Nampa, ID: 1903,1976 Museum/UP Depot, Railyards, Yard Tower & Office and Roundhouse

Depot: (Satellite)

Yard Tower & Office: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2015

Street View, Oct 2012

As expected, the roundhouse has been replaced by a building designed to service diesel locomotives, but the turntable has survived along with some remnants of the roundhouse foundation.

Satellite

Both railyards have retained most of their tracks. This map also made it easy to find the depot.

1958/60 Nampa Quad @ 24,000

James Cook, Feb 2024

The museum includes a static display of a caboose, steam crane and semaphore signal.

Street View, Aug 2015

Joe, Aug 2024

Timothy Bird, Jul 2025

Timothy Bird, Jul 2025

The museum contains a lot of railroad stuff, but it also has other stuff.

Tammy Espino, Feb 2018

Janice Tsai, Jul 2019

Montpelier, ID: UP Office/Depot, Railyard & Roundhouse and Lincoln (US-30) Highway

Depot: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Lincoln (US-30) Highway Overview

UP still uses this depot. I'm surprised their microwave tower is still standing. Fiber optic cables made them obsolete in most places.

Street View, Aug 2025

RRadventures posted two photos with the comment: "Union Pacific Railroad— in Montpelier, ID."

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Note the remnants of a roundhouse foundation in the lower-left corner. 

Satellite

Most of the tracks in the railyard still exist. But they are very full. Are they being used for storage? 

1967/68 Montpelier Quad @ 24,000

Big Boy 2024

Jonathan Fischer, Aug 2024

Jonathan Fischer, Aug 2024

Klamath Fall, OR: BNSF/GN Yard Tower, Amtrak/SP Depot and UP/SP Yard Tower & Roundhouse

BNSF/GN Yard Tower: (Satellite)

Amtrak/SP Depot: (Satelite)

UP/SP Yard Office: (Satellite)

UP/SP Roundhouse: (Satellite)

BNSF/GN Yard Tower

Street View, May 2012

RRAdventure posted
BNSF— in Klamath Falls, OR.

Amtrak/SP Depot

Street View, May 2019

RRAdventure posted
Southern Pacific Depot— at Klamath Falls station.

UP/SP Yard Office

Street View, May 2019

RRAdventure posted
Union Pacific— in Klamath Falls, OR.

UP/SP Roundhouse

They filled in the pits but left the foundation. We can easily tell that two of the stalls were longer than the other stalls.

Satellite

Overview

The bridge that crosses Lake Ewauna (Klamath River) to serve the industries on the west side of the river still exists. Both the UP and BNSF railyards are as big today, if not bigger, than they were in the 1950s.

1957/65 Klamath Falls Quad @ 62,500

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Monroe, LA: CPKC/IC Railyard and Backshops

(Satellite, the railyard is now used for some storage.)

Illinois Central Railroad Scrapbook And Occasionally Other Railroads posted

An unknown photographer snapped this aerial view of the Vicksburg Shreveport & Pacific shops at Monroe, Louisiana.  The exact date is unknown, but is believed to be from the late 1920's.

As its name indicates, the VS&P ran between Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Shreveport, Louisiana, and had ambitions of reaching even further west.  The VS&P was chartered in 1879 to take over the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad.

The VS&P and the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway were under common ownership, and it wasn't uncommon for locomotives and rolling stock to be swapped between the two roads.  In 1926 both the roads were leased to the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley (an IC subsidiary).  In 1959 both the VS&P and A&V were formally merged into the Illinois Central Railroad.

All of the shop buildings seen here have been razed, but many of the concrete foundations can easily be seen on satellite photos.  The old VS&P mainline was spun off to Mid-South Rail in 1986, and then in 1994 was taken over by the Kansas City Southern and became part of the "Meridian Speedway" linking KCS and Norfolk Southern.

Photographer unknown, Cliff Downey coll.

Keith Peeples: Looks like you can see the Missouri Pacific crossing in the top right hand corner.

1957/58 Monroe North Quad @ 24,000

It looks like at least one of the roundhouse pits has not been filled in.

