Tacoma, WA: BNSF/NP Turntable, Yard & Backshops and Milwaukee Roundhouse and Yard

NP Turntable: (Satellite, the roundhouse was about a  half-circle to the northwest)

NP Railyard: (Satellite, it still has all of its classification tracks)

NP Backshops: (Satellite, replaced by an industrial park.)

Milwaukee: (Satellite?)

Street View, Jul 2021

Christopher Fenn posted five photos with the comment: "This is what is left of  the Nothern Pacific turntable at the BNSF yard in Tacoma, WA."

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1961 Tacoma North and South Quads @ 24,000

Milwaukee

Milwaukee Roundhouse and Yard

James Xiggores posted three photos with the comment: "The Milwaukee Railroad Roundhouse on the Tacoma Tideflats ca.1950s ..this is where I started my first job on Oct 13th 1972 .."

Randall James Marquis: Is that Portland Ave. on the right side of the pictures?

James Xiggores: James Marquis Yes ..across the River on Lincoln Ave and Milwaukee Ave..from the 11th street Bridge To Lincoln Ave..

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Richard Jahn posted
MILW Tacoma, WA 1968.

13 photos of Milwaukee roundhouse and other buildings

Northern Pacific Backshops

Bob Riley posted
1908. Railroad tracks and buildings in South Tacoma including some of the Northern Pacific Shop buildings. The decision of Northern Pacific Railroad to move its car shops to the South Tacoma area (then called Edison) in 1891 resulted in the development and growth of this community, then considered far outside the downtown business district. The shops were located west of Union Ave. (now called South Tacoma Way) between South 46th and South 58th Sts. At first employees would commute to work by streetcar and trains but later houses were built and primarily purchased by railroad workers. The car shops, largest in the West and responsible for the repair and erection of railroad needs west of Montana, provided steady employment and a regular payroll for hundreds. By 1909, boilermakers, now unionized, made 39 cents an hour with helpers earning 24 cents an hour. The Northern Pacific was willing to pay for its skilled labor force. ("Boilermakers Lodge 568, To Live in Dignity;" Bergman: "South Tacoma")

David Conrad: Its cool how that part is still there. I used to work in a bar in there. It was a wild crazy place.

[Which part where? I used street view to look for old buildings west of the Tacoma Cemetery, and I could not find any.]

Bob Riley commented on his post
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1968/70 Tacoma South Quad @ 24,000