Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Hayfield, MN: Lost/CGW Depot, Turntable and Railyard

Depot: (Satellite, the feedmill reuses the depot's land.)
Turntable: (Satellite)

Marty Bernard posted four images with the comment: "Post Cards of the Chicago Great Western Hayfield, MN Station."
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Marty Bernard posted four photos with the comment: "Chicago Great Western Depot, Hayfield, MN, no captions.  Scanned from small B&W prints.  Walt Dunlap collection."
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Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western Roundhouse, Hayfield, MN, Walt Dunlap collection, copied from an old postcard dated Jan. 27, 1910.

Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western Roundhouse, Hayfield, MN, Walt Dunlap collection, copied from an old postcard dated July 14, 1914
[The trestle is probably their coal loading dock.]

Marty Bernard posted
Chicago Great Western Roundhouse, Hayfield, MN, Walt Dunlap collection

This topo map marks the location of the depot, turntable and railyard.
1966/67 Hayfield Quad @ 24,000

This aerial photo faintly shows the house track that we see behind the depot in the postcards.
May 13, 1965 @ 20,000; AR1VAZQ00010177

The more I looked, the more grain storage I found in this town.
Satellite

And this is the feedmill that has reused the depot's land.
Satellite

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