Depot: (
Satellite)
Roundhouse: (
Satellite, the land has been reused.)
They also have an outside-braced wood boxcar on display.
Martha Decker
posted two photos with the comment:
Onamia, Minnesota Soo Line (Mpls, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie) Depot, built in 1908 at the southwest end of Lake Mille Lacs. It was on the Soo Brooten Line, which was a major freight route from west central Minnesota to the harbor at Duluth.
According to Steve Glischinski in his book,"Minnesota Railroads", all Soo Line passenger service ended in 1967. The last freight train passed through Onamia in 1990. The depot was in a sad state of disrepair by that time. The tracks here are long gone, having been removed in the mid-1990s.
Groups of locals eventually had the depot restored, and in 2009 it was opened as the Onamia Depot Library.
Image sources:
1. Onamia Depot, May 30, 2009
© Copyright 2009, Martha Decker
2. Railroad Roundhouse at Onamia ca 1910
MN Historical Society, Gale Family Library
Locator Number: MM6.9 ON r24
There is a little more info on my web page at:
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The oldest topo map I could find was 1968, and it doesn't show the roundhouse.
We can see the depot in the right background of the above roundhouse photo, so we know it was southeast of the depot on the south side of the tracks. I also noticed that the roundhouse is evidently not round! The distance between the turntable and the stalls is variable. It looks like the turntable was removed by 1966, but the building was still standing.
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