Neoga, IL: Junction Tower: NKP vs. IC, Grain Elevator and IC Depot

Mitch Mitchell -> Grain Elevators of North America

Mitch's comment: "Neoga Ill. Grain Elevator." It looks more like farmer silos than a grain elevator. But a steam engine on the abandoned Cloverleaf of NKP and the top of a junction tower was worth saving. The Illinois Central tracks still exist as CN tracks. The route to the east is now operated by the Eastern Illinois Railroad (EIRC).

Google Map's picture for the town includes a grain elevator in the background. Looking at a satellite image, a segment of the Cloverleaf still exists to just beyond Metcalf. Looking at a 1939 aerial photo, they kept the connector and removed the diamond in Neoga. The grain elevator is in the same general location, but rebuilt and, of course, larger.

Satellite

John P. Kohlberg posted
Neoga, IL in April of 1956. Mike Haper Photos.

John P. Kohlberg posted
Neoga, IL in April of 1956. Mike Haper Photos.

Update:

Jacob Hortenstine posted
Neoga Illinois Illinois Central Toledo St Louis and Western crossing later Illinois Central Nickel Plate Road crossing section men of both roads.

Illinois Central Railroad Scrapbook posted
IC 4-8-2 2548 highballs past the depot at Neoga, IL, in the summer of 1954 with a northbound banana train. Cliff Downey coll.
Paul Jevert shared
I.C. #2548 at Neoga, Ill. (1954)

Andy Zukowski posted
Illinois Central Railroad Depot in Neoga, Illinois. 1977