Soo Line Depot

It seems I have seen a photo of this depot before but I can't remember. This image is from a YouTube video about some Alcos that were developed for the military. Does anybody know where this was/is?

It's that neat post-WWII RR architecture Hardcoaler and I (and I'm sure others) like.

EDIT: Never mind. I just finally noticed the "Neenah" on the building. You would think I would have looked for that right off the bat.

Doug

 

I don't know where it is, but it appears to have that same stacked stone veneer (I'll even bet it's a greenish colored sandstone.)

There was a beautiful example of that kind of stone veneer on a physician's building here in Arlington TX, until some idiot replaced the stone veneer to "modernize" the look of the building a few years ago. Ugh.

That veneer is also still on one wall (south side, near west end) of Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena TX, where I was a freshman and sophomore, before we moved away.

 

I just missed your edit, Doug!

Nope, The Soo Line Depot's not green! The veneer I was thinking of (green) is edge-on stacked stone of very uniform height (almost like brick, but of random lengths, longer than bricks)

 

Whoever decided to update the building's facade should be consigned to work a stone quarry somewhere.

Great stuff @Doug Gosha !

 

This picture is attributed to Roger Putnam

 

If you are a Soo Line modeler, that station looks like it might be a pretty easy scratch build.

 

Yes, that picture is from 1963. Here is a photo I found on Flickr by David Wilson. I wasn't going to post it because it is so sad but, in the interest of history and time progression, I guess:



I don't know exactly when it was taken but I assume it was in the early 2000s because somebody commented about the poles being removed in 2014. What poles he meant, I don't know.

Doug

 

Telephone poles on the right of way?

 

Probably and when I look at the google aerial view of that address, there is a different building there and it even looks like the tracks are gone, although the quality of the view is terrible and if you look a little farther north, there obviously are rails there.

Another weird thing is, when you look at the photos of the depot, the tracks going by it are curved but a map of these times and the aerial view shows them as straight. Realignment at some point?

Doug

 

While the photo brings me sadness as well, I thank you for posting it.