Enderlin, ND: Wood Feed Mill, ADM Edible Beans and Lost/SOO Roundhouse

Wood Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Large Storage Elevator: (Satellite)

ADM Edible Beans: (Satellite)

SOO Roundhouse: (Satellite, based on the topo map below.)

The truck with an augur is a feed truck, which implies that the elevator is a feed mill. Or at least it was back in 2008.

Street View, Aug 2008

The building on the left is the CPKC yard office. There is enough rail service in this town to justify at least one local locomotive.

Street View, Aug 2021

Wesley Peters posted

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota.

Enderlin, Ransom County, ND.

Farmers Co-op Elevator Co. False-front combination headhouse/annex built in unknown year, Hogenson Construction Co. Bushel capacity unknown.

Photographed on 7/19/2025.

Photo courtesy of Wesley Peters.

The storage elevator has a long fall protector.

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ADM also handles canola. [ADMadvantage]

1960 Enderlin South and 1961 Enderlin North Quads @ 24,000

Lidgerwood, ND: Wood Grain Elevators

North: (Satellite)

South: (Satellite)

North Elevator

Street View, Oct 2021

The small bins and leg have been removed.

Street View, Aug 2025

South Elevator

Street View, Aug 2025

The big dryer is hidden by the tree in the above view.

Street View, Aug 2025

Street View, Aug 2025

The big dryer was built in Aug 2021. Note the blue jacks at the base of the dryer. They build a new ring at the bottom and then jack the whole thing up to make room for another ring.

Marvin Olivares, Aug 2021

Both Elevators

Wesley Peters posted five photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota.

Lidgerwood, Richland County, ND.

North Complex- Farmers Co-op Elevator Co. False-front headhouse built in 1963, Slettebo Construction Co. 50,000-bushel capacity. Annex built in 1964, T. E. Ibberson Co. 63,000-bushel capacity.

South Complex- GTA Farmers Elevator Co-op. False-front headhouse built in 1975, Jacobson Construction Co. 110,000-bushel capacity.

Photographed on 7/19/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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The northern elevator used to be next to the SOO railroad, and the southern one was next to Great Northern.

1907/07 Wyndmere Quad @ 125,000

Today, the southern (GN) tracks are connected to the northern (SOO) tracks east of town, and the SOO route is now owned by Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad.

National Rail Network Map

Claire City, SD: Wood Grain Evevator

(Satellite)

Street View, Mar 2025

Wesley Peters posted four photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, South Dakota.

Claire City, Roberts County, SD.

Farmers Grain & Fuel Co./Farmers Co-op Elevator GTA. False-front headhouse built in 1974-1975, Hogenson Construction Co. Bushel capacity unknown. Middle headhouse built in 1913. 25,000-bushel capacity. Annex built in 1967, Hogenson Construction Co. 60,000-bushel capacity.

Features Hogenson's signature mint green office and driveway.

Photographed on 7/19/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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See New Effington for information about the railroad.

Rosholt, SD: Wood Grain Elevator, Feed Mill and Ethanol Plant

Elevator: (Satellite)

Ethanol: (Satellite)

Obviously, the elevator is rail served. The long, low building is probably fertilizer storage.

Street View, Jul 2024

I think this is a feed mill.

Street View, Jul 2024

Wesley Peters posted two photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, South Dakota.

Rosholt, Roberts County, SD.

Early history unknown.

Photographed on 7/19/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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Most of the storage capacity for the elevator is behind what I can see from the street.

Satellite

Photo, Oct 2020

This is just a fraction of the tank cars that are at the ethanol plant.

Street View, Jul 2024

The railroad was the SOO Line.

1958/58 Milbank Quad @ 250,000

CPKC has retained access to Rosholt because of the grain elevator and ethanol plant.

National Rail Network Map

New Effington, SD: Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2025

Street View, Sep 2025

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Street View, Sep 2025

The railroad was the SOO Line.

1953/58 Milbank Quad @ 250,000

CPKC retains ownership down to Rosholt because that town has a big grain elevator and an ethanol plant. This map has some mistakes. First of all, the shortline should not be isolated. When I studied Rosholt, I noticed that the track did not stop west of the town as implied by this map. So now I followed the track west of Rosholt, and it goes to here, which is a little west of Claire City. So a second mistake is that the railroad does not go to Dahlberg and Veblen.

