Awesome Turntable Action on the Western Maryland Scenic Railway 

What a gentleman, with his vest, tie and cap. A professional and proud of his work.

That turn table moved a lot faster than I thought it would.

Your laugh and enthusiasm makes me smile all the time. Newer seen a turntable in action before, nice. Thank you for a good and relaxing video 🙂

Very cool! That toundabout moves pretty quickly! Thanks Dave! Love the laugh...happiness 😊

Several years ago my Daughter and I bicycled a lot of the GAP trail. We got from Cumberland to a little past Ohiopyle, Pa. We camped up on the hill behind the turntable, ate in the little restaurant there. One morning we cycled to Cumberland and rode Mountain Thunder back. A truly memorable adventure. The last day of our trip, we camped in Ohiopyle and rafted the river.

Thank you for bringing us this excellent video, it was great to see the turntable at work. The locomotive looks and sounds great and those railbikes look a lot of fun. Thank you for bringing us along.

Welcome to Western Maryland! Glad you enjoyed our train history and our beautiful Appalachian mountains! Life is good here! 🤗🌄🌲🌳🌲🌳🌄🚂🚃

That turntable was fascinating! I'd love to see the mechanism that powers it... Thanks as always for the close up action!

Love the F40PH's. Amtrak's workhorse for years. Still plenty in revenue service. Dallas / Fort Worth area's Trinity Railway Express just picked up a pair of F40's and painted them up in their beautiful Texas flag livery.

Thank you for inviting me to your channel. We were just there this past fall and friends got engaged at the head end of the train during the layover.

Neat that they have that old Amtrak F40PH there. I especially like that it is one of the units converted to freight locomotives after Amtrak sold it, now called an F40M-2F. When they were converted, they cut the length of the nose back to create a front walkway/platform and also added a door in the nose for the crews to enter the cab. In addition, the original small fuel tanks were swapped for larger 2,900-gallon tanks and the gear ratios were changed from high-speed passenger gearing to freight friendly 65-mph gearing. Neat engines! As for the turntable action, you and I Dave, we're Johnny's-on-the-spot for getting the best spot to capture the action there. That is exactly where I would've stood if I were shooting the video! Showing the workings of the turntable and the engine crossing onto it. And those Railbikes at the end were so fun looking! I want to ride those too. Thanks for sharing these neat scenes buddy.

First time I saw a turntable close-up, in action, and a mini-turntable for a bonus. That was just great, thank you! I heard or read somewhere that there now are locomotives with two front ends (or two back ends, depending on one's point of view).

Great video Mr. Dave! Your laugh always puts a smile on my face and my husband's. Thank you for sharing your adventures with all of us. You and your wife make life so much better!!!

Loved to hear your "That's railroadin!'" laugh This is something totally new to me. I knew round tables (as my dad called them) existed, but never saw one in action - until now. Thanks for sharing! -claps like excited kid-😁

I enjoyed watching the turntable in action and how the young man was able to align the tracks properly

very cool! love the shot of the manual alignment of the bridge tracks, always wondered, now I know!

Young people have NO Clue what we’re talking about when we say Turntables used back in the day for both Albums and Trains. 🤪👍

Thank you for another great video on turn tables. The rail road has so much history. You have taught me so much about what it takes to maintain the tracks. Also the history of the railroad. Hope you are haveing a great day. 😀❤🇨🇦

Thanks for the video! That turntable is fast. The one at AOS probably moves half that speed, and it was originally a WM turntable. It was really nice to see the conductor training the younger generation. I have been to many places where the staff does not want to train the younger folks from fear of loosing seniority and the "fun jobs".

Another fun excursion. The turn table was quite the invention. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your adventures! You always have neat things to show and share! My nephew, only 5, absolutely loves your adventures!

Thank you for sharing Dave! I really enjoyed the ride and the turntable demonstration. You do a great job!

The CN Speeder reminded me of a National Film Board of Canada short (24 min) made in 1965. It was Buster Keaton's last role, and of course it's silent. It's vintage Buster. I think the film was designed for Canada's Centennial in '67, they showed it to us kids in school. Basically a coast to coast view of Canada by rail, with Keaton's comedic genius. Available on RU-vid, "The Railrodder".

This was wonderful, Dave. Gorgeous area. Thanks very much!!

Love the red and blue paint scheme on that loco.

