Red Wing, MN: ADM Flax & Canola Processing Facility, Amtrak/Milwaukee Depot and CGW Freight House

ADM: (Satellite)

Milwaukee Depot: (Satellite)

CGW Freight: (Satellite?)

This photo caught my eye because it shows the old bridge before the new one obstructed its view. But then I noticed that the grain elevator supported some sort of processing plant.

Tom Brown posted, cropped
A rare visit by American Queen and American Duchess at Red Wing.

I saved this satellite excerpt because it shows that they use barges as well as rail for transport. I think they use the hopper unloader to transload to barges as well as to supply the plant. Note the red industrial locomotive parked southwest of the unloading building. I wonder if it is a Whitcomb locomotive.

Satellite

This grain processing plant looked different than the ones I normally see. So I dug deeper. I determined that this plant processes flax and canola. [ADM (flax is a source of omega-3 fatty acids)] That would explain the small cut of hopper cars. Unlike corn and soybeans, the volume of those crops probably does not justify unit trains.

Street View

Ted Peterson, Jul 2019

Amtrak/Milwaukee Depot

Google Maps did not show this station when I searched for "Amtrak." But the grain elevator in the background made it pretty easy to find. There are several grain elevators in town ,and this one looks like it is abandoned.

Jim Arvites posted

View of the old Milwaukee Road (current Amtrak) passenger depot at Red Wing, Minnesota on July 18, 2025. The depot was built by the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad in 1905.

(Keith Pokorny Photo)

It appears that Amtrak is still using the waiting room for its intended purpose.

amantastic, Jun 2025

Marty Bernard posted
 Chicago Great Western Freight Station at Red Wing, MN, Walt Dunlop collection

The CGW route was the southern one that followed the Cannon River into North Cannon.

1952/54 Red Wing Quad @ 62,500

Fort Wayne, IN: Magnavox Buildings

(Street View, heavily remodeled by Philips Dodge; 3D Satellite)

Donald Brockhaus posted
Donald Brockhaus This was on S. Coliseum Blvd. (a.k.a. Bueter Rd.), just South of New Haven Ave. To the South of this building was Zollners and then IH. And to the East of this building was the IH Scout plant.
Darrell Botts Actually Bob, Magnavox moved out of Plant 1 in the early 80's , not the 90's. I started there in 1979 at plant 1 and was there less than 3 years before we moved out to Industial Park off of Lima Rd (The Tech Center) and the EW1 lab was one of the last to move because a pipe broke at the Tech Center and they had to redo our lab before we could move in :)
Dennis DeBruler Thanks for the location information. I had a summer job there in 1969, but I could not remember where this building was. I did programming for the defense part of the company. One of the first things they explained to me was that there were parts of the building I should never go into. At the end of the summer, they asked me to come back the next summer. But in the Spring of 1970 they informed me that they did not have a summer job for me because of the recession.

Bob Zimmerman Sequence of name changes:
The Magnavox Company (Commercial & Govt)
1974: N.V.Philips buys Magnavox Co.
Magnavox for commercial
Magnavox Government & Industrial Electronics Company (Govt aka MAGIEC)
1994: N.V. Philips sells MAGIEC to Carlyle
Magnavox Systems Company
Magnavox Electronic Systems Company
1996 Carlyle sells to Hughes Company
named Hughes Defense Communications
1998 Hughes merges with Raytheon
Raytheon Electronics Company
current name: Raytheon Co.

Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana also posted this photo

Allen County News shared a post
Greg Starr I worked there until they moved Consumer Products to 14 and 69.

Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted
1960's Magnavox Fort Wayne plant,

Wil Babcock posted

My sister worked for Maganox as a secretary in the R&D department. In the 50’s they made this HiFi radio, record player for her to be given to our father as a gift. Being built to order it was unique. I grew up with it and played my first Beatle album on it. I had it for years and in 2015 I donated to the Magnavox Museum. I tried to donate locally but could not get any movement.

https://magnavoxhistory.com/

Starting at 11:20, this video talks about Magnavox. They had several firsts including the stereophonic record player, the first transistor radio and the first gaming console.

He keeps talking about buildings along Broadway. But I think those were GE, not Magnavox. Magnavox was over by today's Coliseum Blvd.

