(rshsdepot) Bangor Township, South Dakota (incl. Aberdeen, South Dakota, Pipestone, Minn. & Sioux Falls 5 depots, Wall, Wasta, Rapid City, Watertown, S.D.))

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Here we see Bangor Township, Brookings County, South Dakota,
1897: http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdbrooki/maps1897/bangor.html
1901: http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdbrooki/maps1901/bangor.html
And there's the railroad. The Chicago and North Western RR.

To the east Volga, Brookings, Aurora, Elkton, and to the west over in
Kingsbury County is Arlington, the large city further west Huron, Pierre and
Rapid City. This is eastern part of state, in the middle, on the Minnesota
border.
 Three railroads went through north-south in or near this county. Through
Arlington comes the Great Northern line from Sioux City on its way north to
Watertown, S.D. Next stop north of Arlington is Badger;  just west of
Brookings, is a CNW line north to Watertown, next stop north is Bruce:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdbrooki/maps1901/brookings.html

On the eastern end of Brookings County a north-south Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific line went through Elkton:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdbrooki/maps1897/elkton.html
Heading north out of (Hardwick and) Pipestone, Minn., this line headed north
Bushnell, White, Toronto, and Brandt in South Dakota before terminating at
Clear Lake. The largest city other than Brookings or Watertown near Bangor
Township, South Dakota is Madison, S.D. to the south, this had the Milwaukee
Road line going east-west through it, and one heading north which goes
through Hetland, west of Arlington, and heads far north to the Milwaukee
Road line at the north of the state at Bristol and Holquist. Mitchell is
another large town West of Madison the north-south Milwaukee Road went
through Wolsey, further south on this line is Mitchell.

THE CNW opened 1879 to as far west as Volga.

South Dakota State College is in Brookings:
http://216.247.8.124/pixfiles/3252.jpg

The CNW depot, Pierre:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/hughes/postcards/cnwdep.jpg
Both this C&NW rail line and the Milwaukee Road from Sioux Falls and Mitchel
went to Rapid City

Before Rapid City on the CNW is Wall. The Wall depot, 1956:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11371.jpg
In 1980, a boxcar had replaced this building:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11378.jpg
Wasta depot next stop west:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/pennington/postcards/wcnwdp.jpg

Rapid City Milwaukee Road depot, 1980:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11355.jpg
Rapid City CNW depot
The old depot in 1978: http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11354.jpg
The "new" depot in 1976: http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11356.jpg

The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway depot at Watertown, South Dakota:
http://eldora.net/lyndon/depots/depwatertown.html This line came from St.
Paul, milepost 234.1 was Watertown, SD:
 The line headed WNW to Leola as you see.
Wallace, S.D.: http://eldora.net/lyndon/depots/wallace.jpg
Bradley, 1907: http://eldora.net/lyndon/towns/bradley2.jpg
M&StL, Aberdeen, South Dakota: http://eldora.net/lyndon/depots/aberdeen.jpg

The C&NW Watertown depot, 1977 (same depot):
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11372.jpg

Pipestone, Minnesota:
Pre-1913 Great Northern depot:
http://www.pipestoneminnesota.com/museum/images/226.jpg
The Rock Island depot is the only of four still standing in Pipestone:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pipestone/rid.htm
(Originally the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad.
The railroad from Pipestone to Sioux Falls was originally the Willmar &
Sioux Falls Railroad.

Huron, South Dakota C&NW depot with steam train:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/beadle/postcards/cnwdep.jpg
the station was also a hotel:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/beadle/postcards/dephot.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/beadle/postcards/cnwhot.jpg
CNW bridge in Huron:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/beadle/postcards/nwbr.jpg
The Huron roundhouse: http://pix.epodunk.com/SD/sd_huron01.jpg

Madison, S.D. began with the coming of the Milwaukee Road in 1881. The
railroad had bypassed Madison, but convinced the residents to relocate their
town (along with residents of Herman) to this new Madison. Here is the
roundhouse: http://www.madison.k12.sd.us/discoversd/histor3.gif
Madison (S.D.) Milwaukee Road depot, 1977:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11336.jpg

