Union Depot: (Satellite, it was east of Hennepin Ave.)
1913 GN Depot: (Satellite, the station was between Azine Alley and the river)This depot served GN, NP, CB&Q, C&NW, CGW and Minneapolis & St. Louis. In 1916, 174 trains were scheduled to use the depot. "The station could accommodate twenty thousand passengers each day. The waiting area was 11,540 square feet and could handle 240 passengers." [en-academic, minnpost]
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| Various web pages, Minnesota Historical Society The front of the Great Northern Railway Depot, Minneapolis, 1914. |
Actually, the Union Depot proceeded this GN depot, and it was on the east side of Hennepin Avenue. It served for 30 years. [RouteYou]
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The GN depot’s construction formed a part of the early-twentieth-century City Beautiful movement, which sought to establish social harmony through the beautification of architecture and civic space. The construction of the new station helped beautify its location in Minneapolis—an otherwise derelict area known as the Bridge Square.The Great Northern Railway built the depot according to the designs of architect Charles Frost. Frost had already designed the Milwaukee Road Depot in Minneapolis and would go on to design the St. Paul Union Depot. He also oversaw construction of Navy Pier in Chicago and a project at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.[mnopedia]
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| Steve Gyurci posted Minneapolis (1905) Industrial Exposition Building in the background Photo from the Minnesota Historical Society Ryan Coleman: This photo is much older than that the Hennepin Avenue bridge depicted was replaced in 1889? The previous steel deck bridge that predated the 1990 built bridge that is there now obviously was much older than 1905. Bruce Barsness: Ryan Coleman The bridge in the picture was constructed in 1876 and torn down in 1891, so the correct date of the picture would be somewhere between those two. https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../18551876189119... The Minneapolis Union Depot in the picture was constructed in 1885 and was demolished soon after the Great Northern depot across the street was opened in 1914. https://www.nokohaha.com/.../20/the-minneapolis-union-depot/ That means the picture was probably taken between 1885 and 1891. Tom Lyman shared To the right is the Mpls. Union Depot, and train shed. It was the predecessor to the Great Northern Depot. Which was built across Hennepin Ave. from this one. |
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| Steve Gyurci posted Minneapolis (1960) Photo from the Star Tribune Tom Lyman shared GN Stone Arch Bridge, before the steel span was inserted into it. GN Depot, above the river and to the right. |
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| Marty Bernard posted 1. Great Northern Depot and Chicago Great Western Freight Station, Minneapolis, MN, circa 1918. Photographs and captions from the Minnesota Historical Society. Mark Malaby: Torn down to build the Federal Reserve Bank |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's comment hanks. This allowed me to locate the station. 1952 Minneapolis South Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| Marty Bernard posted 6. Hennepin Avenue bridge and new Great Northern Station [white building to the right], Minneapolis, MN, circa 1915. Photographs and captions from the Minnesota Historical Society |
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This view is looking Southeast.
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| William Brown posted From the Minnesota Historical Society, an Arial Photo of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upper left the Stone Arch Bridge. The Great Northern/Northern Pacific Union Station on the River. The Lower left is the Minnesota Eastern or the M&STL's Yard that serve the Grain Mills using a trestle jointly owned by the Milwaukee Road and and Chicago Northwest's CM&O. There are three Freight Houses are in the lower right corner of the photo. I don't pretend to be an expert, any help would be appreciated. William Brown: The Depot was The Great Northern Depot. The bottom of the photo the street on the left is 1st. St. N. The Northern Pacific Freight house is along the right side of this street. The street on the right is 2nd St. N. The Northern Pacific Lower Yard is between these two streets. The Soo Line Freight house is on the right side of 2nd St. The street and bridge in the middle between 1st. St. & 2nd ST. is 4th Ave. N. It was called the Hole in The Wall where the NP Rwy. & Soo Line Rwy. went under 4th Ave. N. to enter the GN Rwy. tracks to continue on. William Brown posted [The same comments as the above post.] Jahan Thompson: Lefthand yard is the OMAHA's West Mpls Freight Office next to it. The building is still there with the the NorthWestern Line logo paint on the top. I believe it is loft apartments now. |
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| John J Kulidas posted Great Northern Empire builder pulling out of Minneapolis. The engine in the 1962 simplified livery scheme. The rest of the train is in the short lived big sky blue. Warren Plaisance: This must be after the BN merger in 1970. No goat logo on the nose. Ellis Simon: Given the grime on the train it must have just come in from Seattle. Couldn’t imagine GN, BN or Amtrak sending the Empire Builder out in such filthy condition. Norm Anderson: Yes, the train is definitely eastbound, heading toward Chicago. The Mississippi River is just out of frame to the right, and the brush along the riverbank is all bare branches, meaning this is winter, and working wash racks may be few and far between. The engines look like they've been dealing with snow, sleet, and slush. Steve Collins: The Blue scheme didn’t appear until after 1966. In 1966 the entire train was still in the orange and green color scheme and there was still an observation car on the back when my family took pullman accommodations on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland and back in July 1966. When we repeated the trip in 1968, some of the cars were still orange and green, but some, including the full length dome car were painted blue and white. The observation car on the back had been discontinued sometime between our trip in July 1966 and our subsequent trip in July 1968. |
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| Lake States Railway Historical Association posted Great Northern 502 on eastbound passenger train Empire Builder at passenger station in Minneapolis, MN in July of 1950. Bob Milner photo. If you enjoy the photos and what Lake States is accomplishing, consider joining Lake States or making a donation, or both: https://www.lsrha.org/?page_id=135 Follow us on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/199136368@N06 Follow us Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lakestates/?hl=en |
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| mnopedia-aerial via mnopedia, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) Marty Bernard posted 1. Aerial view of the Great Northern Depot and the surrounding area, looking north, Minneapolis circa 1978. [Actually looking northwest] Photographs and captions from the Minnesota Historical Society Dan Qualy: That red building with the billboards between GN Station and Berman Buckskin Co...wasn't that the Chicago Great Western freight house? Marty Bernard: Yes. Marty Bernard shared |
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| wikiwand Marty Bernard posted Great Northern Station, Minneapolis, in April 1971 with a picture of who else but the Empire Builder James J. Hill. Roger Puta photo. |
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| mnopedia-waiting, 1950 via mnopedia, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) Marty Bernard posted 4 and 5. Interior view of the Great Northern depot waiting room. Minneapolis July 7, 1950. Photographs and captions from the Minnesota Historical Society |
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| Marty Bernard posted 4 and 5. Interior view of the Great Northern depot waiting room. Minneapolis July 7, 1950. Photographs and captions from the Minnesota Historical Society |
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