The Altoona Roundhouse
By: S.H.

Photo Courtesy: Gerald Hagen The History of Altoona

A roundhouse is a building that contains a series of stalls that are made to hold locomotives and things like railroad cars. There is an arc built around a center turntable, a bridge rotates from the center point in the hole. A car will be pulled onto the turntable. The turntable rotates until the tracks are lined up with the stalls.