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When I lived in Colorado back in 79 there was a small town near my work named Marble that was a mining town back in the early 1900's. They quarried marble of course and it was pretty mountainous terrain. Beautiful country. Anyway, there was a narrow gage RR that they used to bring the dimensional blocks of marble down from the quarry on and at the end of the line in Marble they had a turntable that they used to turn the Steam engine and tender around on to head back up the mountain. The perimeter foundation was still in place in 79 and it was carved out of marble and if I remember correctly it was so well balanced and level that they would push the engine and tender around by hand. Impressive craftmanship.
 
I was thinkin' about that movie the other day when I was hunting for On Any Sunday.
That was one of those Drive In, back of the pickup with lawn chairs, and adult beverage viewings :rolleyes:.
There are some advantages to living in the desert in summer :lol:

jaws said:
Jim Dunn, Funny car summer, to see the story on that car.
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Is that a Milwaukee Road "Skytop" lounge observation car?
 
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Those are called "armstrong" turntables.
 
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