Age of Steam Roundhouse


The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum, Sugarcreek, Ohio, United States, is a museum roundhouse housing steam and diesel locomotives, passenger cars and other railroad equipment.

History

The roundhouse was built by Jerry Joe Jacobson, former CEO of the Ohio Central Railroad System. In October 2008, Jacobson sold his interest in OCRS to Genesee & Wyoming, including the track, modern equipment, and most of the workshops and depots. Jacobson kept a collection of vintage steam and diesel locomotives, other old equipment, and a depot at Sugarcreek, Ohio. He bought 34 acres in Sugarcreek and began constructing a roundhouse to house his collection. The roundhouse building was completed in 2011 and all of the steam locomotives, along with a few other select pieces of rolling stock in Jacobson's collection, were moved inside the roundhouse that same year. It was the "first large roundhouse built in the United States since 1951," with the previous building being Nickel Plate Road's roundhouse in its Calumet Yard. As of 2012, the Age of Steam Roundhouse's website outlines its goals as:
The project was paid for by Jacobson and his wife, Laura. They set up an endowment to support the museum.. Architect F. A. Goodman says the building is 48,000 square feet and of "solid masonry walls" and "heavy timber framing". It has 18 stalls, each of which is large enough for a locomotive and its tender. The Goodman company says the roundhouse is one of the largest heavy timber structures in America.

Steam locomotives

Diesel locomotives

NumberHeritageModelNotesPicture
14Newburgh & South Shore RailroadS2
84Great NorthernS2Painted in fictional Nickel Plate Road livery
100Southern PacificS2
101Norfolk & WesternS2
102Norfolk & WesternS2
1663South Buffalo RailwayS2
1782S2
18South Buffalo RailwayS4
9100Baltimore & OhioS4
400Monongahela Connecting RailroadT6
1077Long Island Rail RoadRS3
4099Delaware & HudsonRS3From Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad
1800Erie Mining Co.RS18Named "Chappy"
7230Erie Mining Co.C424

EMD
NumberHeritageModelNotesPicture
211Detroit EdisonSW1
212Detroit EdisonSW1
736New York CentralSW1
82Montour RailroadSW9
556Atchison, Topeka & Santa FeSW1200
1202Aliquippa & SouthernSW1200Leased to Grand River Railway
1203WabashSW1200
1205Aliquippa & SouthernSW1200Leased to Grand River Railway
1501Pittsburgh & Lake ErieGP7
452AmtrakF40M-2C
460AmtrakF40M-2C

Fairbanks-Morse
NumberHeritageModelNotesPicture
1802Yankeetown DockH12-44
1852United States ArmyH12-44

General Electric
NumberHeritageModelNotesPicture
4Bethlehem Steel Johnstown Works25-Ton