Abandoned Railroad Town In North Dakota
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- This charming ghost town got its name after the Assistant General Passenger Agent for the Milwaukee railroad which went through the town. Established in the early 1900s, the total population was around 67 residents, the majority of which worked for the railroad, living in section houses.
By 1911, there was a general store, timber yard, a two-roomed school house, and possibly a gas/petrol station.
It also boasted the largest stockyards in the country and several grain elevators.
The post office closed in 1930. Now just a few abandoned buildings remain and a rail cart.
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Very nice
Maybe holds a fire extinguisher ?
good one thank you ALL stay safe
Thanks Dave!
nice job....
Pretty country but bitter cold in winter.
@3:25 That Was Doctor Emmett Brown's Time Train!
.....BTTF Fan? 😉
We are 🤣
That was pretty neat! 🙂👍
I think the thing by the door is for a fire extingquisher.
Caught up with you guys again 🙌🙌🙌 watching from Ohio Smitty out 👋👋👋
Fire extinguisher bracket on wall
howdy guys! that is called a " gandy dancer " town ... r/r worker town ... the holder at the door is a r/r lantern holder..
Thanks. Would that be an oil lantern?
Those round bins are not silos but round grain bins.
Thank you. We know very little about farming.
NOT CANDLE BUT FIRE EXTINGUISHER and the other is insulation for heater stove or furnace LOVE YOUR SHOW, andy you know the one you always hear radio man hum
Thank you so much!
Great video guys as always 👍
Thanks John
It was wonderful seeing that tall prairie grass. What a gorgeous place and the outbuildings still hanging about. I guess if it gets too hot in the house you can just go to the swimming hole in the basement. Y'all are seeing some beautiful country. Amazing Y'all didn't find a loo.
No loo this time 😆. Thanks. It was beautiful scenery with the long grass but lots of ticks 🤮
I could see a huge herd of bison in that beautiful open grassland prairie. Very interesting.
If you love bison you’ll enjoy a video coming out soon.
@@PinInTheAtlas I love them and will be waiting for "the show".
Well what a contrast from the dust, mountains and rocks in Nevada, well done, "Ture Story "
We have many more North Dakota adventures coming out soon! We hope you will enjoy them as well.
Held a fire extinguisher.
STRANGE PLACE,I COULDN'T MAKE HEADS TAILS OF THIS STRANGE PLACE.ND IS A EXPERIANCE.SAFE TRAVELS...
It was so serene and beautiful, North Dakota has some very cool and unexpected explores!
Bracket by school house door for fire extinguisher. Silos are grain bins
Thanks Curt.
The wooden pegs are for glass insulators. Those where once the cross arms at the top of poles that held the wires up along the train tracks.
Oh thanks. Didn’t know that.
North Dakota has a schoolhouse project to begin preservation. It’s pretty neat!
Phantom trains
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this. The big metal cylinder went around the wood stove that heated the classrooms. The metal bracket on the wall looks like a fire extinguisher bracket but I may be wrong about that.
Happy you enjoyed our ‘pin’ Colby. We wondered what the cylinder was used for.
We have new adventures every Tuesday 7am PST. Hope you will join us for more explores.
That bracket by the door is for a pump style fire extinguisher, very common in the early days of fire safety!
I was raised on a farm a few miles south of Tioga in northwestern North Dakota from my birth in 1939 to 1957, when I made the trek to California in my 1957 VW beetle to attend college. The area was homesteaded at the turn of the twentieth century. Most homesteaders were European immigrants, my grandparents being from Norway and Sweden. The farms were largely producing wheat for sale to millers in Minneapolis, MN. The circular steel buildings with conical tops are grain bins. Silos are taller, being built near barns for storage of sileage, a mixture of organic materials used to feed livestock. The reason for so many grain bins on farm was because the grain needed to be stored until market prices peaked. The price offered by millers during the harvest season were the lowest of the year, and the railroad costs to transport the grain to market was the highest of the year at harvest time. In the 1920s, the farmers rebelled and took over the state government to counteract this practice of the millers and railroads. During the period I lived in ND, there were still a few county schools for children who lived to far away from the nearest village, but I lived close enough to attend school in Tioga. At that time home, heating was mainly done with lignite coal which was plentiful, whereas wood was scarce for lack of trees. There were no furnaces with ductwork available until the forties. The space heaters just large coal burning stoves centrally located in the main living area of houses and country schools. The large cylindrical object you saw was probably such a heater, with a double wall separated by a thin air space or insulation to keep the exterior from getting very hot where it could burn any students who touched it. Our heater had an ash pan below the combustion chamber where the coal was burned. I didn't see any sign of the that in the one you observed. There were also some pipes leading to it which lead me to think they may have had a facility in town to generate coal gas for use in the main buildings. That apparatus on the wall near the door was probably a mounting facility for a fire extinguisher.
