Backshop 1: (Satellite)
Backshop 2: (Satellite)
Burned Roundhouse: (Satellite)
Freight House: (Satellite, has been removed)
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| HAER WVA,2-MART,1A--10 10. INTERIOR VIEW OF WALLED-OFF SECTION OF LOCOMOTIVE WORK BAY SHOWING MASTER SCALE. - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Martinsburg West Roundhouse, East End of Race & Martin Streets, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, WV Tim Starr posted Inside the B&O enclosed roundhouse at Martinsburg WV. At left is the "master scale." West Roundhouse is a building in the former engine and machine shops complex erected by the B&O in Martinsburg beginning in 1849. Destroyed by Confederate troops in 1861, the existing shops date from 1866. West Roundhouse was one of two identical buildings used for running repairs to locomotives. It is a sixteen-sided, brick-walled polygon covered by a bell-shaped roof over the locomotive turntable, with sixteen wedge-shaped work bays radiating from the turntable. The twin roundhouse was destroyed by arson. Dennis DeBruler: This is one of several photos of that roundhouse: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/wv0255/ |
According to Jim's comment below, the roundhouse we see in this photo is the ruins we see in the above satellite image.
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| Shaun Dorsey posted The Roundhouse in Martinsburg and I belive the passenger station also. Another of my Dad's photos. David Andrew Wieting: [The depot] was a hotel, but after Stonewall Jackson burned up most of the B&O in Martinsburg the hotel became the station. I believe it is still partly in use today as the station. It has been restored with additions made to it. Jim Kelling: This roundhouse burned down about 1990 (arson) but the surviving one is from 1866. Thanks for sharing the photo; I’ve never seen it from this side before. |
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| WVNC Rails posted A B&O passenger train moves through Martinsburg, WV past the west roundhouse and shops circa 1970. B&O E9A #1454 leads this westbound which at this date is probably Train #11, the "Metropolitan". Locomotives have always been the stars of the show but back in the day, the vast array of railroad owned freight cars---as opposed to leaser or privately owned today--were quite interesting in their own right. Library of Congress/HAER image Dennis DeBruler: "What makes the building [roundhouse] unique and architecturally distinctive is its total cast-iron frame of octagonal columns, struts and beams. It is one of the most significant cast-iron framed buildings in the United States. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wv0255/ |
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| Street View, Sep 2019 |
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| Mark Hinsdale posted |
Marty Bernard posted three photos with the comment: "4, 5 and 6. B&O Martinsburg, WV, May 1, 1971. Scott Armentrout photo, Bill Howes collection."
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I find it interesting that B&O covered the middle of their roundhouses.
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| Street View, Sep 2019 |
The roundhouse is now an interesting event space.
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| Raul Torres, Oct 2021 |
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| TheMartinsburgRoundhouse |
Obviously, a freight house.
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| Neil Currin, Jun 2017 |
In the next street view, Aug 2021, the freight house is gone.
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| Street View, Oct 2019 |
This topo map does not show the freight house, but it does show the spur that comes down the grade and crosses the street. It looks like the burned roundhouse also had its middle covered.
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| 1955 Martinsburg Quad @ 24,000 |
This appears to be the rectangular building that is between the two roundhouses. Given the forge, I presume this was the Frog & Switch Blacksmith Shop. So I conclude that the rectangular building that is north of the roundhouse is the Bridge & Machine Shop. [rental-rates]
They evidently sometimes move the caboose onto the turntable as a photo opportunity.
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| Dolly Fergus, Apr 2017 |
They evidently sometimes move the caboose onto the turntable as a photo opportunity.
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| 1 of 5 photos posted by Martinsburg Roundhouse Wm Whittington shared Martinsburg, WV Roundhouse. Dennis DeBruler shared Dennis DeBruler: It is a "decoration" in an event space: https://www.roundhousewv.com/roundhouserental Kyle McGrogan: Note the angled cast iron columns and rings at the various levels to support the roof. This was rebuilt and enlarged after the Civil War in 1866 to B&O Engineer Albert Fink's design. The building was based on one in Germany. There was a second one like this right next to this one , built in 1875, but it was destroyed in a case of arson before the Berkeley Country Roundhouse Authority took the site over. |
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