Satellite

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Breckenridge, MN: Wood, 3 Rail Served Grain Elevators and GN Roundhouse

Wood: (Satellite)

Minn-Kota: (Satellite)

Red River Grain: (Satellite)

Sunrich Products: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

The wood elevator is one of the three rail-served elevators.

Street View, Jul 2024

The first three photos below are of the above elevator. I could not find the elevator for the fourth photo.

Wesley Peters posted four photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota.

Breckenridge, Wilkin County, MN.

North Complex- Early history unknown.

South Complex- Early history unknown.

Photographed on 7/20/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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This is the next elevator to the east, Minn-Kota. 

Street View, Jul 2024

It also has a fall protector. The in the right background is the Red River Grain Elevator.

Street View, Jul 2024

I'm using a satellite image instead of a street view for Red River Grain because it is so big and because I want to show the loop of track that can efficiently load unit trains. Sunrich Products in the upper-left corner producest sunflower products.

Satellite

Photo, Mar 2026

Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Milwaukee used to serve this town. 

1953/65 Fargo Quad @ 250,000

BNSF kept the GN spokes going North and Southeast. Red River Valley & Western (RRVW) took the GN spoke going Northwest and connected the western spoke of Northern Pacific to its track. Popups on the map shows that BNSF owns the industrial tracks on the right side. NP to the East and Milwaukee have been abandoned.

National Rail Network Map

I think RRVW now uses the former GN railyard. The street view at the top of these notes shows four of their locomotives.

Satellite

The GN roundhouse is extant.

Satellite

Street View, Jul 2024

I wonder what they used to process here.

Street View, Oct 2012

South Bend, IN: NS/NYC Oliver's Yard & Roundhouse and CN/GTW Olivers (Ford Street) Yard

NS Yard Office: (Satellite, extant)

NYC Roundhouse: (Satellite, land has been reused)

GTW Yard Office: (Satellite, lost)

NS/NYC Railyard

The NYC Kankakee Belt Railroad (KBR)  joined the NYC LS&MS a mile east of here at the CP487/Bend/HF Junction Tower. Also, a branch of the NYC Michigan Central came south from Niles, MI, and joined this yard at the east end. So this yard terminated traffic for the KBR and MC. The yard and surviving industrial tracks are now owned by NS.

I wonder if the current yard office used to be a depot for commuters to the Oliver Chilled Plow Co.

Street View, Jun 2025

The yard still exists between Oliver and Ford Streets. It used to extend west of Oliver, but that is mostly trees now.

1958/59 South Bend West Quad @ 24,000 via Dennis DeBruler

CN/GTW Railyard

The GTW tracks ran through this corridor just north of the NYC tracks.

monon
"Grand Trunk's Olivers Yard Office, August 19, 1981. This building was at the Olivers Yard. It was more commonly referred to as the Ford Street Yard Office."

Both

The topo map above does not show a yard for GTW, so I got an aerial photo. Ford Street is in the upper-right corner. (The NJI&I roundhouse is at the bottom of this photo just west of Olive Street.)

Dec 1, 1951 @ 28,400; AR1PK0000040037

Because the lighting was dark in the upper-right corner of the above photo, I got a closeup from another photo. Given the building in the left background of Jeff's photo above, I think the GTW yard office was the rectangle adjacent to Ford Street. It also appears that NYC had at least one roundhouse for this yard. And GTW may have one between Kosciuszko Street and Harris Street.

Dec 1, 1951 @ 28,400; AR1PK0000040039

Looking at the aerial photo, it appears that today's railyard is connected to CN instead of NS. It appears that NS has just one track left by its yard office. I caught a tamper on that track.

Street View, Jun 2025

I hate it when the more you learn, the more you get confused. This shows that NS has just one track, but CN still has some sidings. I did read that NS serves what was originally the New Energy Ethanol Plant and other industries from this yard office. It looks like MoW crews also use it given the tamper and all of the ties piled beside the track in this view.

Street View, Jun 2025

I found a little NS yard down among the industries.

Satellite

National Rail Network Map