National Rail Network Map

The map identifies the owner of the shortline as SNR. But when I Googled "SNR railroad", the results for that reporting mark was Sierra Northern Railway, which is in California. So I'm calling SNR a third mistake.

National Rail Network Map

I noticed a crane parked west of town.

Satellite

When I checked it out with a street view, I found some more MoW equipment. So they must be providing rail service to the towns along the route or they would not be maintaining the tracks.

Street View, Sep 2025

Orchard Place, IL: Lost/Wisconsin Central Depot

(Satellite)

Not only is the depot lost, the whole town is lost. It was swallowed by O'Hare Airport.

George Almaraz posted two photos with the comment: "In light of recent discoveries (thank you Tom Dueringer for your post on the Guthrie, Illinois train depot,) I wanted to share my own that I’ve made as of a month ago. —I’ve been researching about the lost town of Orchard Place, Illinois (what eventually became O’Hare Int’l Airport, hence, “ORD”) and trying to find as many photographs of the town and/or depot that was located on the Wisconsin Central railroad. There are a couple well known and published photos/info of the depot, but I’m hungry for more. In the midst of my research, I found two photos that were not known of before on an antique auctioning website (WorthPoint.) These photo postcard scans were listed on their sales archive and I was able to download the images. They’re from circa 1910!"

Paul Hurst: I would like to see a map of Orchard Park too. Just to see what it looked like.

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George Almaraz commented on Paul's comment
Ah, you mean Orchard Place, Illinois. Where this depot was located. Orchard Place itself fell into the hands of progress, and pretty much got flattened down with the expansion of the airport and highways in the late 1950s. —Here’s a circa 1930s low aerial photo of the “main square” of Orchard Place. The train tracks are the Wisc. Central (Soo-Line), street going across is Higgins Rd., and the diagonal street on the right is Mannheim Rd. If you zoom in, you can see the depot on the right side of the tracks

Dennis DeBruler commented on Paul's comment
1900 Riverside and Highwood Quads @ 62,500

Dennis DeBruler commented on George's post
This image uses a transparency feature that shows the 1900 topo map overlaid on a base map that has the airport. Orchard Place is at the top to the left of Rosemont. https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/topomapexplorer/index.html...

Dennis DeBruler commented on George's comment
I was confused until I realized this photo is looking South. It appears that the depot was under today's I-90, https://maps.app.goo.gl/9NiHjp2x3y47HE1T8. 1938 aerial photo

Wheeling, IL: Metra/SOO Depots

(Satellite)

This town is a study in urban sprawl.

Andy Zukowski posted
Richard Fiedler shared
SOO Line Depot in Wheeling, Illinois. 1968   Photo taken by Wesley L. Hammond

Comments on Andy's post

Dennis DeBruler commented on Scott's second comment
It appears the grain elevator and depot still existed in this 1967 photo. https://chf.isgs.illinois.edu/1967/005103/005103_0271_downsampled.jpg

Dennis DeBruler tried commenting on his comment but Facebook would not nest that deep
Or was the grain elevator already replaced by a ready-mix plant in 1967? https://maps.app.goo.gl/TNW29vpgYvmtBJGq7

Dennis DeBruler also commented
In fact, we can tell by the shadow of the conveyor belt in this 1960 aerial that the grain elevator in the photo has already been replaced by the ready-mix plant. So, the photo does need to be older than 1960. But I do think the depot was extant in 1967.  https://chf.isgs.illinois.edu/1960/000961/000961_0012_downsampled.jpg

This town participated in the suburban clock tower race.

Street View, Jul 2019

The town was created because of the road Milwaukee Ave. instead of the railroad.

1900/00 Highwood Quad @ 62,500

But the town was quick to include the location of the depot.

1928/28 Wheeling Quad @ 24,000

By 1953, a few more streets were added and Wolf Road was built across farmland.

1953/55 Wheeling Quad @ 24,000

By 1963, urban sprawl had reached Wheeling.

1963/63 Wheeling Quad @ 24,000