Hi Elwood! Thank you so much for all of that information we really appreciate you taking the time to share it with us.
Hi ,Steve and Andrea ,Those beams going over the stockyards with the pegs in them Im wondering if back in the day there were some sort of canvas covers over the stock yards to protect the animals from sun/rain /snow while they were in the holding yards which could cause them to loose condition .Regards John Keane.
That sounds plausible,John. It’s the first time we’ve come across this and know very little about livestock.
Well when the video first started I thought you were in Kansas. I would have believed that if you said you were there.
We have yet to explore Kansas, but we have quite a few Pins ready when we go!
I thought I saw an electric Ice Cream maker, it was a light green color in the place with the doors and sink.
There very well could have been, there was so much in that building.
The piece you showed at 8:34 was a heat shield. It was probably originally around the stove you showed earlier and prevented little kids from falling into the hot stove or reaching out and touching it and getting badly burned. A nearby restaurant here (which just closed) had a homemade shield around their wood stove for the same reason.
Thanks Ted. That makes a lot of sense.
The "fire sealant" sandwiched into the heat shield is most likely friable asbestos - nasty stuff.
@@brazosbear4593 Almost certainly, but no one thought about it back then. I used to practically bathe in the stuff while helping my Dad install and repair heating systems.
@@tedrice1026 It's too bad it's so carcinogenic. It is possibly the best thermo insulation ever used. It used to be mixed in concrete to - I've some exposure cutting old concrete.
The candle holder, if this was a more modern era, looks like a fire extinguisher holder. But in the time frame of this building they used water and/or sand to put fires out. Gramma Candy
Someone also mentioned that it could be an oil lamp holder but most comments suggest a fire extinguisher. But we agree with you. Not sure when extinguishers came out.
That was for fire ext. square holding floor was the heat vent for furnace. Which was in the basement. Often in old buildings here in the north.
Thanks for the info Edna!
The bracket by the door in the old school is proablg to holds a kerosene lamp. The upper piece of wood is for brace the chimmie.
Thanks Chris. That makes sense.
Great tour. The artwork on the walls was tastefully done. Similar to Banksy.
It’s for the fire extinguisher
Holder
Hi,
The black thing in the schoolhouse ( on the door frame ) looks like a fire extinguisher bracket-- would be where i would expect it to be placed. The big round thing -- could be a shield for the stove to prevent children getting burnt
Thank you David!
Stunning ....until winter hits
Your videos have improved nicely. I really enjoy them. I'm going to need to do some research as I want to visit this location along with my camera. Thank you guys 🙂
Thanks Keith. Still learning! ND has some amazing old buildings and ghost towns that your camera will be really happy with.
Andrea and Steven,
There was another abandoned town, one of many in North Dakota ,which was featured on a local T.V. station.
That one was fairly close to BIsmarck and the people died out and their children left for the cities.
I've been to Bismarck in the winter and it's very cold and windy as is much of the state.
Many of the places, like the one you visited, still have descendants in the area who are trying to preserve their heritage.
Unfortunately, North Dakota is a large State with a rather small population centered mostly in the population centers.
POlicing the Heritage is difficult but easier than in places with milder climates, you have to be a real nut job or
truly anti-social to want to deface that history.
There is something lovely and timeless watching those grasslands move in the wind, and your video
and music evoke a sense of nostalgia for the past.
As always,
Cheers,
Rik Spector
We will have to do some more research on that town and see if we can find out what’s left. We honestly fell in love with the wide open grasslands on a slightly breezy day. Thank so much Rik!
Ghost trains.
3 grain bins . I’d be scared walking in the tall grass. Snakes .??
We were more concerned about ticks, Tina. Lol. And we still had several on us even though we sprayed
@@PinInTheAtlas still best to be couscous
@@tinadelwiche416 Always on the lookout for snakes too.