The very nice Rock Island Station, Sioux Falls, S.D.:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/minnehaha/postcards/ridep.jpg
Great Northern depot, Sioux Falls, S.D.:
http://www.classicrail.com/cards/sd1490.JPEG
Burlington Northern depot, Sioux Falls, 1979:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11362.jpg
Virtually unchanged.
C&NW depot, Sioux Falls, 1980: http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11364.jpg
Illinois Central Gulf RR, Sioux Falls, 1979, a short castle:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11366.jpg
IC came to Sioux Falls from Iowa.
Milwaukee Road depot, Sioux Falls, 1980:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11360.jpg
Sioux Falls Traction System (1907-1929) meet at Summit and 11th:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/minnehaha/postcards/11sum.jpg
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/minnehaha/postcards/11sum2.jpg
http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/sd/htm/sf02.htm

The railroad bridge at Dell Rapids:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/minnehaha/postcards/rrbr.jpg
This was the Great Northern (BN) to Watertown out of Sioux Falls.
(Originally the Watertown & Sioux Falls RR)
Dell Rapids is in Minnehaha County.

Mitchell, SD Milwaukee Road depot:
http://www.sd4history.com/Unit6/images/MitchellDepot.jpg
1979: http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/7156.jpg
 Quite a change

Redfield is west of Watertown on that Chicago and North Western line, a
Milwaukee Road line ran north-south through Mitchel, Wolsey, Redfield to
Aberdeen and all the way up to Jamestown, North Dakota. Here is the Midland
Continental station in Jamestown, their second depot there. It's upper
floors housed the studios of a local radio station in the early 1940's and
since 1963 has been the Sullivan's Florists:
http://home.att.net/~rrhistry/midcont00037.jpg
The C&NW also went n-s from Aberdeen through Redfield to Huron.
Here is the CNW depot at Redfield, SD
1915:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~handcosd/Spink/album/redf-depot-teens
580btn.jpg
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~handcosd/Spink/album/redf-depot-train
- -col600btn.jpg
c. 1916:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~handcosd/Spink/album/redf-depot1916-6
00btn.jpg
1979: http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11350.jpg
2002:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~handcosd/Spink/album/redf-depot9-11-0
2-600btn.jpg
The old Milwaukee Road depot at Redfield in 1979:
http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11352.jpg

Here is the Pierre Lodge, Black Hills, South Dakota in Rapid Canyon with
passenger train
http://216.247.8.124/pixfiles/5774.jpg

McIntosh, S.D. Milwaukee Road depot. This undated photo is great, you can
feel the desolation, the pioneer times in this old photo:
http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/corsoncounty/mcintosh_sd_depot.jpg
1980: http://www.dicklightle.com/Pictures/11420.jpg
Reduced a story over the years
McIntosh is on the "top" of South Dakota, on the northerly Milwaukee Road
line through Aberdeen, the one to Seattle.  McIntosh is in most northerly
North Dakota, west of Walker.

Here is concise traction histories of Aberdeen, Rapid City, Sioux Falls and
Watertown: http://hometown.aol.com/chirailtwo/trnsitsd.html
<In the summer of 1890, South Dakota’s first electric railway, the South
Dakota Rapid Transit and Railroad Company made its maiden run between Sioux
Falls and East Sioux Falls.>

The South Dakota Rapid Transit and Railroad Company began June 1890, making
it one of the earliest traction lines in the World. Sioux Falls to East
Sioux Falls.
< On Friday, June 13, 1890, at five o’clock in the afternoon, the first trip
over the electric motor line was made.  Three trips in all were made during
the evening of that day, and as this was the first electric train that had
ever been run in the state, it was quite an event.  Everything worked
smoothly, and to the entire satisfaction of the management.
     On Saturday, June 21, 1890, the motor line commenced running regular
trains to East Sioux Falls.
     For two or three years there was considerable traffic over this line,
and during the summers it was largely patronized by picnic parties and
pleasure seekers, who invariable enjoyed the seven-mile trip between the two
cities.  But the enterprise did not prove a good investment, and after
considerable struggling against adverse circumstances, it went into the
hands of a receiver, and during the summer of 1898 the rails were taken up,
and we regret to state, there is now nothing left but the bare roadbed to
remind the people that there was at one time a rapid transit railway line
between the cities of Sioux Falls and East Sioux Falls.>
This from a page of  Minnehaha history that includes many railroads:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdsvgs/index86.htm
You will even find the elevations of each of the 4 Sioux Falls depots
noted. No Rock Island, perhaps this dates the excerpted history. Plus times
to principle points on  railroads, The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern, Illinois Central, Great Northern, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul,
and the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha.
And no pictures seem to exist, at least on-line.


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