Sioux City, IA: 1918-1981 Museum/Milwaukee Roundhouse and Shops

Museum/Roundhouse: (Satellite, 944 photos)

Shops: (Satellite, 21 photos)

Street View, May 2024

Ken Brown, May 2014

Milwaukee Road Project Flickr
908 Aug 14, 1963 Sioux City, IA 013

When you play the video, you can see there is a third train coming in the background between the truss and the wall.

Bob Larson, Oct 2023

Preston Melbourneweaver, Jul 2023

While checking out the flood damage of the nearby bridge, I found this museum on the map. The flood has impacted the museum. Two comments by Ben Brown on a post.

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This Pic of the turntable and Roundhouse was taken about 6 pm Sunday. The crest is expected about 7 am Monday.

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Here's a Pic of the engineers tool shed and the machine/Blacksmith Shop in the background. Tonight, the parking lot in the foreground is now submerged as well.

Aaron Downhour: lots of water damage coming to those cars, hopefully they are able to get them dried out quickly, still lots of rework to any restoration work that was already done on that equipment.

"In 1995, the City of Sioux City and the Siouxland Historical Railroad Association entered into a development agreement to preserve the Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District. The City of Sioux City’s urban renewal planning effort in 1991 for the Riverside Neighborhood identified and recommended a potential redevelopment of the Milwaukee Railroad Shops Historic District as a historical attraction. The Siouxland Historical Railroad Association bought the Milwaukee Railroad Shops in December 1995 with the aid of federal funds administered by the City of Sioux City." [SiouxCityRailroadMuseum] The Milwaukee Road route itself is now owned by the DAIR. See the bridge notes for more information on the DAIR.

Alvord, IA: BNSF derailment due to flooding

(Satellite)

Part of some widespread flooding.

This is on a former Great Northern route. 

2 of several photos from ktiv:

a, Warrior Sports Photography

b, KIWA
[How long does it take for the investigators to see the track washout that a KIWA reporter has already seen?]

“BNSF can confirm at approximately 03:30 a.m. CST Friday, June 21, a train derailed in Alvord, Iowa, affecting the main track. There are no injuries and no threat to the public. BNSF personnel are on site working to clear the incident as quickly and safely as possible. The cause is under investigation.”

Official statement from BNSF

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Charles Vandergriff posted

Thomas Tarantella: This is what happens when the dispatcher can't wait for the track patrol to confirm the way is safe.

Pay now or pay later.

The dispatcher knew of water in the area.

So what you save? You could have killed the crew!

Corunna, MI: GTW & Ann Arbor Depots and Two Wood Grain Elevators

GTW Depot: (Satellite)

AA Depot: (Satellite)

Elevator: (Satellite, it is now a feed mill)

Alon Delores posted three photos with the comment:

GTW Corunna MI Depot, GTW Corunna MI Depot, AA Corunna Depot 

Corunna was settled about 1836 in Shiawassee County. It became the county seat in 1840, a village in 1858 and a city in 1869. [MPN]

Corunna is located about three miles east of downtown Owosso, and was served by both the Grand Trunk Western and Ann Arbor railroads.

Photo Info: Top and 2nd photo, the Grand Trunk Western depot at Corunna. This was known as a "Witch's Hat" depot design. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd photo, the Ann Arbor depot at Corunna, with two passing trains in the photo. An elevator appears to be across the track from the depot. [CMUL]

Notes

The GT depot here was of a "witches hat" design, similar to GTW depots in South Lyon and Saranac.

Time Line

1898. February. Burglars went through the Corunna railroad station. The automatic gum machine was smashed and $1.98 in cents taken, also the agent's revolver. Depots at Owosso and Vernon were also broken into. [CCA-1898-0210]

1900. This is a telegraph station on the Ann Arbor railroad. [OG-1900]

1918. The AARR had a daytime station agent here, as did the GTW. [TRT].

[Alon's description has the second and third photos interchanged.]

Carrie Hastings-Cody: Being new to Corunna, where was this located?

Mike Boudro: Carrie Hastings-Cody The fire insurance map from 1908 has it placed along the Ann Arbor's track on Shiawassee St. south of the main drag of town. The Ann Arbor track has since been pulled up.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4114cm.g039771908/?sp=1&r=-0.583,-0.017,2.165,1.315,0

Effectively across the street from where the Corunna VFW currently sits, on what is now Corunna Mills.

Charles Geletzke Jr. shared

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Steve Lucas: The McKeen railcar on the right is interesting!

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Karl Heckman: There were 5 DEPOTS on the Grand Trunk RR with was called Witches Hat style. CORRUNNA was one.

1944/1944 Corunna Quad @ 62,500

Jul 24, 1953 @ 60,000;  ARA001080161923

Both wood elevators in Alon's photo appear to be extant. The trucks are parked on the former AnnArbor RoW.

Street View, May 2022

Street View, May 2022

Actually, I think there are more than two wood elevators. I see at least three headhouses.

