Talk:Railway turntable

message: Just added a citation to an earlier Supreme Court case involving turntables to the Accidents section.  Not sure if we should keep/merge the information with the Chicago B. & Q.R. Co. v. Krayenbuhl case, but I didn't want to just delete the discussion of Krayenbuhl out of hand.  Rdxtion (talk) 23:55, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accidents sub-section 

message: > This is especially true in areas where economic considerations and/or a lack of sufficient space have served to weigh against the construction of a turnaround wye. <
The above reads as if turnaround wyes are the norm. I would submit that, in worldwide terms, turntables are far more commonly used than wyes to turn locomotives. -- Picapica (talk) 12:42, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Point understood.  The WP article, Wye (rail) (see section For turning equipment), points out that there has been a tendency to use wyes more extensively in North America and Australia and why that has been so.  I am of the opinion that the quoted comment is not invalid, per se, and that, perhaps, its deficiency in the area of WP's goal of "non-centrism" could be cured by using it as part of an explicit comparison of North American/Australian practice with rest-of-the-world practice and the reasons for the difference.  In this connection, it would be particularly helpful if someone could provide some kind of historical context - how was the issue of turning equipment handled in, for instance, long-settled areas of Europe before the advent of the turntable?  If you have an idea on how to do that, perhaps you could write an appropriate edit.  NorthCoastReader (talk) 01:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

text: Picapica, you might need to broaden your horizons. Trams with driving cabs only on one end and doors only on one side were common in the mid-twentieth century in Sweden, where I lived for a number of years and where I volunteered on Djurgårdslinjen, where we ran several cars of a type once common in Sweden with those characteristics. Example: . I believe similar cars were used in the other Nordic countries as well. Best regards, Tkynerd (talk) 03:49, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA-centrism 

message: The article says:
* The last remaining 3-gauge turntable in the world, used to station trains into the 23 bay roundhouse, exists at the Steamtown Heritage Centre in Peterborough, South Australia.[15]
The turntable at Brookville Equipment Corporation, a locomotive manufacturer, appears to have 8 rails.  They make mining equipment
as well as standard-gauge locomotives, so they have to handle an
extreme range of gauges.  See this blog post for a photo of the turntable.  The turntable is located here:  .  Most of the tracks into the factory are only dual gauge (standard and Cape Gauge, because that is the most common gauge for mining equipment in North America), but the test track and one track into the factory seem to have all the gauges. Douglas W. Jones (talk) 16:17, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multi-gauge turntable 

message: I'm British, but living in Germany, and I've seen pictures here of a very unusual tt system, consisting of TWO turntables where the pits overlap - I'll try and find one of those pics and post it, I think it was somewhere in Hamburg. Maelli (talk) 09:49, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another very unusual, maybe THE most unusual, tt. 

message: As a page for Sector plate hasn't yet been written up, this seems to be the best place to note that this seems to be an example of a sector plate (OpenStreetMap) in the corner of an industrial site at Thann in France.  It can also be identified on aerial imagery.  Philh-591 (talk) 20:19, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sector plate example 

message: Union Pacific has one next to the (currently idle) locomotive shop at Dallas Yard in El Paso, Texas. CSX has one at the Conway Yard locomotive shop just north of Pittsburgh, Pa. 174.247.250.95 (talk) 02:48, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surviving Class I U. S. Turntables