Surviving Roundhouses and Turntables in Maine
| Type | Stalls | Year Built | Railroad | Current Use | City | State | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turntable Only | Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington | Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington museum | Alna | ME | USA | tourist RR, 2 foot gauge | ||
| Visual Remains Only | Maine Central | vacant lot | Bingham | ME | USA | turntable ring visible, for end of line turning | ||
| Visual Remains Only | Canadian Pacific | Central Maine and Quebec yard | Brownville | ME | USA | foundation visible | ||
| Roundhouse Only | 8 | Maine Central | warehouse | Calais | ME | USA | no turntable nor tracks, appears intact | |
| Roundhouse and Turntable | 5 | Bangor & Aroostook RR | abandoned? | Caribou | ME | USA | ||
| Roundhouse and Turntable | 8 | Bangor & Aroostook RR | railroad yard | Derby | ME | USA | ||
| Roundhouse Only | Grand Trunk Western | work offices | East Deering | ME | USA | |||
| Roundhouse Only | 13 | Bangor & Aroostook | Bangor Hermon Railyard Storage | Hermon | ME | USA | ||
| Visual Remains Only | Bangor & Aroostook RR | demolished | Houlton | ME | USA | |||
| Visual Remains Only | Bangor & Aroostook | vacant lot | Lagrange | ME | USA | turntable ring and foundation outline visible | ||
| Roundhouse Only | 3 | 1910 | Bangor & Aroostook | yard | Millinocket | ME | USA | |
| Roundhouse and Turntable | 8 | Bangor & Aroostook | Central Maine and Quebec yard | Milo | ME | USA | still in use | |
| Roundhouse Only | 12 | Bangor Hermon Railyard Storage | Northern Maine Junction | ME | USA | used as scrap yard | ||
| Roundhouse and Turntable | 8 | Sandy River | Sandy River and Rangely Lakes | Phillips | ME | USA | ||
| Roundhouse Only | 18 | Grand Trunk | Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices | Portland | ME | USA | tracks long gone, building renovated for offices | |
| Visual Remains Only | 22 | Portland Terminal Company | Pan Am yard | Portland | ME | USA | ||
| Roundhouse and Turntable | 5 | Maine Central | Central Maine and Quebec yard | Rockland | ME | USA | still in use, good condition | |
| Roundhouse Only | 7 | Maine Central | Pan Am yard | Rumford | ME | USA | roof in poor condition, turntable gone | |
| Turntable Only | Bangor & Aroostook | wooded lot | Saint Francis | ME | USA | turntable in disrepair, no tracks, for end of the line turning | ||
| Visual Remains Only | Boston & Maine | roadside historical preservation with marker | South Berwick | ME | USA | turntable pit constructed with large stone blocks, no bridge nor tracks | ||
| Visual Remains Only | Maine Central | New Brunswick Southern yard | Vanceboro | ME | USA | foundation visible, short remnants of wall still standing | ||
| Roundhouse and Turntable | 1910 | Maine Central | railroad yard | Waterville | ME | USA |
Statistics for Roundhouses in Maine
- 13 roundhouses that are at least partially intact.
- 8 turntables with or without a roundhouse.
- 2 turntables where a roundhouse may have once existed.
- 7 demolished roundhouses where an aerial view still shows the visual remains.
Resources
- Google Map View of all roundhouse / turntable locations in the USA
- Significant Extant Railroad Structures
- Surviving roundhouse discussion
- TRAINS Roundhouse list
- For those of you with Google Earth, Brian Berthold has provided a Google Earth KMZ File. This file can be used to navigate to almost 1000 historic roundhouse locations in the USA.
Special thanks to Mark Mason who used the USGS Historical Topographic Maps to locate many of the roundhouse remains shown in this database.