Street View, Aug 2019

They have a lot of grain storage for a feed mill.

Satellite

Chatham, IL: Museum/GM&O Depot

(Satellite)

It is a lot easier to find the location of the depot if it still exists and hasn't been moved.

Street View

Three of the twelve photos along Historic 66 posted by Joseph Tuch Santucci:

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Some of the long retired railroad hardware in the yard at the Chatham depot.

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More retired railroad hardware in the yard at the Chatham depot.

A bay window for the agent's desk is not obvious in the satellite view, but it has one.

Street View

Chatham-IL-Depot & Railroad Museum posted
We will forever be grateful to Steven Sowers and Patrick Pugh at the North Dirksen Sherwin Williams store and the Sherwin-Williams Company for their donation of all of the Emerald. This is going to look amazing on the depot! Who wants to help spray and backbrush this mid to late July? Any painters out there?
Chatham-IL-Depot & Railroad Museum shared

Chatham-IL-Depot & Railroad Museum posted
he freight room became a paint booth today. All the clear Douglas Fir that #carpenterslocal270 will be putting up next weekend is now primed with Sherwin Williams Exterior oil-based wood primer.
Chatham-IL-Depot & Railroad Museum shared

Magnolia, WV: B&O Tower and Depot

(Satellite)

Jack Wolfman Furtney posted
B&O tower, Magnolia WV 1907

Ty High: Is it still standing?

Robert Morris: Ty High that's on the low line it was abandoned in March of 1961 rather station bought the farm in the 1936 flood.

Tim Shanahan shared

Brian R. Wroblewski commented on Jack's post
I don't like sepia tone.

Bob Lemmert commented on Jack's post
Magnolia

Bob Lemmert commented on Jack's post
Magnolia, Construction of the High Line.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Bob's comment
The High Line would be the 1914 cutoff, whereas the Low Line was the original route. I see on Google Maps that the Low Line route is now a road. 1950 Paw Paw Quadrangle @ 24,000

Bob Lemmert: Dennis DeBruler A very overgrown with foliage road along with just dirt, cinders and very little ballast.

Cary, IL: Metra/C&NW Depots

(Satellite)

This is one of those depots where the current one is better than the original one thanks to commuter traffic.

Street View, Sep 2022

I wonder how many depots this town has had.

Andy Zukowski posted

Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Depot in Cary, Illinois. 1914

Photo by C.R. Childs

Richard Fiedler shared

The 1914 depot being in the same location as today's depot makes sense. Back then the Northwest Highway was skinnier so there was room for a house track. The photo is consistent with C&NW left-hand running, the business district building in the left background and this topo map. But the women looking to our left imply that the train was running right-handed that day.

1923/1938 Barrington Quad @ 62,500

But this aerial photo shows a grain elevator on the north side of the tracks and a depot-like building with a house track on the south side of the tracks. So, I'm confused.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Limestone, NY: 1919 Riverside Junction (RJ) Tower

(Satellite)

This B&O route is now owned by the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR).

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company posted
The interlocking tower at Riverside Junction in the early 1950’s. Located on the south side of the Allegheny River between Carrollton and Limestone, the tower protected the crossing of the BR&P mainline and Erie RR Bradford branch over the Pennsylvania Railroad Salamanca Branch. The PRR had a connection with the BR&P here, to access their tracks in Bradford. The PRR provided the tower operators here despite being built by the BR&P. The tower closed in the mid 1960’s when the PRR abandoned the branch. It was razed in the mid 1970’s, the only one of five similar structures to be removed.

Paula Bataitis Kirsch: Looks very similar to the tower that is still at Ashford Junction.

Tim Shanahan shared

Stan Carlson shared

Riverside Junction NY looking south in the mid 1950’s.

John Butts: Any pics of the tower in Heath Ohio? My Father worked there for awhile. They installed a new Hot box detector and he was a car inspector who could stop the train and repair the issue.

Dennis DeBruler: John Butts There are a few photos in these notes: 

https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2024/01/heath-oh-heath-fn-tower-pennsyb-vs.html

Dennis DeBruler commented on Stan's share
Since we can see the tops of the Erie tracks to the right of the tower and since the Erie was west of the B&O, the photo is looking South. What is the timecard direction of the train? B&O was an east/west railroad, but this route was north/south. 1943 Salamanca Quadrangle @ 24,000

RJ Tower (Riverside Jct. north of Limestone NY: built in 1919) - governed the diamond and connecting track with the PRR (running east-west along the south side of the Allegheny River). The tower also governed the Erie (Bradford Division) crossing of the PRR just to the west. The BR&P's double-track line passed along the east side of RJ, with the parallel Erie line on the west side. The PRR line was immediately north of the tower. This was the smallest of the five towers and is the only one which is gone. One of the men who was involved in its demolition in the 1970's recalled that they first tried a wrecking ball, but that the 22" thick (at the base) reinforced walls were too much. They filled the building with flammable material and set fire to it. After softening the reinforcing with the heat, they dynamited it. They had plans to demolish one or more other towers, too, but decided to leave them to the vandals and mother nature. There were, by the way, three diamonds. The BR&P / B&O Buffalo Division double-track and the nearby Erie Bradford Division both crossed the east-west Pennsy branch south of the river.

