This yard is now an intermodal yard.
Some sources call this a Soo Line railyard. That is why these notes have both the rrMilw and rrWC labels.
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| Tim Starr posted Nice to see roundhouses that were repurposed for the diesel age instead of being torn down right away. This was the Shoreham yard and shops of the Soo Line (Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saulte Ste. Marie) in Minneapolis MN, circa 1980s. Gone now, unfortunately. (Hennepin County Library) |
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| Ronald Kaminen posted I just found this from the Hennepin County Library. Shoreham Shops, in Minneapolis, MN.!! The year shown is 1988.!! |
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| Sam Carlson posted The Red Roof Inn! We were bummed out we couldn't find the caboose track. The only caboose we found was this red roofer, SOO 66 which was almost brand new in August 1973. Sam Carlson: We were looking for the hack track at Shoreham, if there was one. Dennis DeBruler shared This was taken in the Milwaukee Shoreham railyard in Minneapolis, MN. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on his share The Shoreham yard is now an intermodal yard. https://www.google.com/maps/@45.0195115,-93.258379,1923m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |
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| Tim Starr posted Soo Line Shoreham Shops and terminal in Minneapolis in 1946. (Aerial Photo Service, Minneapolis Star Journal) |
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| 1952 North Minneapolis and New Brighton Quads @ 24,000 |
Part of the roundhouse lasted until 2019.
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| mynortheaster, photo courtesy of Charlene Roise, cropped |
Since the roundhouse made it into the 21st Century, I fired up Google Earth.
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| Google Earth, Apr 1991 |
Note that part of the roundhouse had already been removed in 1991. The cartographer did not catch that.
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| 1991 New Brighton Quad @ 24,000 |
The last Google Earth image that has the roundhouse.
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| Google Earth, Jun 2019 |
The former Soo Line Shoreham roundhouse and adjacent diesel shop in Minneapolis is being demolished. The Soo Line used these facilities through the early 1990s. When Canadian Pacific built a new diesel shop at the Milwaukee Road Yard in St. Paul, operations were shifted out of Shoreham. Although the Minneapolis Heritage Commission designated the roundhouse a Minneapolis Landmark, no other uses were found for the structure and it continued to deteriorate. CP needs the Shoreham site to expand its intermodal operations.Demolition of the Shoreham roundhouse leaves the following roundhouses in the Twin Cities:1) CP (ex-Milwaukee Road) in St. Paul2) Minnesota Commercial (ex-Minnesota Transfer Railway) in the Midway area of St. Paul3) Minnesota Transportation Museum (ex-Great Northern) at Jackson Street near Downtown St. Paul (worth a visit)This information is from today's Trains.com Newswire:
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| Tim Starr posted Aerial view of the Soo Line roundhouse and shops in the Columbia Park vicinity of Minneapolis, 1938. The pilot flew in pretty close to take this shot. Dennis DeBruler: I presume the long, white stripe down the center of this aerial photo was a transfer table. |
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