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Location DB > United States > Minnesota > Minneapolis > Shoreham Yards Roundhouse
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Shoreham Yards Roundhouse
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 Database Info
created by GreyKat on 10/1/2009 4:19 AM
last modified by Emperor Wang on 10/20/2022 6:36 PM
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 Overview
 Description
Demolished in 2019 :(
 Basic Information
Type: Building
Status: Demolished :(
Accessibility: Easy - it's gone :(
Recommendation: forget it - It's gone :(
 Physical Information
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
United States
Owner: Superfund site
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  •  Hazards
  • asbestos
  • rust
  • On active railroad property
  •  Interesting Features

     Security Measures
  • fences
  • barbed wire
  • part-time guard
  • locked gates
  • wooden boarding
  • cameras
  • Railroad personel
  •  Historical Dates
    Built: 1887
    Closed: 1970
     Required Equipment
  • flashlight
  • breathing mask
  • gloves
  • long pants / sleeves
  •  Recommended Equipment
    A time machine!
     History
    Shoreham Yards was built in the late 1800s by the grain millers who went on eventually to found General Mills and Pillsbury, among other notable feats. Feeling hindered by James J. Hill's stranglehold on the transportation market and his rail company's high prices, the millers founded the Soo Line Railroad (had a longer name then) to get grain to their Minneapolis mills and their flour out to the world, eventually transforming Minneapolis into the Milling and Flour Capital of the World, and essentially putting Minneapolis and Minnesota on the map. Soo Line's home yard was the massive Shoreham Yards; 230-some acres today, employing upwards of 1,000 workers in its heydey. Steam locomotives were built at the site, tools were invented at the site, and the site was an all-encompassing self-contained rail village, with even a greenhouse for train table decor and some edibles, a passenger depot , a blacksmith shop, its own steam plant, and of course, the last remaining, intact roundhouse (older than the re-creation in St. Paul's Jackson yard) in our region. In fact, Jackson contains many remnants from Shoreham, since so much of Jackson had to be re-created. The site was listed as one of the Top 10 Endangered Sites in Minnesota a couple years ago, and remains that way now. The roundhouse and the tiny passenger depot are about all that remain of the site that transported Minneapolis and indeed the state to world-wide fame and economic importance and influence. It is now used as a rail container transfer station.

    ~Gayle Bonneville, Minneapolis, MN
     Media Coverage
    https://www.mynort...m-roundhouse-gone/
     Future Plans
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     Stories
    The Old Roundhouse
    Thu, Oct 1st, 2009
    posted by GreyKat


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    Shoreham Yards Roundhouse
    Thu, Oct 1st, 2009
    posted by GreyKat
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     Panoramas

    Roundhouse p1
    Thu, Oct 1st, 2009
    posted by GreyKat
     Web Links
    https://www2.minne...-yards-roundhouse/
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     Validation
    This location's validation is current. It was last validated by Emperor Wang on 10/20/2022 6:36 PM.

     Latest Changes
  • on Oct 20 22 at 18:36, Emperor Wang validated this location
  • on Oct 20 22 at 18:36, Emperor Wang changed the following: Web Links
  • on Oct 20 22 at 18:34, Emperor Wang changed the following: History
  • on Oct 20 22 at 15:27, fr00tCake changed the following: Latitude, Longitude, Co-ordinate Accuracy, Status, Accessibility, Recommendation, Media Coverage, Description, Web Links
  • on Nov 1 14 at 15:04, Mike Dijital validated this location
  • on Oct 28 14 at 21:11, rlx changed the following: Status, Accessibility, Description
  • on May 26 14 at 8:27, Steed validated this location
  • on Mar 17 14 at 17:22, GreyKat changed the following: Publically Viewable, Status
  • on Oct 4 09 at 5:44, Emperor Wang validated this location
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