There ain't no snakes up there lol
Music was sssoooo coool. I was waiting for a dolls head to spin around and look at Steve with that; Hi handsome look on its face.:-) That one big round thingy looked like a chimney off of an old locomotive. That big "corral" i think was for fixing trains, they appeared to be about the right distance apart to slide a car in between the post. That one place with the water in the basement? Yea, prime example of frost heave. That's why the concrete was all pushed out and laying on the ground. Well, put my two cents in and will be seeing you on your next one. Oh, i almost forgot; my great- great grand dad was an engineer on the Burlington- Northern. That's how we got the property in Montana!
The basement was spooky Richard. Wonder what was underneath the water? Would have loved to have gotten over to the cars but the grass was too long and we didn’t know where we were walking. Glad you enjoyed our pin. Well see you on our next adventure.
I was there earlier this month (August) had to check out the Milwaukee boxcar. “Route of the Hiawathas”
I didn’t check out the school.
Very cool few other towns near there that are neat. Stay at Marmath!
We filmed this one in mid June. Don't remember exactly where we stayed after this, but North Dakota has some absolutely amazing campsites!
Yes they do, live just north of their. TRP is amazing as well in Medora.
@@marktaylor9975 Stay tuned we do have a vid on that and many more places in N.D. coming out soon Mark. We hope you will enjoy those.
@@PinInTheAtlas You line them up and I’ll knockem over.
Good looking forward to these close to home.
I live off the Hiawatha Service line from Milwaukee to Chicago . The Milwaukee line was integral to westward expansion. So amazing!
Steven, Andrea, I would like to thank You for traveling and sharing your adventures with us. It is a great thing to some that no longer travel to see such sights, Be Blessed and may good fortune follow you, Happy days. John in Texas
Thank you so much John. We really appreciate your kind words and happy that you are joining us on our explores. See you on our next adventure.
not a candle holder (the place had electricity) maybe an extinguisher holder
Not sure! Could be.
Or maybe an incomplete cup dispenser (would have had a hollow tube between those two horizontal fittings) for disposable cups there might have been a passive water cooler next to the door at one time.
I also thought fire extinguisher. If it was a candle holder it would have been a huge candle.
@@davidm.9510 Someone also mentioned it could have been an oil lamp holder!
@@craigbrowning9448 lol
When you were in that building with all stuff in it, it sounded like you were playing I spy. Lol. Good to see you two again.
Hi Debra! Great to hear from you, hope all is well! That is funny we do get excited to spot different thing!
I just adore you two! Thank you for your craft... your videos are one of the best out there.
Thank you so much Leesha! We are always striving to improve and make enjoyable content. Glad you come along on our adventures with us, we have plenty more to come!
Fantastic verdant prairie! 1959, my family moved to rural Moberly, MO. Attended 2nd grade at Grimes School - a 1-room country school taught by an older schoolmarm. No running water. Well with old-fashion metal pump. My 2 older brothers and I became students 7, 8 & 9. Lunch room and giant furnace in the basement. Decades later my brother discovered it flooded. Large, maybe 3-foot by 3-foot floor, grate - midway from wall to wall and about 1/3 way from north wall - directly from furnace heated the very large room. Stood over it on really cold days, but for only a few moments because of the intense heat. 2 years later when the teacher passed away, we attended Sugar Creek - a 2-room country school. More modern, brick building again with a single schoolmarm for grades 1 through 8. True story.
Wow that is incredible thank you so much for sharing David. Sounds good for my feet as they are always cold!
@@davidensign5172 nice
Some places have floor furnaces. A vent my run to the outside although in the olden days they were not real concerned with venting. The Japanese use kerosine heaters which spew CO all over the place.
Thanks Roger. Didn’t know about floor furnaces. First time we’ve seen these.
Nice. I have always like small towns. When I retired. Moved 7 miles outside a small town. Up in the TN mountains.
Another state we are excited to explore one of these days. Small towns are where it’s at for us too after weeks out in the great unknown to resupply. Love the charm, character and kindness they all have.
A long trek on the tracks. Enjoyed this vlog.
Thank you Arleen!
I wish you guys got to see a bubbler in the school house . A Midwestern tradition
What's a bubbler?
A drinking fountain?
Not sure!
Yes it’s a drinking fountain . The first references to drinking fountains as bubblers in Milwaukee newspapers turned up in 1910, when they're called "sanitary bubblers," "fountain bubblers" or "water bubblers." The prefixes fell away by the early 1920s. It’d because it creates a bubble when the pressure pushes the water up into the drinking portion
@@KristinaFerrarino oh thanks for the info. Didn’t know any of that. We’ll be sure to look out for one.
