Railyard: (Satellite, 158 photos)
Backshops: (Satellite, 127 photos) A sign calls this "Juniata Heavy Repair Shops."(Update: National Park Service The Table of Contents seems to be missing a lot of sections, e.g. Section 13)
See also: Pennsy Coaling Tower and early roundhouses.
You can see in a satellite image how a different roundhouse was removed and the turntable used instead of a transfer table for the backshops. Below is a ground level view.
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| Ernie Julian posted Doug Mayes It looks like Altoona Car Shops Roundhouse No. 2 http://www.billspennsyphotos.com/apps/photos/photo... Blake Daulton shared Larry Stultz also posted PRR roundhouse in Altoona Pa. just N. of the 4th. St. pedestrian bridge. Do not know the year nor the originator, but more than likely a Galen Smith product. Enjoy. Lance Myers One of several in Altoona. This one was actually originally part of the car shop, then later was a locomotive finishing shop. The turntable was 106' 8" and the building was 433 ft in diameter. Phil De Franco posted Francis Otterbein posted Ken Riley posted Pennsylvania Railroad Round House and Locomotive Finishing Shop in Altoona in 1950. In the upper left you can see the Tank and Steel Shops. To the right are the Westbound and Eastbound Preference Yards. Farther right is the Eastbound Receiving Yard. Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared Larry Fink: What's the tower, lower edge, left of center? |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Blake's share Dennis DeBruler I wonder how deliberately NS has preserved the outline of the roundhouse as a driveway. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4... |
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| Larry Stultz posted Here is an aerial photo taken in the 1940's of the East Altoona train operations. Compass wise it's looking North. From the 7th. Street bridge N. toward Juniata. Do not know the originator however, again probably a Galen Smith product. Enjoy. Lance Myers East Altoona is in the background. On the left-bottom we see the Altoona Car Shops, and left top we see the Juniata Shops. East Altoona complex is in the background at top-center. |
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| Tim Starr posted The Pennsylvania RR's shops at Altoona were the largest in the world for decades, with employment in the 1920s of over 16,000 people. This is just the Altoona Foundries, which was a small part of the combined locomotive repair, locomotive construction, and car shop complexes. (Railway Shop Up To Date, 1907) |
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| Craig Sturgeon posted The famous Juniata Shops at Altoona,PA. Built by the Pennsylvania RR. This shop extends well beyond shot on both sides! This is Norfolk Southerns heavy repair facility. 09/24/2012. |
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| Jim Pearson Photography posted Locomotives galore sit outside the Norfolk Southern Juniata Locomotive Shops in downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania in this birds-eye view on November 3rd, 2021. The shops are just part of the large complex called Altoona Works, or Altoona Terminal on the NS Roanoke District. According to Wikipedia: Altoona Works (also known as Altoona Terminal) is a large railroad industrial complex in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1850 and 1925 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to supply the railroad with locomotives, railroad cars and related equipment. For many years it was the largest railroad shop complex in the world. From the NS Website: At our Juniata locomotive shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Norfolk Southern regularly recycles locomotives into more efficient machines, benefiting both customers and the environment. We can strip a locomotive down to the bare frame and completely rebuild it, including the engine, alternator, wiring, cab, trucks, combos and running gear—all in 6.5 days. NS also operates our own indoor locomotive emissions-testing facility, unique among railroads, which allows us to test locomotives year-round to increase fuel efficiency and meet EPA regulations. Tech Info: DJI Mavic Air 2S Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/120, ISO 120. |
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| From a fascinating collection of Altoona photos, specific link Another photo in that collection is their huge coaling tower I found another view of that coaling tower. |
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| Raymond Storey posted THE PRR ATOONA |
I ruled out the locomotive test lab at Purdue because it looks too old to be test stand. And it didn't look like the lab at Illinois either. According to some comments, this was "in the Rugby Test Plant in the UK." But it was similar to the one in Altoona.
Samuel Walker posted six photos with the comment: "FORTUNE Magazine's May 1935 issue had a feature article about the PRR from Altoona to Pittsburgh. It was illustrated with watercolors by artist Charles Burchfield."
Jud Powell posted three photos with the comment: "PRR Altoona test stand in 1914"
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| Ruby Doobie posted I hope this isn't already on the site. A locomotive on a chassis dynamometer. |
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| AltoonaWorks posted in album: Inside Juniata. |
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| AltoonaWorks posted 9/2016 - SD70ACU rebuild in progress inside the smith shop at the Juniata Shops. www.AltoonaWorks.info Michael Chero Man am I glad you guys do that. I hate wiring....... |
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| Carl Venzke posted Birdseye view of Altoona, Pennsylvania - no date but I have seen similar images that date from the late 1800's of other locations. |
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| Carl Venzke commented on his posting |
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| NS posted
At the Juniata locomotive shop in Altoona, Pa., Norfolk Southern regularly recycles locomotives into more efficient machines, benefiting both customers and the environment. NS can strip a locomotive down to the bare frame and completely rebuild it, including the engine, alternator, wiring, cab, trucks, combos and running gear—all in 6.5 days.
