Storm damage at the "Omaha"

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This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops
Storm damage at the "Omaha"

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad roundhouse.

Photographer: Minneapolis Star Journal Tribune

Date: September 4, 1941

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Omaha Railroad Shops

By Dave Riehle
Constructed beginning in the late 1800’s, the railroad shops of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (the “Omaha”) at Randolph and Toronto Streets employed nearly 1,000 workers for the first half of the 20th century. The West End…