Freight House: (Satellite)
Old Elevator: (Satellite)
New Elevator: (Satellite)
Old Mill: (Satellite, it still has its smokestack.)
Roundhouse: (Satellite, the slant on the north end of the concrete pad is at the wall of the roundhouse.)
The old elevators on the right and the museum/depot is on the left.
Street View, Jun 2023 |
Probably the former freighthouse on the right and a grain elevator on the left.
Street View |
I got this view after I learned that the museum is about Chief Sleepy Eye and I noticed that I had cropped his grave marker out of my original view.
Street View |
I noticed the Rice Street sign. Did the old mill process rice instead of wheat?
Street View |
Street View |
I noticed in a satellite image that there are two spouts to a building on the south side. Taking a closer look, there are also small silos so that they can quickly load an 18-wheeler.
Street View |
IRM Strahorn Library posted Chicago and North Western Railway Snowplow Operation - Sleepy Eye, Minn. January 31, 1909, F Scobie, photographer. Engine #782 4-6-0 Class S-3 and engine #317 4-6-0 Class R pushing a Roger Ballast Plow. The photograph is labeled "The Snow Plow Getting up Steam." Larson Collection C&NW Volume 7A, Illinois Railway Museum Strahorn Library. Dennis DeBruler shared |
John Hersil posted four photos with the comment:
The Sleep Eye Minnesota former CNW / DM&E , currently CPKC Yard, frieght house, depot, and Land O' Lakes elevator.
Yup that's a Pillsbury hopper with Soo markings.
No runaway caboose ( little house reference )
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2, cropped |
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1964 Sleepy Eye Quad @ 24,000 |
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