As a former bicycle racer I would love to try those cyclist powered rail carts!

That was a great video. I have never actually seen a turntable in action. Lots of pics of before and after. This was very cool! Thank you. :)

Nice! Thanks! We've never seen a turntable up close and personal like that before! Hope you and the Missus had a great time!

Great video ! I appreciate you bringing us along. Awesome turntable ! Thank You

As usual, you put a smile on my face and in my heart. Just had my 31st anniversary on the 18th. Thanks for the joy you bring me.

Very nice, loved the commentary plus those cool turntables and that sweet sounding heritage unit, excellent video thanks for sharing 👌👍

Great action on the turntable Dave, love seeing them operate, could watch that all day. The track bikes are getting very popular, starting to see them more and more, got a few in west virginia now, but thats the first bike turntable I've seen, they usually just 2 person pick them. That definitely saves on the back. Another awesome video, thank you sir.

Beautiful scenery

Great video Dave of the turntable to send you back to Cumberland! Those little pedal rail carts were so cool to see as well as the CN SPEEDER! Hope you both had an amazing day on your train ride and we're going this fall! Thanks again for sharing your videos along with your time and effort to get the BEST FOOTAGE!

Love seeing the turntables! I would love to go on the "bike". The scenery there is very pretty!

Hi Dave pretty cool to see this turntable working. This place is on my list to visit. Looks like you had nice weather and a great time. Sure is some beautiful scenery out there .

Dave, another great video! That turn was smooth as silk. Great closeups. Thanks for always taking us along for the ride. Have a great evening.

That was cool! Nice trip Dave. I would love to pedal one of those carts sometime. Thanks Dave!

Something so simple and very proficient even in the twenty-three century

Looks like your having fun thank you for the video and I'm asking our God to bless you and your family.

I have never seen an up close train on a turntable. Thanks.

The colors on that loco really stands out.

I live in Frostburg and I have seen this operation many times. Still find it an amazing feat of engineering to spin a train that big.

Oh crap, it's you ccrx! I hope your day is full of great memories.

Great video Dave, I love turntables! I've said it before, but I used to live a couple of blocks from the Milwaukee Road turntable (headquarters and a ton of other buildings and track were there as well), so seeing a train on a turntable brings back fond memories 😊

Thats awesome! It spun around a lot faster than I anticipated

I was there in 2009! I really should go back and enjoy it some more! :D

Ohhh that's just to cool for school. Great addition on a shelf switching layout. Great post Dave🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲

When I see this video, my heart warms. Turntables in action are always nice to look at. In May, after 2 years of corona break, the time of steam locomotive-guided special trains to the Berlin Museum of Transport and Technology finally begins again. As a thank you, I will also upload videos of it. Thank you and Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven

Nice, cool to see the workings of a turntable in action. The museum I used to work at still uses a 3 way stub switch in the yard. It's 3 foot gauge, i believe its 90 pound rail, and the furthest east of it's kind still in use, being in New Jersey..

Awesome video Dave, it's cool see the things that make the railroad work!!!👍👍👍👍

Wow turntable action. Something you don't see every day. The closes one we had to me was in Fulton KY on the old Illinois Central RR it's the Canadian National RR now. Sadly it gone now. Thanks for such a wonderful video.

Well that was fun! Love those mountains.

Need to get the power washer out for that locomotive. Get the kids to give it some Shiny Shine. LMAO. Stay Safe out There. 🇺🇸👍👍

Getting harder to find operating TTs these days. No room for error and you better be straight on. Was always amazing how a Big Boy could fit with maybe a foot to spare on both ends. Equally amazing on branch lines was how they'd get the steamer on there and if balanced correctly three guys could easily turn it. Good memories.

Interesting that the turntable is motorized but the lock is Armstrong powered. Back when I lived in Connecticut, I volunteered at a small railroad museum. We reactivated an abandoned turntable that had been filled in with the rubble from a former roundhouse. We found an actual turntable bridge at another railroad and reinstalled it. The pit walks and rail were still there after we uncovered them. It’s used now to switch tracks into the now rebuilt roundhouse. It was Columbia Roundhouse on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, predecessor of the New Haven Railroad.

Never seen a turntable in action. Very cool!

Great video Dave. I always enjoy watching your videos. Have a great day.

