Former Railroad Depot, Roundhouse and Turntable in Greenville, Pa.
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- Fascinating look at the old station, passengers loading for the "last trip", walking down the line to the abandoned roundhouse and turntable, built in 1893. From being the major maintenance shops and repair area for the locomotives of the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. The roundhouse had the capacity to hold and repair 17 engines at one time. When the Canadian National Railroad merged with the B&LE, the maintenance shop were abandoned, 2004. The turntable was supposedly still operating in 2006. Keep the history live...
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This presentation drifted me back to a rainy night in early 1950's ,lying in bed hearing a B&O Mike beginning the grade up from Brooklyn to Masonville in Southern Baltimore. The powerful exhaust was interrupted by rapid roars as the drivers spun on the wet rails and the sound again changed to labored chugs as the engineer applied sand for traction. Thank you for taking me back to that rainy winters night. Tom Triumph.
What a shame this is not being preserved , such a important part of Greenville s history.
at least its in pa.- where everything still seems to be left standing forever. i don't think they know the meaning of 'code enforcement'....isn't this in crawford county?
@@tommurphy4307Mercer county
I've been a fan of railroads since 1957 when I saw a steam loco up close. I find it sad to see old railroad things rotting over time. I am happy that many old steam locomotives are being brought back to life.
Would love to see this site restored
Frank: That's no small roundhouse, it's a darn biggie! Congrats on all the excellent video grabs, including the interior of the turntable shanty with the controls . Keep up the good work. Full steam ahead !
Thank you.
For anyone wondering. I’m 99% sure that the roundhouse is the only abandoned thing in that yard
Thanks for posting! It certainly is hard to see an old friend in this condition, even if that friend is 129 years old.
This should be restored and used for a future tourist railroad/railroad museum attraction!
Brakes my heart seeing old rail industry in a sad shape like that.
brings back a lot of memories of vacationing at pymatuning and rail-fanning along the jefferson subdivision- fun times. the trains went right by my uncle's western auto store in andover ohio.
Wow, what a cool post. I remember walking past the roundhouse in 1979, saw a steamer inside. I was on orientation before my start of employment with m o w. Actually got to ride the transfer table once, we were picking up equipment to take south for an undercutting job.
There were three steam locomotives inside, BLE 643 AND 154, And Union 304
more info is the turntable was a 100 foot the frame of this building is Concrete/Steel wile the walls are Concrete/Masonry
awesome video man. all the details. thanks for posting
Bellissimo filmato! Saluti dall'Italia!
Roundhouse relic digs for me have been fortunate.
Gold, firearms...easy as...pie.
So you trespass and steal. Cool.
Thanks
Heartbreaking, so sad.
The high tech of its day. External combustion (steam), now internal combustion, soon, solid state ( fuel cells). Big old roundhouse in KC MO made into hipster office building. Cold be done with this one as well. Thanks, Frank, beautiful music and visuals. A drone video pass would really give a better feel for how really big roundhouses are.
Museum one day hopefully
Check out the old Katy Railroad, the wardens shop. Tissue recommended.
Great video!..I wonder if those are the original rails inside the roundhouse.
Sorry but I really can't say. Maybe contact the Greenville Museum
Great slideshow and video clips! Been a few years since I was in Greenville. How busy are the lines these days? I always loved seeing the Orange engines on the bridge next to Johnston Road. (I guess that was close to Mercer than Greenville, but I've been in Greenville, too.)
Basically just one train a day now. Ore train leaves Greenville around 6:30 AM and travels down to North Bessemer in Penn Hills to drop off loaded cars for the Union Railroad, then returns with empty cars and reaches Greenville between 12:30 and 2 PM depending on if they run late or not. A new crew takes over and leaves Greenville around 4-4:30 to take the empties up to Conneaut to get loaded with ore, then they come back down to Greenville late at night/early in the morning and the process repeats. The ore trains are almost always pulled by red CN engines now. 2 orange Bessemer engines and 1 maroon engine (painted in the colors of the DMIR) are kept around for local or “miscellaneous” runs, which run sporadically.
Nice to see a piece of history that still has it's glass (knock on wood) , here in Stockton CA,. something this wonderful would first get trashed and then burned, because of various a lack of care by the city and lack of education and homeless folks, etc . save it don't give any directions to get to it.
Little pieces of times gone by sometimes take longer to go
I heard railroads of Pennsylvania is trying to get this off of CN.
Looks ok. With a lot of tec it could be a great museum. 16:01
This is awesome! Did you just walk the right of way to get back there?
It's actually accessible by road. Might hafta hop a fence but that's where the fun's at right? Anyways, just look Greenville, PA up on Google Maps and obviously go to where all the track are at.
+steammaster4449 Thanks!
What's the music? I like it
On what street is this location in Greenville pa i live 14 miles from it and my dad grew up there.thank s for any Information
it could still be saved, if i was close enough i would fund raise to save it. but im on the other side of the state watching a diffrent turntable
I was just there about a week ago. It’s in extremely bad shape
@@steelcityrailfan4808 oh... that's sad...
Yeah
They should redesign it so it would be used for diesels and sometimes steamies.
It was used for Diesel, but CN has considered most of the facilities redundant since 2006. At that point the turn table was still used for turning locomotives.
The old train buildings are used for placement for minors
Is this near Scranton pa?
Western PA
is the turntable electric powered ,or steam?
The Transfer Table and Turntable at the shops are both electric.
Rail cat included
is the rail completely abandoned
They still use Greenville to park the engines and as a shop just not the roundhouse
@@alexanderj19 interesting. Train history is interesting. I've always wondered how I can get a hold of old Train and home maps and explore looking for them in the woods
dude seriously why the hell did you stop making kick-ass videos for? The Channel is dead now
20 mis of nothing with awful music...
So I’m assuming you don’t like trains?
@@steelcityrailfan4808 No.....just still pictures robbed and badly edited together with poor music.....