Depot: (
Satellite)
East Roundhouse: (
Satellite, based on the aerial photo below.)
West Roundhouse: (
Satellite, I don't see any traces of it.)
According to
a bridge posting, the Golden State Route used to serve this depot. Eldon, IA, used to have two Rock Island routes through it. Now it has none. The northwest/southeast branch route used to pass on the west side of the depot.
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Fans of Rock Island Lines posted
Rodney G. Skinner: The photo is of the big roundhouse west of town, I was there many years ago there still is part of the foundation |
This was the "East Roundhouse."
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| Jason Gormley commented on the above post |
This shows at least the turntable of the West Roundhouse. It looks like a small slice of the roundhouse may be left.
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| 1965/66 Eldon Quad @ 24,000 |
I included the meanders of the river and the little creek to help correlate this with the topo map and today's satellite.
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