{"id":4052,"date":"2024-12-29T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2024-12-29T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T22:08:02","slug":"alm-turntable-at-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2024\/12\/29\/alm-turntable-at-monroe\/","title":{"rendered":"A&LM Turntable at Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Railroad had their shops in Monroe, Louisiana. Mike Palmieri made a visit there back in February of 1977 and recorded this view of the road’s tired, but serviceable turntable in front of the roundhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turntable appears to be an “Armstrong” type, in that it is rotated by personnel pushing on the bent-up pole seen in the foreground projecting out from the bridge. I’ve actually done this myself on the Reader Railroad’s turntable up in Arkansas (great fun for a railfan, perhaps not so much for an employee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note the pit is somewhat filled with water. I visited this facility myself many years later, perhaps the early 90s, and seem to recall that the pit was filled with water then. If it stays that way, I can’t help but wonder what shape the table bearings are in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edit: Ron Findley reminded me of some dates. He and I visited the road in May of 1989. Here is a photo of the roundhouse taken by Ron in May of 1989. The turntable was still in place at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He and I again visited during an NRHS-SELA Chapter excursion on the now Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad in November of1992 (Georgia-Pacific had purchased the road by that time and renamed it). By that time the turntable pit had been filled in and the bridge lay on the ground nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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