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Postcard

1910

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad Car Shop. 5 3/8" x 3 1/2" hand-tinted color postcard of the C & NW Railroad Car Shop, Waseca, Minn.; shown are the railroad tracks on left, and Highway 14 further left; there is a railroad car on a side track; and the car shop or roundhouse in the distance to the right of the track; Waseca's water tower can be seen in far distance

Waseca was a C & NW Chicago and North Western division point, or a place where engines were serviced. The roundhouse and car shops were built in 1881 and for many years provided Waseca's largest payroll. Engines were repaired at the roundhouse while cars went on the "riptrack" to the shops for repair. The roundhouse burned in 1953. Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago and Northwestern; Chicago & NorthWestern; Chicago and NorthWestern; Chicago & North Western; Chicago and North Western; Chicago NorthWestern; Chicago North Western; C & NW; C&NW; transportation, railroad, engines, locomotives, train tracks, engineer, trainmen, steam engine, railroad station, train station, Depot.