Stevenson, AL: 1872 NC&StL + Southern Depot and Lost Grain Elevator

(Satellite, 195 photos)

Andrew Waldo posted

This well-known NC&StL station at Stevenson, Alabama still stands today in all its glory. Built in 1872, it served both the Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis Railroad and the Southern Railway. Of their joint use, the Engineering Field Notes say this: 

"Pilot [a member of the survey team] claims ownership for NC&StL acct. No contract. Used jointly. Both roads have tracks to bldg."

The team speeder waiting on the NC&StL track is just right of center, not far from some stray(?) livestock "grazing" on the platform. Waiting for the local?

Photo taken 19 June 1916.

Photo Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis Railroad, Valuation Section 4 (Bass-Carpenter), Building Notes, Alabama.

Looking at my 1928 RR Atlas, CSX/NC&StL came into Stevenson, AL, from the north and NS/Southern came from the west. They share a route east to Chattanooga, TN. Near this town, NC&StL came in from the northwest while Southern came in from the southwest. They both left to the northeast.

1950 Stevenson Quad @ 24,000

The CSX/NC&StL side has an agent's bay window. 

Strick Yak, Oct 2018

Note that the hotel behind the depot is also extant.

A Douglas Weitzman photo, used with permission
1/3/16. The old NC&StL depot in Ala.. CSX track and other side is NS.
Depot & hotel south of it built in 1872.
[I think Doug has the tracks reversed because the NS side doesn't have an agent's bay window.]

 

Mike Stephens, Feb 2019, cropped

 

Jeff McCrary, Apr 2016, cropped

A Douglas Weitzman photo

The station has a static display of an industrial locomotive and a caboose.

Doug's comment: "#5 a 44 toner,  built 9, 1942, was Rio Grande 39, Mead Container board, # unknown."

I got this older street view because...

Street View, May 2014

...while looking for a decent street view of the depot, I noticed the grain elevator that I saw on the satellite image was torn down. It was torn down by Sep 2023, but they still haven't scrapped some of the bins.

Street View, Feb 2024

Greenwich, OH: B&O Junction (GN) Tower: B&O vs. WE/NW/AC&Y/NOH

(Satellite, it was halfway between Pleasant and Center Streets. It might be still standing.)

WE = Wheeling & Lake Erie

AC&Y = Akron, Canton & Youngstown

NOH = Northern Ohio

Darren Reynolds posted three photos with the comment: "B&Os 'GN' tower   Greenwich,  Ohio"

1

"GN" tower is a one floor " Cabin or Shack " tipe office

That dooted the B&O system. This is just but one I'll be

Posting...

Photo by: Rob Mandeville July 1977

2

CSX Eng-# 6004 ready to pass "GN" tower June 1993

Photo by: Ed lenio

3

Another view of "GN" tower Oct.12,1992

Photo by: Robert Staples

All images from North American interlockings States A to Z and Canada..

The AC&Y track is now abandoned northeast of Greenwich. Note the "AC&Y Trl" on Google Maps. Wheeling and Lake Erie (WE) now owns the AC&Y route southwest of Greenwich. CSX now owns the Big Four route as well as the B&O route. I assume that WE has trackage rights on the CSX tracks to another junction with the WE on the northeast side of  New London, OH.

1960 Greenwich Quad @ 24,000

Note that some of the building on the right is still standing with some new buildings added to it.

May 8, 1959 @ 18,000; AR1VZB000030055

Bowdoin, MT: Lost/Great Northern Roundhouse and Coaling Tower

(Satellite)

Lorrie Bernhardt posted
Defunct Great Northern train roundhouse near Bowdoin, Montana
Hugh Odom shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Hugh's share
Not only is the roundhouse defunct, the whole town is defunct. It looks like the coaling tower is extant.
 https://www.google.com/maps/@48.3958349,-107.5989031,597m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

Willard/Chicago Junction, OH: Yard Towers: (J) and Hump

West End (J): (Satellite, it is gone.)

