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| Greg Smith posted I made a number of air trips over the Twin Cities in the 1970's getting photos of all the railyards. We could rent a plane and pilot for about $25 per hour. This is looking west on Highway 12 (I-394 now) at Penn Av. Tha'ts the CNW/M&StL Cedar Lake shops, and the GN Cedar Lake yard in the middle. Some of the GN guys told me the GN yard was to assist in reefer cars with apples arriving from the west. Tom Domres: We heard that this was a busy spot back in the day. Apparently ice would be harvested from the lakes and stored in ice bunkers. That ice would be added to reefers holding produce from the West. Anthony Wood: Boy I'm so glad this was replaced by bike trails people don't use, single track main, light rail that's running in the wrong spot, and a service road people use as a trail instead. [There are several more comments about the light rail project.] Mike Boudreau shared Started out as a laborer in this shop for six months then I got chance to move to being a fireman. |
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| 1952/54 Minneapolis South Quad @ 24,000 |
The M&StL had another yard to the northwest. I don't know if that was also Cedar Lake or if it had its own name.
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| 1952/54 Minneapolis South Quad @ 24,000 |
I got an old aerial photo of the shops to confirm it had a transfer table.
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| May 8, 1947 @ 17,000; AR1DV0000040047 |
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