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Railway Turntable
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Description: "Industrial-railway Turn-table. a, circular base with channel for ball-bearing, showing ring of balls; b, under side of table; c, table in position, showing cross-tracks; d, latch for cover. A car is run by hand on the turn-table, the table turned one quarter of the way round, and the car run off on a track at right angles to the first track." -Whitney, 1911
Source: Whitney, William Dwight The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York: The Century Co., 1911) 8: supplement, rail-feeder - rain
Keywords: railroad track, rail turntable, turn-table, turn table, rolling stock, locomotives, train tracks, railway, ball bearings, industrial
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