Southern Turntable: (Satellite)
Original NS Turntable: (Satellite)
Union Depot: (Satellite)
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| safe_image for Instagram "Hidden behind a tangle of weeds and gravel off Peace Street, Raleigh has a forgotten piece of its history: an 1883 railroad turntable. Once the largest of its kind in the state, this 55-foot turntable served as a giant rotating platform for locomotives in an era when Raleigh’s population was just 9,000 and advertisements featured deals on hosiery gloves and bicycle shirts. Today, this historic turntable, now owned by CSX, is possibly the oldest machine in Raleigh still performing its original function." |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Hugh's post It looks like this was always just a turntable. That is, there wasn't a roundhouse here. 1951/52 Raleigh Quad @ 62,500 |
Zack Bangalter posted three photos with the comment: "Just south of CSX’s Raleigh yard is an old turntable from when the Seaboard Air Line called that yard home. Still accessible from State Route 401, you’ll have to drive past a garage and up a gravel driveway to get to it. It’s been extensibly tagged with graffiti, and I believe there might be a homeless person or two living nearby, as part of the steel cable around it was serving as a makeshift clothesline today. It’s also pretty full of water since Helene just came through the other day, but other than that, there’s not really much damage done to the turntable itself"
Jeffrey Smith: it's not abandoned they still use it to turn the Power on L619 & L620 what trails on 620 gets spun and leads 619 back.
L619 & L620 are Monday through Friday locals
L619 ( Raleigh NC to Hamlet NC )
L620 ( Hamlet NC to Raleigh NC )
Both swap crews at Moncure
The 620 crew comes back on 619 and the 619 crew returns on 620
Both usually work
Ador
Sanford ( A&W ) interchange
Aberdeen NC ( AC&W ) interchange
Along the way.
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| Dave Kuntz Drone Photos posted Closeup of the Raleigh Seaboard turntable |
Southern Turntable
Dave Kuntz Drone Photos posted four photos with the comment: "Hidden amongst the weeds and bumping against the tracks merely a stone's throw from Raleigh NC Union Station is a rather astonishing find - a filled in turntable pit. It is visible from the city's famous Boylan Bridge, although even few locals know about it. Can you find it in the top picture?"
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Dave's post Not until I found a Mar 2021 satellite image without as many leaves on the trees. It is south of the signalling bridge, https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jy8WTT6iG9yn4DFq6, or in the lower-right corner of your first photo. |
I think it was a Southern Railroad turntable. Southern went east/west, and Norfolk Southern went north/south. SAL terminated in this town.
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| 1953/65 Raleigh Quad @ 250,000 |
There wasn't a roundhouse here, just the turntable.
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| May 9, 1951 @ 58,000; ARA007106609214 |
Original Norfolk Southern Roundhouse
Dave Kuntz Drone Photos posted four photos with the comment: "This distinctive semicircle in the ground is all that remains of the turntable and roundhouse at NS Glenwood Yard north of downtown Raleigh, NC. The pit has been filled in and it's a storage area for spare railroad crossing signals."
Will Davis: In 1980, there was going to be a Southern steam excursion leaving Raleigh on a Saturday morning. I found out that the locomotive would be coming into Raleigh late Friday night and found out where it would be staying the night. It was right by where this old turntable site was. Only a handful of steam locomotive buffs were present when the locomotive came in to Raleigh. I waited until everyone else had left, and them began talking to the engineer. Don’t recall where the fireman went off to, but the engineer soon asked me if I wanted to come up into the cab. Of course I said yes. He began to show me all of the controls, which I already knew but didn’t say. And THEN. he said he had to go to use the toilet and asked me if I would stay with the engine while he was gone. And of course, I said yes. I realized that if I had wanted to, I could have taken off with a fired up steam locomotive. 😄
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Union Station
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| Street View, Jan 2026 |
I'm glad to see the platform cover.
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| Street View, Apr 2019 |
This view caught a train in the station.
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| Street View, Jan 2016 |
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