We Found the Roundhouse in Bellevue Ohio

There are a lot of really cool things on the Internet these days and one of them is the ability to see satellite images of places you know or places you want to visit. Chuck is just about the last person you would expect to get into this sort of technology but he enjoys following the railroad tracks to see what's out there, and he found the roundhouse in Bellevue Ohio this way.

Go to http://local.live.com/ then click on the Maps tab under the search box. Type Bellevue Ohio into the search box and you'll see Bellevue come up as if you were looking down on it, and a little push pin will be near the center of town. If you look northeast of center at between 1 and 2 o'clock, you will see a little half moon structure that is at the western end of a rail yard. That's the roundhouse!

Here is a cropped version of MSN's map tool for Bellevue Ohio.

We detoured off the Ohio Turnpike to drive down to Bellevue and find the roundhouse Chuck had seen using MSN's map tool and took a few pictures to share.

First we found our way to the backside of the roundhouse.

Then we found the road leading to the front side of the roundhouse.

Always the courteous railfan, Chuck films without trespassing.

We saw two Norfolk Southern trains go through the area and one robotic local, so it was a cool little stop on our trip.