Connecticut Valley Railroad Roundhouse and Turntable Site, railway station in Old Saybrook, the United States of America
The Connecticut Valley Railroad Roundhouse and Turntable Site is a railway facility from the 19th century in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The grounds contain the foundations of a roundhouse with six bays where locomotives were repaired, and a circular concrete turntable used to turn the engines around.
The site was built in 1871 and was part of the Connecticut Valley Railroad, established in 1868, which operated trains between Saybrook Point and Hartford. Service on this line ended in 1922, and the buildings were subsequently abandoned.
The site is located in Fort Saybrook Monument Park near Main Street and is easily accessible for walking. Interpretive signs on the grounds explain the history and use of the facility, helping visitors understand the railroad's past operations.
The site is remarkable because it is the only surviving part of a much larger railway complex that once included an icehouse, coal bin, steamboat dock, station, and signal tower. Archaeologists believe the remains of these vanished structures are still buried beneath the park and surrounding land.
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