1.05.298

Print, Photographic

1900 Approximate

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad Roundhouse. 4 1/2" x 3 3/4" black and white photograph of the Waseca Chicago & Northwestern Railroad roundhouse in distance; tracks running along left side of photograph; Highway 14 barely visible at far left of tracks; Waseca water tower in extreme distance; black and white duplicate of Accession 23.02. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. C & NW Railroad.

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.