Could be a fire extinguisher holder for the old brass fore extinguishers seen similar here in the UK, hope you're both well.
We are both doing wonderful and thank you for the info on the fire extinguisher!
As usual fascinating! Great adventure!
Great vid! Loved the music and the location! ☺️
Thank you very much!
Really nice guys please keep up the good work guys enjoy watching these so much thank you
You’re very welcome Ben. Glad you are enjoying our pins. Many more to come.
i know exactly where your at, ill be passing through there this friday.thanks for keeping the location off the video, people destroy stuff.
We don’t give out locations for that reason. So annoying that people feel they have a right to trash and loot places! We need to preserve history.
@@PinInTheAtlas i get flack for not disclosing alot of my locations but the general public cant leave things be,they either vandalize it or steal from it.
The "Bathroom Basin" @15:17 is no earlier than the 1950s and probably later.
Sweet though. Thanks. We wondered about the date. The question is was it used there or was it stored? Not sure when the last people left.
Love the metalwork on whatever that large piece is. One of my favorite episodes
Thank you Virginia
You guys are finding some really beautiful places. Another well done video. It's nice to see so much green for a change. Thanks again, Andrea and Steve.
Our first ND ghost town. Pretty impressive! Thanks Michael. Glad you enjoyed our pin. More to come.
Those darn hooligans lol! Thanks for the shout out Andrea 😁 Stunning video & really cool beautiful scenery. All I kept thinking of was seeing Russell Crowe walking through that long grass in his gladiator costume! Loved the choice of music, very eerie. For some reason this place really gave me the heebie jeebies. I'm like, nah, don't want to go there! Really love what you both do & you keep getting better & better each week. Great how Tonto always sneaks into view lol. Thank you so, so much for sharing your adventures with us. Really appreciate your hard work & time it takes putting it all together. See you next week! Stay safe & take care.
You say Russel Crowe, Andrea would say Leonardo Dicaprio, I would say Princess Diana, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connect and Gillian Anderson would have been great in my book! This set the bar high for our explores in North Dakota Sue and it did not disappoint plenty more incredible places to come. We both are so honoured and grateful to have such amazing support we couldn’t do this without it. Thanks for everything Sue!
Love the scene of the both of you walking down the railroad tracks. So sweet. Like the ghost town, very interesting. Thank you for sharing and be safe and God Bless.
Thanks Rose. Sweet little town wasn’t it? Glad you enjoyed it.
Such a beautiful, site. Clouds look like power puffs
It really was unbelievably gorgeous
It is a very interesting place. Being so close to, and working for the railroad, explains why the country's largest stockyards would be there, I suppose. Thank you Andrea and Steven. Those rolling grasslands, really made the perfect setting. This was very enjoyable. 👏💚👏
Thanks Rhonda. A little different from what we normally film. If it hadn’t been for the long grass we could have explored more.
@@PinInTheAtlas SAFETY first, dear friends... 💝💖
Another awesome adventure with my Pin and coffee cool place
Glad you enjoyed it Ray
@@PinInTheAtlas Always enjoy your videos
Some really good filming in this one :-) Good to see some green stuff for a change, and also good to see old stuff without bulletholes in it. Loved the outro; hope it survived!!
Totally agree about the bulletholes
State tree of North Dakota,,,,, telephone pole. I enjoy going to North Dakota. It has a beauty all its own.
😂
Too Funny, John !
I lived in a house with a floor furnace .My house was built in the Forty's and it was heated by a floor furnace.I got to use it a couple years in the 70s.The owner told us it costed 4 thousand dollars to build when WW2 started.It was a 2 bedroom ,dining room is kitchen,living room and wash room. It's still being lived in but has been insulated .Wish I still had it.😒Stockyards were a big deal,buyers and sellers Houghton and shipped cattle by rail.Farmers took their cattle there to sell. Such a beautiful place ,you can just imagine cattle there fattening up on that grass.Thank you guys for the wonderful tour.👍❤️😍
Wow that sounds incredible Gayle, too bad you didn’t still have it but at least you have the memories!
Thoroughly brilliant explore! What a gem. Certainly, you couldn't have asked for a better first ND ghost town explore landscape and sky! Steven's cinematography skills, though! I couldn't sort out what the cylindrical hammered metal would've been used for, unless it was a surround to a boiler. It seemed quite large. Typically, I'm no fan of graffiti in any form. Though, agree this wasn't your usual. Very evocative of the train period and relevant to the town. Very well done, that. Even the Hallowe'en graffiti scene was done up very well.