NS also operates its own indoor locomotive emissions-testing facility, unique among railroads. This facility allows NS to test locomotives year-round to increase fuel efficiency and meet EPA regulations
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| HO Diesel Supply posted Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shops, Altoona,PA on 06/12/2018. Photo by Craig Sturgeon. Eric Bitton Wow almost all EMDs, not bad at all |
Samuel Walker posted six photos with the comment: "FORTUNE Magazine's May 1935 issue had a feature article about the PRR from Altoona to Pittsburgh. It was illustrated with watercolors by artist Charles Burchfield."
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| 1 PRR Locomotive Juniata Shops 1935 |
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| 2 Sweating a tire off a drive wheel at the PRR Locomotive Juniata Shops 1935. |
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| 3 The once ubiquitous kersosene light signal lamp on a switch stand lever-throw showing whether the switch was open or closed. |
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| 4 Rose yard for eastbound coal trains at East Altoona in 1935. Brakemen ride the cars down an incline and brake the cars manually into classification tracks. Ahead a yellow small motorcar picks the men up from the classification tracks and shuttles them to the top of the hump. A brakeman sits on the bench with his hickory wood pole awaiting his turn to ride another car using the pole as a lever to help turn the brake wheel. |
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| 5 PRR Pittsburgh passenger trainshed 1935 |
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| 6 From the May 1935 Fortune Magazine there was an advertisement by the Inland Steel Company that illustrated coal car building as it was done in the PRR Shops or other railroad shops at the time. |
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| Douglas Allen comments on a Samuel Walker share The the old PRR Wilmington Shops used a round metal hoop, with numerous holes facing towards the center of the ring. A connector with a flexible Natural Gas hose was affixed to the ring. To remove, or apply, the "tire" (about a 4" thick metal ring, with its flange, fillet, & rim pre-machined to form its shape), to the GG-1 Electric Locomotive Spoke-Drive Wheels... this metal gas-fired ring would be positioned around the tire. The tire would be position almost to the edge of the GG-1's wheel, mounted on an axle. As the gas-fired ring warmed the tire, the metal tire would begin to expand. As the tire started changing color, the Machinist would determine when the tire had reached the required temperature to expand the tire, enough so, to be able to drive the tire, with large malls, onto the wheel assembly. Once the tire was driven to it proper position on the wheel, it would be allow to cool down to near ambient temperature of the Shop. Once cooled, a fixture would be placed over the tire, with a ram to apply pressure to the axle. The piston of the ram would be pressurized to a test pressure, (tonnage predetermined), to assure that the tire was heat-shrunk to the wheel securely. After all, this tire would have to grip tightly to its wheel, as the 230-tons of the GG-1 Locomotive's weight was resting on the 12-Driver Wheels, plus... the generated torque delivered from the Driver's Dual-Armature Traction Motor & Quill Drive Tube assembly. Photo info: Downloaded from the .net, photographer unknown to me A GG-1 Electric Locomotive's Drive/Axle assembly, ready to be installed to a locomotive. Note the tires measurement "4 inches" written with white chalk, on the side of the tire. This would have been done during an inspection by a Machinist Inspector... who determined the Wheel's dimension were "with-in tolerance" to be put into Service. |
Jud Powell posted three photos with the comment: "PRR Altoona test stand in 1914"
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| Larry Stultz posted This is a photo of the #2 Roundhouse at the 12th. St. complex in Altoona. This structure was built in 1854 and was demolished in 1926 to make room for the machine shops built on this site. Photo is courtesy of Jack Eichenlaub. Enjoy. |
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| safe_image for a jigsaw puzzle Juanita Back Shop Bill Tamantini I've heard a lot of stories about that shop. So much innovation created there. kind of like the Skunk Works when it comes to aircraft innovations. This is the first time I have ever seen a shot of this famous shop! |
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| AltoonaWorks posted 5/2021 - Amtrak train 43 passes the Juniata Shops and a fresh C6M rebuild on a spring evening. Randal Hampton shared |
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| AltoonaWorks posted 2/2022 - Overall view of the Juniata Shops from February. http://www.altoonaworks.info/ Randal Hampton shared |
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| Bill Rettberg Jr. posted A slightly different view of the Juniata shop complex. Impressive from any angle. Randall Hampton: Yes, these older buildings are still in use, but everybody wants to focus only on the big one, what I call the square roundhouse. |
This must be an alternator.
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| afnis hernandez, May 2022 |
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A 2:46 video, but it uses the style of a guy hollering at you, so I didn't watch it.
A view of the roundhouse that includes a water tower.
The roundhouse was rather small in the 1860s. The Railroaders Memorial Museum might be in the location of this roundhouse.
A 2:46 video, but it uses the style of a guy hollering at you, so I didn't watch it.
A view of the roundhouse that includes a water tower.
The roundhouse was rather small in the 1860s. The Railroaders Memorial Museum might be in the location of this roundhouse.
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