Wow that was cool to wach the turnaround for the engine

Really cool, one of first features as a kid, loved it, have never seen one in action, live.

Thank you for sharing this trip.😃

Wow, never seen a turntable in action. Thanks Dave!

That was awesome to see! Thanks Dave...🚂

The last time we were there we had to manually turn the turntable. It was awesome!!!

Loved the turntable. I don't see those much anymore.

This was awesome Dave, I really want to do this scenic rail tour this summer. Maybe while in Frostburg I’ll shoot down to Cumberland and check out the CSX Cumberland Yard, I’m sure you know of it, a pretty decent sized hump yard right off of 68 along Route 51. Thanks for posting, have a great evening 👍🏼😎🇺🇸

Another fantastic video Dave and , as always, thanks so much for posting it! Isn't it great getting a chance to enjoy watching how everything works without having to fix it yourself? Lol

That turntable lock could use a little graphite. Appears to be 90lb rail on the table. NYS&W used to have a turntable at Little Ferry, NJ. I don't know if it still exists since that was back in the 1980's. Several of us boomed on the NYS&W (now you sit and wait) during our ConRail days before we went over to NJT. All of us had to learn to use the table. Wonderful video as always, keep them coming!

You better be aligned when a 200 ton locomotive rolls out!

Thank you Dave I have seen turntables at Altoona RR museum but I have never seen one in use keep up the videos really enjoy them

I helped build a turntable when I worked at the N&W railroad in Roanoke Virginia in the early 1970s it was at Shaffers Crossing for those that know about the N&W

Thanks for that treat.

Very cool!!! Thank you!!!

Awesome video Dave thanks

Stub switches are great for yards!

In 1995 there used to an abandoned turn table with a set of truck wheels behind the old Rickwell pipe plant in Penargyl Pennsylvania still had power to it and would turn things like that are amazing and was ashame that it was abandoned it hurt to see that way and operational

Great close up view of the turntable It took off like a rocket I did not expect that LOL. Over here we are lucky to have a few still working and I saw one at the weekend unfortunately I missed getting video of the steam locomotive being turned though. The railbikes look fun There were some at a railway in Belgium I went to and I hoped to have a go on one but there was not time that day.

ooo i love the colors.

Pretty neat. Thanks .....

Nice dave, looks like your having fun

Awesome Dave, that turntable is seriously cool! You sure don't see a F40 on a turn table every day!

They use to ask for help to push the turn table by hand. It was unique experience in balance to push a Steam locomotive.

Thanks for the video

That was awesome to see

Great video Dave! I think you are wearing off on me … pilot derailed his pickup on a garage back track they wanted me to run over. When he called us on the radio to tell us to stop and step off and that he derailed I replied with “That’s Railroadin!” 😂🤣 He then tried to back up straddling the rail but got stuck in the mud. Tie conditions? What ties? 😉🤣😂 I’m glad we didn’t put the giant yellow turd on the ground!

Very cool nice

My engineer sir. Very Beautifull is view of the surprise.. For this different of railway turning table. 🚅🚞❤️🚃🚃🧡🚃🚃💛🚃🚃💚🚃🚃

VERY cool video!

Cool👍👍🚂

I don’t know if you seen it Dave but behind that turntable is a tunnel that goes under Frostburg for the former main that followed, I believe, Maryland 36 down to Westernport Maryland. I think that was originally George’s Creek railroad. Of course the GAP trail down the hill was the Weatern Maryland before being abandoned in May of 1975, which was about 6 years before I came along.

That turntable looks to have upgrades. Don't ask me how, but back in the late '60s my husband tipped an engine over on one of these, guess who was unemployed after that, LoL 😂. If he was still alive I would ask him

Nice Video.

I have always love rail yards with engine houses and Turn tables. but on a scale layout it takes up a lot of space. My late father built an engine house and had one

that was interesting

Nice

Cool turntable action Dave! You need one of those pedal things on your RR

Àwesome don't see that every day

😃 All aboard!!!

Been loving your videos!. Just wondering a little about the hi rail trucks, mostly on if the vehicle's weight rides on the rails or if the rails just guide it and how they embark and disembark the rail (a video on this would be great)

The tennessee Valley Railroad museum here in Chattanooga has a turntable the missionary ridge local trip takes you to the maintenance shop where they do maintenance and inspections on the loccomotives during the winter time you can also take a tour of the shop