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United States >
Texas >
Tyler >
The Rail Road Backshop
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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A large turn of the century railroad maintenance building surrounded by a busy rail yard on one side and an active seed company on the other. The abandoned building which is the subject of this DB location was approximately 36000 sqft two story brick exterior on steel frame. Just south is an active freight terminal with trucks constantly coming and going. Directly west is the Union Pacific yard office. I watched rail workers coming and going to switch engines in the yard and a RR security man driving around in a white crew cab Ford pick up with a light bar. Do not park on the rail road property. (this building may have been on railroad property) Its easy enough to hike in from the neighborhood just south of the site but watch for bums and hobos. The yard was full of them today trying to get out of the cold wind. UPDATE: There were two old buildings. One is a warehouse and office for the seed company. The other is now demolished It was so dilapidated Im surprised it stood as long as it did. There were major structural problems with this building. The large window boarding and patch panels were blowing off the roof in the high wind when I was there. Many of the steel girders were rusted completely through.
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Type: Building
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: forget it
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rust unsafe flooring flooding water crumbling bricks and falling debris, fast moving freight trains, yard birds and hobos
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19th century architecture + abundant rust and decay + hobos
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location borders on Union Pacific property
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This building was once a backshop for the Southern Pacific Railroad which dates back to around 1890. (a backshop was what they called a maintenance shop located within the railyard) I also found reference to a turn table or roundhouse at this site (not to be confused with the round incinerator structure still present) where locomotives could be turned around to head back down the line in the other direction but it was demolished long ago. There wasnt much more history available online for this location. At some point this building was converted to a cotton gin or feed mill of some type. Some material handling equipment from that operation was still present as well as the large round structure which is similar to incinerators seen at seed mills or cotton gins used to burn waste and hulls. This building was demolished on August 31 2007.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 9/1/2007 3:22 PM.
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on Sep 1 07 at 15:22, Emperor Wang validated this location on Sep 1 07 at 13:53, Explorer Zero updated the main picture on Sep 1 07 at 13:23, Explorer Zero changed the following: Display Name, Owner, Latitude, Longitude, Publically Viewable, History on Sep 1 07 at 13:07, Explorer Zero changed the following: Real Name, History, Status, Recommendation, Security Measures, Required Equipment, Description on Sep 1 07 at 5:12, Raticus added some pictures to a gallery on Sep 1 07 at 5:10, Raticus updated gallery Gone now on Sep 1 07 at 5:09, Raticus deleted 1 pictures from gallery Gone now on Sep 1 07 at 5:09, Raticus added some pictures to a gallery on Sep 1 07 at 5:08, Raticus added some pictures to a gallery on Sep 1 07 at 5:06, Raticus created a new gallery
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