Great Northern Roundhouse, Dilworth, MN - Railway Roundhouses on Waymarking.com

Until 1906 Dilworth was a small station with a siding serving two grain elevators and had no depot building or agent. The crowding of the Northern Pacific sites in Fargo necessitated the selection of a new site for divisional terminal facilities and Dilworth was chosen. By July 1906, the Northern Pacific had purchased nearly 500 acres of land around the Dilworth siding for the new headquarters.

A main feature of the facility was the roundhouse, a huge building shaped like a doughnut with a bite out of it. In the center of the doughnuts hole was a turntable, like a big Lazy Susan. A locomotive was driven onto the turntable which rotated the engine toward one of 45 stalls. In the stall the locomotive was repaired and refitted. Then the engine backed out onto the turntable and spun about to pull another train back the other direction. From City of Dilworth website: (visit link)

This area is now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe depot and rail yard. After taking a few photos of the remains of the old roundhouse I stopped in at the BNSF depot and was let in to take a photo of some great pictures of the roundhouse.

Number of Stalls: 45 Currently in Operation: no Year Built: Not listed

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