Western Railroad Discussion > Milwaukee Road in Fargo ND then and now

Hello

The Milwaukee Road from 1884 to 1980 ran 117 miles from Ortonville, MN To Fargo ND. Built as the Fargo and Southern railway starting 1881 and completed in 1884 and later sold to the Milwaukee Road.

Today I explored the area around the Depot area in Fargo. The Depot in a food store currently and freight house is apartments.

1. Photo of the depot from 1948 from Tochi products

2. The depot today, build in 1901 then in December 1974 a fire badly damaged the depot in was rebuild by tochi products. Inside the food store there are nice railroad displays.

3. The Freight house that has been converted to apartments

For more info on the Fargo & Southern please check out
http://www.fargo-history.com/transportation/fargo-southern-rr.htm

Enjoy
CJCheely

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And probably illegal controlled substances. But hey, it beats making it a parking lot for a bus station or an airport.

Pump

Cjcheely Wrote:
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> Inside the food store there are
> nice railroad displays.

Part 2

photo 4/5
Former Milwaukee Road track west/south of the depot Currenly use by BNSF as a Industral lead

photo 6
sky top Coffee Creek stored in west fargo



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/11 12:44 by Cjcheely.

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Are you still HQ'd in AZ?

I'm going to assume that these are the same "Coffee Creek"s as in the link below.

My question is why is it otside under a tarp?

http://www.coffeecreek.info/index.shtml

Traingeek087



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/11 15:59 by traingeek087.

It is indeed the Coffee Creek under the tarp. According to a post on the MILW Yahoo! list in Dec. 2009, the person restoring the car stopped work when prospective buyer backed out. Too bad as this is the last surviving Creek-series cars left (as opposed to the Rapids-series of which the 261 group has the Cedar Rapids). At least it is wrapped and somewhat secured.