Waterloo, IA: IC Roundhouse, Backshop and Icing Platform

William Brown posted
The IC Waterloo, Iowa Roundhouse around 1900. By CC&P times [1985] the Backshop Building at the far left center, the Smoke Stack and the small Roundhouse on the back right was all that was left. An Amazon Postcard cleanup with Photo Shop.

Satellite

What William refers to as the "small roundhouse" still exists. It turns out he is measuring size in terms of the arc size. The 360-degree roundhouse was small in terms of the length of the stalls. The 1963 Historic Aerials has the best view of the engine servicing area when it still had both roundhouses. If you look at 1937 and 1952 as well, you will see that the top roundhouse started with short stalls along the road and was built clockwise as they added longer stalls on the right side and tore down the shorter stalls on the left side.

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Gary Miller posted
Old postcard showing ICRR rail operations in Waterloo, Iowa.

Francisco Lacy Does it have two round houses?
Dennis DeBruler commented on Franciso's comment on Gary's post
It did have. The smaller one would have been the older one. The oldest detail topo map I can find is 1963. By then the older one had been torn down and the newer one had been "downsized" to what we see today.

John W Dodge posted
Wateroo Iowa Illinois Central Roundhouse.
John W Dodge I believe in the 40's..Cliff Downey Roundhouse photos are rare, but photos of car shops from that era are almost non-existant! Thanks for sharing!

Illinois Central Railroad Scrapbook posted
IC's ice dock at Waterloo, IA, photographed April 16, 1919. This photo was taken shortly after the structure was completed but before it was put into service.
Detailed info about construction of the ice dock, with more photos, can be found at https://books.google.com/books…
Dennis DeBruler I've seen more photos of transfer tables than ice docks. Nice find.

Bob Chaparro posted

Action On An Icing Platform

Doug Harding provided this photo.

He commented:

One of my favorite photos showing a meat reefer being iced. You can clearly see the salt box on the deck, next to the leg. Taken in Waterloo IA at the IC ice dock.

My Notes:

Armour meat reefer.

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Bob Chaparro posted with the same comment

William Brown posted six photos with the comment: "From 1988 until 1993, I lived in the Waterloo, Iowa area.  I came across this old Postcard of the Illinois Central Shops on the 1900s.  The Satellite Shop shows the Canadian National today.  The Long Grey Buildings on the upper right are Ice Houses for Ice Harvested out of the Cedar River.  It was used for icing Reefers coming from the West.  Only two portions of the right Roundhouse remain."

Brian Lowe: The Ice house serviced both east and west manifests. My father told me that there was a stock pen on the north side of the yards and a sheep pen east on top of the hill at hill top.

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