Saturday, October 14, 2023

Rapid City, SD: Milwaukee Depot & Freight House, C&NW Roundhouse and Old Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite)
Freight House: (3D Satellite)
C&NW Roundhouse: (3D Satellite, the city now uses it as a garage for their street maintenance equipment.)
Feed Mill: (Satellite)
Old Grain Elevator: (Satellite, it has been repurposed as a restaurant)

The Milwaukee depot was a Mexican restaurant.
Street View, Aug 2019

It has been remodelled into a...
Street View, Oct 2021

...real estate agency office.
Dave Salamon post

It is so nice that they retained the sign.
Street View, Dec 2021

Street View, Dec 2021

C&NW roundhouse:
Street View, Aug 2019

Obviously the old grain elevator is on the right. And on the left is the feed mill.
Street View, Jan 2022

Before it was a restaurant.
Photo, Nov 2021

I wonder if the feed mill repurposed a flour mill because most feed mills don't have such a big building. Also note the old elevator in the center of the complex. And the covered hopper indicates it gets rail service. The tracks that remain in the city were C&NW, and they are now the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCP&E). The abandoned Milwaukee tracks were a block north. 
Street View, Dec 2021

Several of the street views showed cars spotted at the mill.
Street View, Sep 2011

1953 Rapid City East Quad @ 24,000

Wesley Peters posted
Grain Elevator Photography Trip, 2024- Day 1, South Dakota.
Rapid City, Pennington County, SD.
River Mill Co. Built in 1890. 50,000-bushel capacity. Features a largely intact Trisco Feeds advertising sign. One of the oldest wooden grain elevators in South Dakota.
Photographed on 7/7/2024.
Photo courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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