Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Spokane, WA: Lost/GN Hillyard & BNSF Yardley/NP Parkland Railyards & Roundhouses and Purina Feed Mill

GN Hillyard: (Satellite, just east of Market Street between south of Wellesley Ave. and Lincoln Road.)
GN Roundhouse: (Satellite, northeast quadrant of tracks and Wellesley Ave.)
BNSF Yardley/NP Parkland: (Satellite)
NP Roundhouse: (Satellite, part of the foundation is still visible.)
Backshop: (Satellite)
Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Leland Dean Fultz posted
This is an aerial photo taken by the military in 1931 of the Great Northern Railroad Hillyard Yard and Roundhouse. There is absolutely nothing left of the Yard and Roundhouse. Just North of Spokane, Washington

Two images were provided in the comments, but Leland Dean Fultz indicated that these two images are of the Northern Pacific Parkland Yard. Google Maps labels the yard as BNSF Yardley, so evidently the name of this yard was changed.
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Leland's post
The GN yard, 1950/55 Spokane Quad @ 62,500

Dennis DeBruler commented on Leland's post
The NP yard, 1950/55 Spokane Quad @ 62,500

Yardley not only still has its turntable, but it also appears it has some of its old backshop buildings.
Street View, Oct 2024

I normally don't bother with "sheet-metal" photos, but the grain elevator caught my eye.
Arctic Gaming, Mar 2023

While looking for the grain elevator, it is obvious that they also handle intermodal traffic here.
Street View, Oct 2024

Arctic Gaming must have posted his photo to the wrong location because the only silos I could find were the ones in the middle background of the above view. It is obviously a feed mill complete with a Purina feed truck.
Street View, Oct 2024

But it appears that a lot of the feed is packaged for shipment.
Street View, Oct 2024

They do have limited rail service. I presume that is for receiving some of the supplements. They even have their own "critter" to spot the hopper cars.
Satellite

Or is this mill big enough to ship feed by rail? It looks like the left track is for receiving and the right track is for shipping.
Steve Powell, Dec 2016

An older view shows that they can also ship a lot of feed in bulk trucks.
Street View, Oct 2013

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