45:52 video
Inside Magnavox Factory: How Fort Wayne, Indiana Amplified America Then Fell Silent
[I quit watching when the first Japanese TV appeared in America. Too depressing.]

Nashville, TN: 1900 Union Station and Lost/L&N Roundhouse

Depot: (HAER; 3D Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite there used to be just tracks between 11th Ave. and today's Cummins Station.)

This depot served the L&N and Nashville, Chattanooga &St. Louis.

(Update: there are several photos of this station in a Nashville Railroad Album. There is a 1952 topo map that includes the yard for this station in NC&StL Railyards.)

HABS TENN,19-NASH,19--1

1. north side and west front - Union Station, 1001 Broadway, Nashville, Davidson County, TN

Cultural Lens of Time posted this photo without attribution.

[The description sounds like AI platitudes.]

 

Ralph Mitchell added
Johnny Oneal shared

In the lower-right corner is a good view of the train shed.

Linda J. Bordenave posted
Joe 'Sonny' Long shared

From another Facebook group.  Please delete if this is a duplicate.

Ca. January 1961, Looking north.

David Jones: What city is this? What Facebook group did it come from?

Dennis DeBruler: David Jones If you click the photo and then the "View post" link near the upper-right corner, you will see that it came from the Nashville History and Memories group.

 

Bill Primm posted
Nashville, 1955. L&N Employee Magazine

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Take Me To Tennessee posted
The lobby alone is worth the visit, with its towering ceilings and original details intact.
https://takemetotn.com/this-historic-tennessee-train-depot-is-now-a-stunning-restaurant-with-old-school-charm/
Randy Early shared

Doug Roberts posted
January 1, 1977. Amtrak's Floridian stands ready at Nashville's Union Station for a trip south. Yes, it was very cold that morning!

David Kaplan commented on Doug's post
Less bright.

Jim Pearson Photography posted

Southbound Intermodal at Nashville, Tennessee

CSX Q025-20 approaches Kayne Avenue, as it passes the old L&N Depot in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on its way south on the Nashville Terminal Subdivision on January 20th, 2021.

#trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography

Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 24-70 @70mm f/4, 1/1250, ISO 400.

William F Kane

Had a biz trip there once. Sat in my car waiting for some traffic to flow by to take pictures reading a newspaper.

I could see the homeless in the train shed move about.

A CSX employee comes by and tells me to get off the property, I complied.

I returned to NY and read how the train shed was burned down.

Just maybe that employee should have paid more attention to the train shed activity.

Colleen Hayden

The old train station in the background is a boutique hotel now...absolutely gorgeous inside!! 

Eric Hayden

Jim Pearson Photography

Colleen Hayden

 Yep, I've stayed the night there before.

Dennis DeBruler

Jim Pearson Photography

 Thanks for including the former depot in the shot. It is always nice to learn of another depot that has been preserved. Any interior shots from your stay?

He did a good job of avoiding the Interstate highway.

Racer Rail Photos posted
The The Union Station Nashville Yards is a proud display along Broadway of Nashville’s architectural past and compliments the modern city skyline as CSX Train M500 scoots behind it. Copyright ©️Racer Rail Photos
Racer Rail Photos shared
Union Station:

historic-structures

3D Satellite

HABS TENN,19-NASH,19--11

11. Interior, general view - Union Station, 1001 Broadway, Nashville, Davidson County, TN

HABS TENN,19-NASH,19--16

16. Train shed from west

HABS TENN,19-NASH,19--17

17. Train shed interior, looking east

HABS TENN,19-NASH,19--18

18. Train shed, detail of trusses

Ron Flanary posted
From the L&N Railroad Historical Society archives: This is an early '60s image of a southbound solid automobile rack train passing Nashville Union Station. Could you imagine carrying new autos in the open like this today? By the time they reached their destination, nothing would be left but the frames and owner's manuals.
Bob Freitag shared

Was this L&N or NC&StL?

C-DIG-stereo-1s02803

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Ralph Mitchell added

 

1 of 7 contemporary photos of the station posted by Jamie Elliott

Downtown Nashville:

The L&N Union Station built 1900, the area where the train shed use to be, and random passenger cars between the station and post office and along the Cummins station building

Bob Squaredancer posted four photos with the comment: "Here was another stop along my 3 weeks on Amtrak.  A stop at Nashville Union Station on the Floridian Northbound.  This was coming to the end of the 3rd week.  I'm heading to Chicago to catch the San Francisco Zephyr back to California.  photos credit Greg Taggart."

