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| James L. Ludwig posting New life for the ex-Milwaukee Road Depot in Mendota, Illinois. |
On the Sanborn Map below, you can see that Milwaukee entered town from the south on the west side of the IC RoW. It joined the IC tracks around 3rd St. It then left the IC tracks around 8th St. and briefly followed the CB&Q until it turned north out of town.
In a comment for the Facebook posting referenced by the Union Station blog posting, James explains that Milwaukee's ownership of the track ended where it joined the IC. Since it was not part of the IC track ownership, it was not part of the Union Station ownership. So it built its own depot further south of 3rd St. along its own track to handle freight traffic.
In a comment for the Facebook posting referenced by the Union Station blog posting, James explains that Milwaukee's ownership of the track ended where it joined the IC. Since it was not part of the IC track ownership, it was not part of the Union Station ownership. So it built its own depot further south of 3rd St. along its own track to handle freight traffic.
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| 1929-1949 Sanborn Map, Sheet 1 |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Milwaukee Road Aerial view in Mendota, Illinois in 1964 Photo by Leo Muhlach. Notice the track arrangement of the Milwaukee Road just north of the depot. See the CB&Q track in the upper left hand corner. The coal cars in the Illinois Central yard at right are waiting for the IC to pick up and head back to the southern Illinois Coal mines. The Milwaukee would take loads up to the power plant in Janesville Wisconsin. The IC set out the loads in the Milw yard south of 1st street and into their yard via the interchange track. |
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its June 1968 [Unknown photographer ] photographed the Mendota IL station .This would be the Ladd IL to janesville line [photo collection Mark Llanuza ] [His square braces.] Mike Landers: Looking south ! |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Milwaukee Road 81C in Mendota, Illinois. 1976 Aaron Grace shared |
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| Justin West commented on Andy's post Justin West: 3rd St https://maps.app.goo.gl/3ias1vWnAowBUAsu8 |
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its Feb 1977 Milwaukee road F-units standing next to the Mendota IL station .Today everything is gone but the station was saved as a bank |
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its April 1977 the Mendota turn is pulling up the Milwaukee road station in Mendota IL |
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its July 1977 I'm at Mendota IL looking south at the station towards Ladd |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Milwaukee Road Depot in Mendota, Illinois. 1978 Trenton Dominy: Building is now for sale. Bill Molony shared |
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| Sam Carlson posted A few weeks ago, Mark Llanuza posted some photos of the Mendota depot. But, Mark, you posted them without a train. Why no train? If you waited til late afternoon, you may have seen a train. If you saw one, it probably would have looked like this. |
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| Sam Carlson commented on his post This was the power. |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Milwaukee Road 94A and 101A idle away the hours in front of the Mendota, Illinois, station on January 20, 1979. A recent blizzard had trapped the locomotives here for a number of days. Mendota was on the now-abandoned Milwaukee Road branch which ran south from Davis Junction to Ladd. There probably wasn't much call for ice from those two vending machines. Photo by Joe McMillan Mike Landers: Those 2 engines sat there about 2 weeks i climbed up the one facing north my buddy dad ran a fuel truck keep them full till they got to track open again ! Dennis DeBruler shared |
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| Randy Phillips Flip posted |
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its July 1977 I'm at Mendota IL on the Milwaukee Roads North -south route Ladd -Janesville line .i'm looking north at the station .I went back in 2015 to match up my older photo to what it looks somewhat today .Its bank the station was saved. |
A 34:07 video about the Milwaukee Road in Mendota and the vicinity. It also shows some of the coal mines in the area. Also, some cement plants in Oglesby.
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