Saturday, March 30, 2024

St. Paul, MN: Northern Pacific Backshops, Water Tower and Coaling Tower

Transfer Table: (Satellite, 891 photos)

Street View, Jun 2019

Street View, May 2023

10 of the 35 images posted by Cody Wangen with the comment: "Built in 1885 and being the np s major car shop east of the rockies to help service and maintain its 1100 passenger cars it consists of 4 major buildings all still very much intact . The cross shaped building being the wood shop to build and replace the wood sided passenger cars. The building next to it with the large array of Chimneys was the original blacksmith shop were anything and everything could  be repaired and manufactured.  The large buildings in the middle with the turntable are the car shops with 1902 transfer table.  It also includes the water tank snd sanding tower. It is beyond cool that such a huge complex was saved and not turned into a parking lot and is now a hotel you can stay In that were staying in tonight. All these bricks are yellow colored coming from little falls mn the same place the np shops in Brainerd got they're bricks from. If your ever in como park in st paul I'd highly recommend stopping here and checking it out it is really neat to sww it all preserved."
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Cody's post
1953 St Paul West Quad @ 24,000
Transfer Table: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gvz2UXJjs5BzcVrX7


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