Awww thank you so much Joey we are always trying to make each video better and better, this one has a special place with us. So many more cool explores from North Dakota are coming, we loved it!
Summer months in North Dakota=Heaven.....transforms into hell during winter.
I'd live there if it was 85° year round.
It sure gets cold up there in the winter!
Hard to believe anybody could live a normal life in so desolate an environment. Must have been hard to find appropriate friends.
Never thought of that Richard. Pretty remote area.
It's for a fire extinguisher.
It's a holder for puting out fires in all buildings these days.
Thank you. I liked that place. I think that candle holder was for a oil lamp because it had the clip on top to hold the chimney. Loved that big decorated heater piece. You guys got me checking for ticks now! I been camping.
Did you find any ticks?
Oil lamp sounds plausible. We’ve had lots of comments about it possibly being a fire extinguisher holder.
Glad you enjoyed it Chris. See you next time.
@@PinInTheAtlas no ticks yet. Yep maybe fire extinguisher.
Hey guys, been following for a while now. Love the channel. Loving the improved video quality and the background music in your more recent videos. Keep it up!
Thanks Aaron. We’re improving all the time. Still have lots to learn. Our early videos are somewhat scratchy 😂
You can watch for ticks all you want, it won't help. The ones that get you will never bee seen and they go to places you don't want. Generally not a concern in the cold.
Don’t we know it! 😂
that 1/2 inch is real important..( THATS WHAT SHE SAID).. haha .. sorry guys couldn't resist.. y'all need to get on up to the "sheldon range" northern nevada...
Lol. We’ll pin it. If there’s anything you can suggest please email us
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Thanks
HOW ABOUT THE INDIAN REV .IN BELLCOURT NORTH DAKOTA TURTLE MOUNTAIN.
Filming in Reservations is difficult. Normally permits are required if they allow filming at all. Thanks for the suggestion though. Keep them coming!
I didn’t know North Dakota had ghost towns in a different way then you are used to seeing. Very interesting place but was it used as a way station on the railroad line which was finally abandoned as a cost saving measure??
It was the largest stock yard in its day and the trains still pass through. Cute place though. Would love to have seen it with all the buildings intact.
Love this video since I'm a railroad guy. Not much is left of railroad history. Our railroad generally removes older standing structures for liability purposes. I've seen many old crew section houses torn down that were historic and unique examples of a bygone era of railroading. Hard to watch especially being an archaeologist. Funny that tagger has done that same style locomotive out here in the Mojave desert. He sure gets around like you guys.
It is a shame that history is disappearing before our eyes. Soon there won’t be much left which is why we are attempting to document as much as possible. Glad you enjoyed this explore. Would have been a beautiful place in its day. And that tagger! We don’t agree with vandalism of any kind but at least this is tasteful.
This whole line is neat. Followed it from Hettinger to Mile City Montana. Rode the grade in some spots of the old Milwaukee found some scrap- of a 1880 tie plate near Terry on the grade, spikes, anchors and washers, a dozen depots, MOW buildings and a handful of vintage boxcars. If your a RR nut its well worth the pilgrimage.
Old Soo line guy here worked the old Milw in the Twin Cites.
Builder cut lots out to save cash. Substandard building 👷♀️ practices. My opinion just saying
If Lutefisk were Outlawed then only Outlaws would eat Lutefisk!
Hi there Stephen & Andrea. At 9:06, metal holder should be for Fire Extinguisher. About the small posts on the long beams at 18:23 & 1838, looked like they might be tapered with spiral threads that may indicate glass insulators were threaded onto them ( or possibly some other ornaments). When you travel into areas where Ticks may be, have you thought about wearing ‘light-colored’ clothing (white or gray). Harder to see Ticks on darker shaded clothing. Also, a tip to reduce the chance of getting Ticks on your legs, wear calf to knee-high socks/leggings and tuck the pants-legs inside the socks. The Ticks are visible on outside and shouldn’t be able to get to skin on legs. Works for Chiggers, too. Also, Fire Ants. Still enjoying the videos!! Keep Safe & Healthy!!!
Thanks Cary, yes we kind of thought insulators at first too, just wanted to clarify. For the ticks, we purchased Premethrin after this explore and it works wonders. Didn’t have a single one after using. This explore though the count was 8 on me, 2 or 3 on Andrea.
Sorry "true story"