museums and many have been repurposed as different types of businesses.
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Very good. And I liked the way they put you in suspense for much of the video.
It leads to this, also very good.
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Waterways use them too.
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While it is in open air, there is a transportatiion museum near me that used to be a train repair shop. They have let some people get on the turntable and rode them around.
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Afaik Montana Rail Link still uses it.
I think I'm going to get one of these and put it in my garage, so I don't have to back out of the garage.
When I get a garage.
Wow, doesn't list Baltimore. Baltimroe used to have one and I've been there, but they've ruined it. It's just the shadow of what it was.
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Oh, yeah!
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 23:15:05 -0400, Ralph Mowery posted for all of us to digest...
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