Hump: (Satellite, it is extant.)

Go here for the railyard, roundhouse and depot.

Darren Reynolds posted five photos with the comment: "B&Os 'J' tower  Willard, Ohio."

Greg Smith: It had a spiral staircase up to the second floor.

"J "tower was at the Westend of Willard yards.. And the

Beginning of the Chicago division. It was built in the early 50s with a NX interlocking machine..

Photo: Unknown February 10, 1987

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3

4

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A new "J" tower in this early 50s view

Photo & Date: Unknown

All images from North American interlockings States A to Z and Canada..

Dave Ori: During the late 1940 s and 1950s the B&O would dispatch their fleet of Train 97 from Willard west to Chicago. First Chicago 97 was known as the City Section for Robey Street . Second Chicago 97 was the Barr Yard section while Third Chicago 97 was known as the Local Section which made set-out and pick ups between Willard and Chicago.

B Tupper Upham commented on Darren's post
As preserved in Marion, Ohio.

West end:

May 8, 1959 @ 18,000; AR1VZB000030014

Hump yards:

May 8, 1959 @ 18,000; AR1VZB000030015

Ames, IA: C&NW Depot

(3D Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2022

 

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted

Nice and easy this time.  Here is a very well composed photo of the C&NW depot in Ames, Iowa.  Just a very pleasant relaxing scene.  There is no photographer or date data on the reverse of the photo.

Thank you to everyone who is helping with photo identifications.

The grain elevator in the left background caught my eye.

Raymond Storey posted
AMES IOWA..........PHOTO CREDIT BRENT HEGSTROM

Dennis DeBruler commented on Raymond's post
The depot has been preserved.
 https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0235117,-93.6178863,131a,35y,39.41t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

Russell, IA: Lost/CB&Q Depot and House Track

(Satellite)

Dave A Robb posted
Picture of Russell, Iowa looking East in 1956 CB&Q.

Jim Bowen commented on Dave's post

Dennis DeBruler commented on Dave's post
This photo was probably taken from the grain elevator. After looking at the topo map, I noticed the house and siding tracks in the photo.
1967 Russell Quad @ 24,000
Dave A Robb: Yes, my dad climbed the grain elevator. Too bad he didn't get a train too!

Judging from the shadow, the headhouse was exceptionally tall on that grain elevator. According to a satellite image, the grain elevator did not survive.

Oct 23, 1964 @ 18,000; AR1VBAL00010202

Beaver Dam WI: Milwaukee Depot and Freight House

Depot: (Satellite, 102 photos)

Freight House: (Satellite)

Larry Kraemer posted

Chicago, Milwaukee  & St Paul Depot in Beaver Dam. 

Unknown date

George Wolf: Building still stands , I believe the Beaver Dam Chamber of Commerce occupies it now , also there is a Milwaukee Road Caboose out front.

David Babington: Plus there is Milwaukee road freight house in beaver dam too now home to a real estate office

Thomas Becher: Wasn't this depot on the balloon track?

The street side of the depot has a more elaborate roofline.

Street View, Sep 2023

Google Maps labels this building as RE/MAX. Perhaps it is dual usage. I would not recognize this as a freight house. But it is on an angle with respect to the street grid because the tracks used to pass through here.

Street View, Aug 2019

This is the track side of the depot. I included the caboose on the right.

Street View, Sep 2023

The location of the freight house, as well as the depot, are marked on this map.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Thomas' comment
 It appears that it was the freight house that was on the balloon track,
 https://maps.app.goo.gl/P7xUHjCzvAkGLpkQ7.
The depot was on the track down to the loop.
1957 Beaver Dam Quad @ 62,500

This Milwaukee remnant is evidently now operated by Wisconsin & Southern (WSOR). I could not find this scene on a satellite map, so I used the 2005 SPV Map to confirm that WSOR serves Beaver Dam.

Joe S, Nov 2023