The above remarkable picture gives a bird's-eye view of the new round-house built by the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Turcot, a westerly suburb of Montreal. It is the largest round-house in Canada, and one of the largest on the continent. Its turntable is 100 feet long, and there is only one other so long in America, namely, on the Pennsylvania system at Altoona. Ther are stalls for 57 engines, each stall being 85 feet long, which is five feet longer than in most round-houses. Telephones, electric lighting, coal chutes, storehouses, and all the equipment of the most up-to-date round-houses are there. The house was opened with 40 stalls on Christmas Day, 1906, and the other 17 stalls have been added since. - The Montreal Weekly Witness, October 27, 1908.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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The above remarkable picture gives a bird's-eye view of the new round-house built by the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Turcot, a westerly suburb of Montreal. It is the largest round-house in Canada, and one of the largest on the continent. Its turntable is 100 feet long, and there is only one other so long in America, namely, on the Pennsylvania system at Altoona. Ther are stalls for 57 engines, each stall being 85 feet long, which is five feet longer than in most round-houses. Telephones, electric lighting, coal chutes, storehouses, and all the equipment of the most up-to-date round-houses are there. The house was opened with 40 stalls on Christmas Day, 1906, and the other 17 stalls have been added since. - The Montreal Weekly Witness, October 27, 1908.
Amazing. Where did you get that picture?
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