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| Street View, Nov 2021 |
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| Jim Arvites posted View of the old Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad passenger depot at Yankton, South Dakota. The station, built in 1905, is still standing today. (Wikimedia) Nicholas Roche: In Chicagoland, the right of ways for defunct railroads were turned into bicycle paths to give the right of ways purpose - and to prevent other things from being built along them. This is in case of a national emergency, economic or technological shift that will require the RoW to be used again in the future - without tearing down houses. Is this the case for the MILW? Or does this only happen in urban areas? [See my answer below with the SD railroad map.] |
It looks like GN and C&NW had branches to this town while the Milwaukee went through the town. (This is the first big town that I remember that does not have any hi-res topo maps.)
This town existed before the railroads did because it had steamboat service. [yankton]
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| 1955/67 Sioux City Quad @ 250,000 |
BN bought the Milwaukee route and abandoned its GN route. BNSF still owns the route.
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| sdgoed Dennis DeBruler commented on Nicholas' comment In this case, BN bought this part of the Milwaukee route, and BNSF still owns it. https://sdgoed.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rail-map.pdf |
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| sdgoed |
While trying to figure out what route Dakota Southern operates, I discovered that Milwaukee went in two directions west of Yankton.
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| 1955/67 Sioux City Quad @ 250,000 |
I didn't think the storage elevator had rail service until I saw that yellow conveyor on the left. This is another indication that a fall protector is not required.
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| Street View, Nov 2021 |
The town not only has seed sales, a feed mill and fertilizer sales,....
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| Street View, Nov 2021 |
...it has livestock processing.
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| Satellite |
It looks like on sales day, they have a bigger truck traffic jam than a grain elevator has during harvest season.
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| L&J fun, Nov 2017 |
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