St. Louis Park, MN: 1887 Moved/Milwaukee Depot and Pavek & Bakken Museums

Original: (Satellite, according to the topo map and aerial photo below, the Wooddale Ave. Station reuses the depot's land.)

Current: (Satellite)

Pavek Museum of Electronic Communication: (Satellite)

The Bakken Museum: (Satellite)

I guess the station is now a park pavilion.

Street View, Apr 2025

Al Hennen posted four photos with the comment: "found this on my bike ride in St.Louis Park Minn."

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Since the Milwaukee tracks were south of the Minneapolis & St. Louis tracks, the station would be south of the tracks. So it looks like it would be the rectangle just east of Wooddale Avenue.

1952/54 Minneapolis South Quad @ 24,000

I couldn't resist including the grain elevator near the upper-right corner. That was torn down for Cityscape.

May 8, 1947 @ 17,000; AR1DV0000040135

Pavek Museum of Electronic Communication

Photo, May 2024

Andrea, Jul 2026

A vacuum tube tester:

Mike Larson, Dec 2023

The Bakken Museum

"Museum & education center for all ages offering exhibits on electricity, Ben Franklin & magnets." [Google Maps description]

E B-Zg, Feb 2025

Orleans, NE: CB&Q Depot, Wood Grain Elevators and NK&C Railroad

(Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2025

Michael Behm posted
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy depot from Orleans, Nebraska. My picture from 9-12-26

Comments on Michael's post

The town has a big new elevator and a couple of old elevators.

Street View, Sep 2025

None of the big bins existed in 2012 and the older elevator was bigger.

Street View, Jun 2012

The new elevator sometimes has a big ground pile.

Satellite

The town still has a couple of wood grain elevators.

Street View, Sep 2025

rail.guide

Orleans is where the branch to St. Francis left the route across the southern part of Nebraska.

1902

NK&C = Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado (NKCR)

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Omnitrax
"Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railway (NKCR) owns and operates approximately 509 miles of track in three states and carries a diverse mix of traffic including wheat, corn, coal and fertilizer. NKCR, one of several railroads in Nebraska, has benefited from its ability to attract high throughput grain elevators to its lines due to its superior service record and excellent relationship with BNSF. More specifically, NKCR recently made considerable track improvements in conjunction with upgrade investments by the owners of grain elevators at Venango, Nebraska, Loomis, Nebraska and Holyoke, Colorado, each of which now loads 110-car shuttle trains. In addition to grain, NKCR ships liquid fertilizer shuttle unloaders at Maywood, Nebraska, Imperial, Nebraska and Holyoke, Colorado in addition to the dry fertilizer shuttle unloader at Loomis, Nebraska."

Klamath Fall, OR: BNSF/GN Yard Tower, Amtrak/SP Depot and UP/SP Yard Tower & Roundhouse

BNSF/GN Yard Tower: (Satellite)

Amtrak/SP Depot: (Satelite)

UP/SP Yard Office: (Satellite)

UP/SP Roundhouse: (Satellite)

BNSF/GN Yard Tower

Street View, May 2012

RRAdventure posted
BNSF— in Klamath Falls, OR.

Amtrak/SP Depot

Street View, May 2019

RRAdventure posted
Southern Pacific Depot— at Klamath Falls station.

UP/SP Yard Office

Street View, May 2019

RRAdventure posted
Union Pacific— in Klamath Falls, OR.

UP/SP Roundhouse

They filled in the pits but left the foundation. We can easily tell that two of the stalls were longer than the other stalls.

Satellite

Overview

The bridge that crosses Lake Ewauna (Klamath River) to serve the industries on the west side of the river still exists. Both the UP and BNSF railyards are as big today, if not bigger, than they were in the 1950s.

1957/65 Klamath Falls Quad @ 62,500

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Hector, MN: Wood Grain Elavator

West: (Satellite)

East: (Satellite)

South side:

Street View, Jun 2026

North side:

Street View, Jun 2026

Wesley Peters posted two photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota.

Hector, Renville County, MN.

Farmers Elevator Co. Built in 1938, T. E. Ibberson Co. 40,000-bushel capacity.

Still standing of June 2026.

Photographed on 7/20/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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The above elevator is west of Main Street. This elevator is on the east side.

Street View, Jun 2026

The elevators get rail service because this Milwaukee route is now owned by the Twin Cities & Western Railroad (TC&W) .

tcwr via Dennis DeBruler

I looked at other views of the north side of the west elevator to see how many of them had tank cars. Every view since 2014 had tank cars. And they are delivering them to Agri Trading Fats and Oils. I also discovered that they recently rebuilt the receiving facility so that they could unload tank cars indoors.

Street View, Apr 2023

Lafayette, IN: Red Crown Mini-Museum (Standard Oil)

(Satellite)

Street View, Mar 2026

Paul Robinson commented on a post:

In the late 1980s, my boss renovated a similar STANDARD station in Lafayette, Indiana. [Similar to the Standard Station in Vienna, IL.] It has been featured here before, I think. The station became THE RED CROWN MINI MUSEUM. It featured my boss's collection of STANDARD OIL memorabilia and antique automobiles. The museum closed after his death, but the building still stands and is used by the local public library that owns the property today.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6287

 

RoadsideAmerica
"The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a 1930s-era Standard Oil filling station that was restored in 1991 and turned into a "walk-by" museum by local businessman Don Stein. It features a couple of restored antique cars in the auto bays, a 1931 Ford Model B wrecker in the parking lot, and miscellaneous gas-station memorabilia inside."
"The original building was constructed in 1927-28 by Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The Red Crown was threatened with destruction in the 1980s. In 1991, Stein restored the building at no cost to the public. A chronological history of the Red Crown Mini-Museum notes that over 1,000 man hours were spent hand-removing 41 layers of paint from the inside glazed brick walls. The 'fallen roof was removed and replaced with red tile imported from Chillicothe, Ohio, where it had been in storage by Standard Oil for over 50 years.'"

Sangyeon Woo, Jul 2016

Southampton, PA: Bad Restoration Leadership/Reading Depot

(Satellite)

R Johnson, Oct 2018

Street View, Oct 2023

Steve Kurth, Jan 2023

Craig Richardson posted four photos with the comment: "Southampton Pa. the line is now a trail. This last saw passengers in the early 80’s. Would love to see this restored."

[Some of the comments explain that the restoration has failed so far because of bad leadership.]

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1952/53 Hatboro Quad @ 24,000

Olivia, MN: Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

This ADM facility processes seeds for edible beans. [ADM]

Dennis DeBruler commented on Cliff's comment below
https://maps.app.goo.gl/trfzWKg2utXG6Ywb8

Wesley Peters posted two photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota.

Olivia, Renville County, MN.

Lakeland Bean Co. False-front combination headhouse/annex built in 1972. Bushel capacity unknown. False-front annex built in unknown year. Bushel capacity unknown. Both by Hogenson Construction Co.

Features Hogenson's signature mint green office and driveway.

Photographed on 7/20/2025.

Photo courtesy of Wesley Peters.

Cliff Smith: Did you take a photo of the railcar side? Awesome shots

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Street View, Jun 2026

To the west of the ADM plant is a Remington corn seed plant. Note the ADM plant in the right background.

Street View, Jun 2026

At first, I could not find the wood elevator because it is west of town. In the town is a big storage grain elevator.

Street View, Jun 2026

The elevators get rail service because this Milwaukee route is now owned by the Twin Cities & Western Railroad (TC&W) .

tcwr via Dennis DeBruler