Elevators: (Satellite, there are three wood elevators stills standing and a lot of white bins on the west side.)
Depot: (Satellite, the land has been reused. The water tower was just east of the depot.)
Looking Northwest
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| Street View, Dec 2021 |
In the left background of the above view, I noticed a pipe slanting down across the road. So I "drove" to the other end of town to check that out.
Looking Southwest
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| Street View |
And I happened to catch a BNSF train working the town. That saves me from researching who now owns the tracks.
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| Street View |
BNSF is still [2021] using old locomotives on its local trains. I'm not a railfan, but I know that a narrow cab and old liveries mean that they are old. In fact, I think the one on the left is the original Heritage 1 livery, and the one on the right is the "Swish H1" livery.
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| Street View |
I don't think any of these elevators are extant. They have either been remodelled or replaced.
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| Mark Taylor posted Hettinger, ND 1909 Paul Hurst: Now that is a very rural photo. Five grain elevators and not much else. |
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| Ken Draper commented on Mark's post Hettinger ND, Sept. 2020. |
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| Ken Draper commented on his comment Same trip, a little further up the line in Hettinger ND. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Paul's comment As with most railroad towns, where there are grain elevators, there is a depot and water tower. But it strange that we don't see any buildings along today's Railroad Ave by 1909. |
Not only are there two trains in town, the second unit on the left train has the Executive livery. I don't see that paint scheme out here in Chicagoland.
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| Digitally Zoomed |
A view from the town side of the tracks. I think the depot would have been in the left foreground.
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| Street View |
This implies that the depot was between Railroad Ave. and the tracks and between 5th and 6th Streets.
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| 1974/79 Hettinger South Quad @ 24,000 |
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