Straighthouse?

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Well, no, that is not actually a variation of a roundhouse. What you saw 
was an erecting shop with a transfer table - fairly common at shops 
where locomotives were overhauled; but not for running repairs and 
service, which was the function of the roundhouse.    Jim Nichols

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>Although the topic was N&W roundhouses, the Virginian's yard at Princeton held a 

>surprising twist - a straight house with a sliding or rolling bridge to go from stall to stall.

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>I don't remember when it was, pre-2000, when I had some time to see what there was 

>at the Princeton yard.  Finding the gate unlocked (courtesy I discovered later of the 

>Princeton water dept.) I looked around the yard area.

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>It was fascinating to discover this variation of the roundhouse having no idea of it prior 

>to seeing it.  I don't know what's left of anything there.  It was all too apparent vandals 

>had done a lot of damage to the yard and its remaining buildings.

>

>Kim Hensley

>Huntsville, AL

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