The Ghosts of Oelwein Part 3

The Ghosts of Oelwein Part 3

The Run Through Maintenance Shop

Back in the day, CNW upgraded Oelwein to be capable of servicing 6 locomotives on 2 tracks in a block building on the east end of the shop... locomotives could be run in one side and out the other...

Here's a former Conrail SD45 next to the run through shop in 1991...

This is one of the rebuilt SD45's that came from Oelwein and was stored at the Harrison Street Shops at East Minneapolis Junction in 1994...

some former Conrail U30C that never got rebuilt, but were stored at Oelwein...

Here's the shop, it's that unpainted concrete block building... where the tracks enter at the top of the picture is right next to where the old Liberty Club was located.  It was a lavatory, locker room, meeting hall and reading room for the workers at the shops.

Where that rectangular hole is in the picture is where the old power house was located.  It had it's own deep water well and a large smoke stack...

Nothing but a pile of sand now.