My Back Pages - In and Out Freight

A building in Minneapolis’ warehouse district, circa 1975. The Soo Line was a Minnesota-based railroad company, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railways. The Soo Line name was retired in 1992.

When this place was built (in the 1880s), the workers in these warehouses unloaded boxcars on one side of the building and loaded horse-drawn wagons on the other. Most of these places have been torn down for condos or repurposed for other commercial use.

“But now… when that world is no more… the spirits rise up from the well of oblivion. People and pictures from a vanished world are reincarnated and assume a significance which was hidden at the time.” ~ Halldór Laxness, The Fish Can Sing