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2 unusual facts about roundhouse


CNR Spadina Roundhouse

Toronto's Canadian Pacific Railway, John Street Roundhouse, now the home of the Steam Whistle brewery along with Spadina Roundhouse were two of hundreds of roundhouses in North America in the 1930s.

Leon Redler

In 1967, with Joseph Berke, David Cooper and others he set up The Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, which was held at the Roundhouse in London from 15 July to 30 July 1967


Baltimore Terminal Subdivision

In 1875 new roundhouses were built at Bailey’s (Ostend Street, near the site of the present-day M&T Bank Stadium) and Riverside Yard on Locust Point.

Bavarian EP 1

During the fire in the Nuremberg-Gostenhof roundhouse in 2005 it was badly damaged.

Canadian Pacific 374

No. 374 was put on display on the turntable at the renovated CPR Drake Street roundhouse during Expo 86.

Chesapeake and Ohio 614

In 1979, there was a roundhouse fire that damaged Reading (RDG) 4-8-4 2101, owned by Ross Rowland.

CNR Spadina Roundhouse

The purpose of Spadina Roundhouse, was to pre-trip inspect, service and repair the motive power of passenger trains, including locomotives and Budd Rail Diesel Cars terminating, or originating at Toronto Union Station.

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

Perhaps the best known are the passenger car shop in Baltimore that is now the central roundhouse at the B&O Railroad Museum, the passenger station at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Eric Hester

CableACE Award Nomination: Roundhouse (1995) (Best Original Song)

Gerry Bron

He was at various times a clarinetist, a sheet music printer, an artist manager handling acts including Gene Pitney, Marianne Faithfull, Manfred Mann, Colosseum and Uriah Heep, a record producer working with the Bonzo Dog Band, Juicy Lucy and all the acts he managed with the exception of Faithfull, a booking agent, record label owner and a studio owner and manager at Roundhouse Studios.

Girod Street Cemetery

However, several sources state that the Louisiana Superdome was not built on the former cemetery location, but the former location of the Illinois Central Railroad engine terminal and roundhouse.

Hanko–Hyvinkää railway

Today, the Finnish Railway Museum is based at the site of the original roundhouse and Hyvinkää railway station buildings in the town of Hyvinkää.

Hazard's Pavilion

Showman George "Roundhouse" Lehman had planned to construct a large theatre center on the land he purchased at this location, but he went broke and the property was sold to the City Attorney (and soon to be Mayor), Henry T. Hazard.

International Centre for Theatre Research

Brook had previously been sponsored for limited periods by Jean-Louis Barrault or the RSC (at the Roundhouse).

John Crane

Between stints with The Groundlings in the early 1990s, Crane co-wrote and starred in Nickelodeon's Saturday night ensemble variety series, Roundhouse, produced by Sheffield and his former spouse, Rita Hester.

Kerrang! Tour

Jettblack were added for two dates at the London Roundhouse at the end of the tour.

Melinda Heffernan

Hefferman, from Cremorne, New South Wales, was crowned Miss Earth Australia 2009 on 19 September 2009 at the Roundhouse Theatre, University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Pelm

Former Gerolstein railway works yard, southwest of the village on the way to Gerolstein (Kasselburger Weg) – monumental zone, roundhouse, depot/administration building/workshop, 1928-1930, rebuilt in 1949/1950 after wartime destruction.

PRR D16

This locomotive, a 1905 product of the Juniata Shops, was selected by the railroad for preservation as a historic artifact and was stored at Wilmington, Delaware until 1951, following which it was placed in the PRR's historic collection in the roundhouse at Northumberland, Pennsylvania.

San Jose Steam Railroad Museum

The roundhouse was donated to the CRTC by Southern Pacific Railroad.

Soo Line L-1 class

One locomotive, the 1003, was placed in the strategic reserve, and stored serviceable in the Gladstone, Michigan roundhouse.

Tourville, Quebec

A roundhouse was built, in addition to a carbon chute, a water reservoir, and a train station named in the honor of former Chief Justice of Lower Canada James Monk.

Tucker, Utah

This rest area, which is designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot and roundhouse, was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.


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