Railway Roundhouse - Petoskey to Greenfield - Michigan, USA.
N 42° 18.402 W 083° 13.788
17T E 316218 N 4686237
This is a functioning railway turntable & roundhouse relocated from Petoskey, Michigan to Greenfield Village in the Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.
Waymark Code: WMHB32
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 06/18/2013
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The Detroit Bridge and Iron Works built the hand-operated turntable in 1901 for the Pere Marquette Railroad roundhouse in Petoskey, Michigan.
The restored Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee (DT&M) roundhouse, located now at Greenfield Village (the outdoor museum partner of the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan.
"The Pere Marquette Railway (PM) was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The railroad had tracks in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Buffalo, New York, Toledo, Ohio and Chicago." Text Source: (
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"The turntable, from Petoskey, Michigan, enables a locomotive to be turned in a circle so that it can run in the opposite direction. Such turntables were usually located outside a "roundhouse" used for housing and repairing locomotives. On arrival, a locomotive was detached from its train, turned to its desired direction and headed either for a new destination or to the roundhouse for repair. Turntables are balanced so precisely that only two people are needed to turn the biggest and heaviest locomotives." Text Source: (
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