Elwood, IL: 1969 Depot

Depot: (Satellite, west of the tracks and just south of Mississippi Ave.)

Grain Elevator: (Satellite)
 

Bill Molony posted

To still have train order signals standing in 1969 is rather late. I wonder if GM&O was still using train orders, or if the local maintenance men just didn't bother to take them down for several decades.

You can clearly see from the ramp to the door so that the close end was the freight/package handling side of the depot. It is a rather plain depot --- I don't see any brackets under the side eaves.

Bill Molony posted
Ed Schloz: so many pictures of trains and depots...there is a grain elevator somewhere in the background...
[The train is southbound. The car on the left would be on Mississippi Ave.]

Note the tops of the grain bins peaking over the passenger cars in the above photo. The foundations for these bins are still visible. Before they added the bins, they had expanded with what appears to be a bolted-steel silo.

Satellite

In 1939, they had just the concrete silos. (It is easy to find the concrete silos because of the long shadows and the headhouse on top.) And we can see the depot in the southwest quadrant of the crossing and the tracks.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP