Railtown 1897 Roundhouse- A rare railway treasure in Jamestown California.

A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives. Traditionally, though not always the case today, these buildings surrounded or were adjacent to a turntable.
Today, turntables are rarely used by freight railroads.
In the early 1900’s there were 3000 Roundhouses and today there are 200 left. Out of the 200 there are only 12 you can visit and only 6 of those are working rail yards.

The roundhouse has become a very rare piece of rail history and the roundhouse turntable is even more rare.
No one thinks about trains being maintained but the old steam engines required extensive maintain to keep the boiler sections ready to run.
Steam trains require an 8 hour start up period to bring the boilers up to the proper temperature before they can be run down the track. You can’t just walk out and start them up. Then when the steam engines return they spend an entire night cooling down.

There is no fast way to heat and cool an old steam engine, so the roundhouse plays an extensive role in making this happen properly

In this adventure we show the roundhouse, turntable, rare rail cars, steam engine repairs and cooling, along with the movies and TV shows that have filmed at Railtown 1897 State Park.

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