Towns and Nature: St. Anne, IL: Depot and FS Grain

Friday, February 5, 2016

St. Anne, IL: Depot and FS Grain

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St. Anne, IL, is the junction of the KBS/Big Four and UP+CSX+CP/MoPac/C&EI.

Bill Molony posted
Union Depot in St. Anne, Illinois was served by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and by the New York Central System's CCC&StL.
Postal Card photo circa 1919.
Brian Weber Just north of station st between the tracks I believe. If you look at Google maps, you can see those telegraph poles are still there.
Robert Gibson Jr. The train is on the C&EI side heading north.
Richard Mead It is combination tower and station...that's what makes it tall.

Jim Arvites posted
Postcard view of Union Station at St. Anne, Illinois circa 1910. The station was served by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Big Four (CCC&STL).

Charlie DeWeese

Working third trick in New York Central's AB relay office in Indianapolis, IN in the fall of 1962, on the sixth floor of the Big Four Building at Maryland and Meridian (later a Hampton Inn) having flunked out of Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, IN we had a message to be forwarded to STANNE and it took us half the night to realize it was St Anne. The message had come in on a teletype from another relay office, likely Q New York. I cannot recall the location of other relay offices or their designations.

Kathy Friend

Is the depot still standing ?

Rich Westerman

The depot is long gone. The trackage is UP now and a train comes through about every hour nowadays. Very busy line. KB&S (short line) also runs through the town. Both lines run close to the youth baseball fields and I got to watch my son play and train watch many times.

Justin Oates posted
KB&S at St. Anne, IL. 11/2015.

C&EI shared Eric Berg's post: "From the back of a southbound C&EI train are these 2 views of St. Anne tower and union depot (C&EI/Big 4), ca. 1935. John W. Barriger III photos."

Gary Sams posted

Bill Molony posted
This is the joint New York Central - Chicago & Eastern Illinois station at St. Anne, Illinois as it looked on December 1, 1955.
The track on the left is the NYC's and the track on the right is the C&EI's.
Although it was a joint station, there was a bay window on each side of it and separate agents to man each bay window.
William Shapotkin A number of (what we would call) "joint stations" had different agents and/or waiting rooms, baggage facilities, etc. Linden, IN (the depot still stands and is a museum) was that way. At one time, the C&EI/MC had such a facility in Chicago Heights, IL.