(Satellite image below)
Two views of the NKP (Clover Leaf) depot.
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| Roger G. Perkins comment on Jacob's posting |
Bill Edrington commented that he remembered the B&O depot, but not the Clover Leaf depot. Looking at the 1928 RR Atlas, this is another town on the north/south B&O branch that ran from
Beardstown to
Shawneetown. I still have not found the name of the railroad that originally built this route. In 1914 this route was named the "Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern." Jon Roma has
a picture of the B&O depot.
This is another town that used to have two railroads, but it now has none. I could not find a Sanborn Map for this town. It sits on the edge of two aerial photos.
They did not want to waste valuable space "downtown" for a connector between the railroads, so it appears they built one north and west of the town.
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Closeup of the downtown area with the the NKP depot in green and the B&O depot in yellow.
[Update: the green rectangle is wrong. In the photo below left, the curve in the track and the connector appearing behind the depot indicates the NKP depot was the building on the west side in the photo.] |
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Satellite plus Paint
Blue is NKP, Yellow is B&O, and Orange is the connector |
More views of the Clover Leaf depot The view with the train order signals is in the 1950s.
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Jacob Hortestine posted
1981 view Cowden Illinois B&O depot |
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Jacob Hortenstine posted
Here is a better photo. Rodger G Perkins did a little searching today |
Roger commented that the NKP depot has been moved to Pioneer Park. They did do some needed restoration work.
Update:
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Jacob Hortenstine posted
Train load of stock leaving Cowden Illinois headed south water tank and depot to the right.......some one with photoshop may help this photo. |
There are several comments with modifications of this picture. This is just one of them.
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| Ken Molinelli commented on the above posting |
From Shelby County Illinois historical documentation: This road was formerly known as the Springfield and Pana R. R., afterwards as the Springfield and South-eastern R. R., and on the first of April, 1875, it was sold to the 0hio & Mississippi R. R. Company. It was built under a charter obtained in 1865, and completed in 1870. The first construction train to run from Pana to Springfield was on the 28th of October, 1869. The first through train from Beardstown to Shawneetown, was run on the 28th of March, 1872.
ReplyDelete1895 map of Cowden: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/471808/Cowden/Shelby+County+1895/Illinois/
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