Rochester, MN: 1899 Restaurant/C&NW/CGW Depot and Engine House

Depot: (Satellite)

Engine House: (Satellite, based on the topo map below. Pawn America has reused the land.)

Marty Bernard posted

Chicago Great Western Depot, Rochester, MN, no information

Collection of Walt Dunlap

Jim Shepard: Train is facing south camera facing north.

Marty Bernard posted
A better photo of the Chicago Great Western Station, Rochester, MN circa 1910, collection of Walt Dunlap

Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western 906 (probably) with the last train south out of Rochester, MN on the C.G.W. March 3, 1949 Olmsted County Historical Society. Walt Dunlap collection

Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western at Rochester, MN, Walt Dunlap Collection

The building is now a restaurant, and the railroad is now owned by CPKC.

Street View, Jul 2023

Si Yao Wang posted
1. Rochester, MN - CGW depot, 8/13/2023 

All R, Jun 2023,cropped

1939 Rochester Quad @ 62,500

Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western Engine House, taken standing on the Turntable, Rochester, MN. Scanned from a photo about the size of a credit card. Walt Dunlap collection

Greg Melby: Pre-1948, the left 2 stalls were damaged and removed following a windstorm or tornado (accounts vary as to which it was).

Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western at Rochester, MN 1962. Walt Dunlap collection

 

Marty Bernard posted

Soldier's Field makes it easy to correlated this aerial with today's satellite image.

Apr 24, 1964 @ 24,200; AR1SWAF00010017

The smokestack in the left background of Si's photo is for a bg plant. But I could not find a label or a sign. Is (was?) it a paper plant?

3D Satellite

I was looking for grain elevators and found that this CPKC route ends south of 20th Street at Seneca Foods. So this CGW remnant is now an industrial spur.

Satellite

Marty Bernard posted nine photos with the comment:

9 of Chicago Great Western Rochester, MN Yard circa 1963

Walt Dunlap Collection

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