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Wausaukee, WI: Lost/Milwaukee Depot

Depot: (Satellite, south of Monroe Street and west of the tracks.)

Ice Cream: (Satellite, see photo description below as to why I note this location.)

This railroad route is now owned by the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad (ELS).

Greg Bunce posted
Wausaukee, Wisconsin shot from the rear of an eastbound train by John W. Barriger during an inspection of the Milwaukee for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the 1930's.  The Sinclair station on the right is now an ice cream stand.

The one-story building on the left in the above photo has the concrete platform along the track, so it is the depot. According to the aerail below, the grain elevator is south of the depot, so we are looking north in the photo and the depot is on the west side of the tracks.

1938 Aerial Photo via WIHAP

I could not find any grain elevators in the area, but something is getting served with covered hoper cars by the ELS.

Satellite

Algoma, WI: $15m Repair of South Breakwater and Roen Salvage

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Looking at a satellite image, it appears to be just pleasure boat traffic in this harbor. I didn't spot any source of commercial traffic.

Roen Salvage posted

Roen Salvage Company has arrived in Algoma to begin work on their $15 million contract with the Army Corps of Engineers which involves repairing the entire 1,500-foot-long south breakwater. 

The existing deteriorating structure is over 100 years old. The concrete top is set to be demolished down to near water level. The existing armor stone will be temporarily removed to allow new steel sheet piles to be driven around the entire structure. The structure will then be filled with stone and topped with a reinforced concrete slab. This work will occur incrementally to maintain protection for the harbor through the duration of the project.

The new structure will be about four feet wider than the old breakwater, and be completely flat on top, making it even more walkable than before.

Boaters will still have uninterrupted access to the marina, but they are warned not to throw wakes at the floating equipment. Similar to highway work, speeding through a marine construction zone is deadly and carries severe penalties. Steer clear and slow down.

The project is being led by superintendent Mark Olson and is expected to take over two years to complete, wrapping up in the spring of 2026.

Roen Salvage Company is a heavy civil marine contractor based in Sturgeon Bay celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. The company was established in 1949 and is now entering its fourth generation of family ownership.

Steve Luedke: Is there a plan to get a green navigation light back up on the end of the South pier? This is a safety hazard with the amount of boat traffic going in and out of the marina in complete darkness and fog.

Terry White shared

This was the cover photo on the Roen Salvage Facebook page. Given the name of the photographers and the grain elevators in the background, this work is probably being done in the Two Ports area. In fact, it is the north wall of the Superior Entry.

Roen Salvage posted

Saginaw, MI: Grain Elevators and Second Largest Mural in US

Mural Elevator: (Satellite)

Viterra Elevator: (Satellite)

Gavilon Elevator: (Satellite)

Fertilizer: (Satellite)

13 On Your Side posted four photos with the comment:

It was once a gray eyesore. Now, it's home to the second largest mural in the United States.

Saginaw raised $50,000 to bring in a renowned street artist to their rusty, abandoned silo complex.

Check out the blight turned beauty here: https://www.wzzm13.com/.../69-a416c8c3-0904-4663-9054... 

📸: Michigan Arts and Culture Council

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Shine Bright Saginaw Mural Project posted

A NEW, CLEAR VIEW FROM THE YMCA: What’s the best place to view the Shine Bright towers? Up close, of course! But if you want to see them from a distance, we have good news. 

Today we worked with our friends at the Saginaw YMCA and the great folks at Heinz Tree Service & Landscaping – plus a little volunteer brush-clearing muscle - to create an unobstructed view from the YMCA’s outdoor pavilion to the silos. And when the sun shines in the morning, the reflection from the towers “paints” the Saginaw River to create a truly stunning view of our beautiful city. City of Saginaw Government

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A higher resolution copy of the "signature" photo.

wzzm13, Credit: Michigan Arts and Culture Council
Artist Okuda San Miguel created a mural out of abandoned Saginaw silos.

I wonder what this plant used to make.

A "before" view:

Street View, Oct 2012

The Viterra elevator can do rail to freighter transloading. I wonder if it can handle salties.

Street View, Oct 2012

It is a big elevator.

Street View, May 2023

And across the river is fertilizer supply.

Street View, May 2023

I'm glad to find confirmation that the Gavilon Grain Elevator is rail served. But I don't understand why they would be getting just three hoppers. I went "one click" further to try to verify that the yellow thing on the left was a trackmobile, but the view goes back to Oct 2012. That is, the view below is where the May 2023 driver turned around.

Street View, May 2023

The fresh piles of material at Rock Products indicate that freighters do come upriver past the Viterra Grain Elevator.

Satellite