Biggar's Roundhouse's Remains
Channel: ImgursDownvote4Love
Date: 2015-03-02

This is all that is left of the Last GTPR Roundhouse in the World, which was located in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Demolition started on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, and continued through today. The roundhouse was built from 1908-1909 and was expanded in 1923. It was built because Biggar was going to be a major railway terminal for switching crews between Edmonton and Winnipeg.
The roundhouse was abandoned in 1950 and slated for demolition in 1971. Luckily, the demolition was postponed while a lease was being signed. In 1975, The 2nd largest turkey farm in Saskatchewan opened, and was in use until 2005. From then until 2009, it was used for grain storage, and then was once again slated for demolition. However, this was once again postponed (then canceled) because mayor Ray Sadler and Rey Chamberland collected over 3,000 signatures (and a few thousand pigeons, rats, etc. that had moved in) to save it. In 2014, the residents of Biggar were notified that if not enough people supported saving the nearby train station, it was to be demolished (it hasn't been yet). Then in late January, the roundhouse was under a demolition permit and was torn down a month later.