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Rockland Engine House

The Rockland Engine House is a five-bay wooden frame engine house with a concrete foundation and a steel turntable with wooden decking. Both were built in 1921 by the Maine Central to replace an earlier set and are still in use today.

You can find them at 208 Park St, Rockland, ME 04841, 44°06'04.2"N 69°07'23.8"W. Three bays still have tracks, two have been removed, and the turntable still operates. A nearby yard houses unneeded cars. Although the passenger operations no longer exist, the roundhouse will likely be used by the freight operations and thus be the only wooden roundhouse still in operation by a railroad in the state. A more complete history can be found at waymarking.com