Steve Hanson: Bob, it would have been helpful if you had put what year in the description. We really don't want people to get the impression that Nashville still has Amtrak service...although it should.

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14 photos of the north tower including some interior shots

9 photos of the south tower including some interior shots

7 1990 photos including the train shed

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L&N Roundhouse

Brenton Jones posted two images with the comment:

A glimpse of the Gulch before it became The Gulch.

Long before sleek high-rises and trendy restaurants, this area was a hub of Nashville’s industry and commerce. Before the L&N Railroad moved its shops near 100 Oaks, this stretch pulsed with the energy of a working city.

That white warehouse on the right? That’s Cummins Station—still standing, still part of the city’s story.

Brenton Jones shared

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This map shows that L&N used to share the route by the Union Station with the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis. But it doesn't mark the roundhouse that was at the bend in 11th Avenue.

1952/54 Nashville West Quad @ 24,000

Since the above map doesn't show the roundhouse, I got an older one. It shows a roundhouse.

1932/32 Nashville Quad @ 62,500

Buffalo, NY: Donner-Hanna Coke Corp.

(Satellite)

Donner-Hanna Coke was owned by National Steel and Republic Steel and supplied their Buffalo plants. I could not find a decent photo of the coke ovens.

I got the location of the plant from the comment on this post.

Steel Plant Museum of Western New York posted
Today we are sharing an aerial photo of Republic Steel. Near the bend in the Buffalo River you will notice both the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) shop in operation as well as the new ore bridge, both added in the early 1970's. The Donner-Hanna Coke Plant is at the upper right corner. This site is now home to the Tesla/Solar City complex.

James Cavanaugh Photography posted
From My Archives. A 1983 view of the long gone Republic Steel Plant in Buffalo, NY.
Jim Conlin: And DONNER HANNA COKE. I was the Fire Marshal there in a previous life, so long ago.
Bubba Dubs: This was the coke plant of Donner Steel (Original name of Republic) and Hanna Furnace company, a joint venture. The Union slip was the iron making facility and this was the coke plant. This also supplied Republic once they purchased it.
The Republic facility was originally New York State steel, then became Donner steel, finally Republic.
Jim Conlin: Hanna Furnace was near Bethlehem Steel. They were owned by National Steel. Donner Hanna Coke was a joint venture owned by Republic Steel and National Steel. They were located on Abby and Mystic Streets right near Republic Steel.

Bubba Dubs shared

Another Jim Cavanaugh photograph. 1983 photo of Donner Hanna Coke and Republic Steel Buffalo NY.
Michael Maitland: Wow - thanks for this great photo (more if you have them) The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's passenger main line cuts right through the Republic plant, crosses the black bridge to their downtown station. Route of the crack passenger train the "Phoebe Snow" Buffalo to Hoboken (Ferry to NYC).
James Torgeson: Michael Maitland Right! In this view, Republic has removed the City Branch embankment that once divided the plant. It purchased the ROW from Conrail.

I include Republic Steel in this topo excerpt so that you can see the bends in the river and determine the overall location. Note the circle marked Gas on the east side of the coke plant. That would be the gas holder. When making steel, gas is a byproduct. In other towns, before electricity, they would have a plant to make gas and coke was the byproduct. For example, the gas plant in Fort Wayne, IN, was on the north side of the downtown. I know that at least some steel plants burned the gas to heat the ovens. I wonder if gas plants burned the coke to heat the ovens. I also noticed on the map that there are two roundhouses.

1948 Buffalo SE Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

I learned from studying Chicago steel plants that steel plants pollute the land, but coke plants were much worse. That explains why so much of the results of a Google search concerns law suits and superfunds.

James Torgeson posted four images with the comment: "The Donner-Hanna Coke Corp. Coke Breeze newsletter from November 1938. Donner-Hanna closed in 1982 when the Buffalo plants of its two owners, National Steel and Republic Steel, also closed."

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Will Jamison posted

Since we're on Donner Hannah Coke here's one from Jim Kinkaids collection on Smugmug.

https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-D/