Utica, IL: Rock Island Depot, Grain Elevator and Museum/Clark Warehouse

Depot: (Satellite, east of Mill Street and south of the tracks. Back then, Mill Street was the main crossing.)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Museum: (Satellite)

 

Andy Zukowski posted
Rock Island Railroad Station, Utica, Illinois 1912
Andy Hughes: Looking at that pole on far left with some kind of shroud on it(?)
Harold J. Krewer: Andy Hughes, train order signal. Placed opposite the depot to improve sight lines on the curve, which extended all the way through town. The "shroud" are the two semaphore blades (one east, one west) hanging straight down, which in 1912 meant "Clear, no orders to pick up."
[Some comments indicate that this station, and several other buildings, were destroyed by a tonado on Apr 20, 2004.]

 

Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post
The crossing in the foreground was Mill Street. The depot was just east of Mill Street and south of the tracks. https://maps.app.goo.gl/7JUvbqVgRwMcuiF17
Harold J. Krewer: In these 1939 aerial photos, the abandoned CO&P interurban right-of-way is still plainly visible south of the I&M Canal.

Note that the elevator never moved from it original I&M Canal location to the nearby Rock Island. I would have thought that when they made the investment to build the concrete silos to replace a wooden structure, they would have built the concrete silos at a location close to the RI because the canal would have been obsolete by then.

Thomas Robbins posted
Elevator in Utica, Illinois last May. The old I&M Canal is located thirty yards or so to the north
Eric Allen: That's a goodly-sized bin! And the dryer (attached to the concrete silos) is also really cool!
Thomas Robbins: Here's the dryer in action toward the end of the season a few years ago, Eric. http://www.pbase.com/image/105404451/original

The Rock Island had built an industrial spur that went south of the I&M Canal to the grain elevator and sand quarry.

1966 La Salle Quad @ 62,500

In fact, the bridge still exists.

Satellite

Illinois and Michigan Canal Photo Tour posted
The former Clark Warehouse, now the LaSalle County Historical Society Museum, located on the bank of the canal at Utica.
Paul Petraitis shared

Christopher N. Kaufmann: A great museum! The curators are extremely helpful and I’ve spent many hours there researching maps and archives. Their exhibits have much history. The famous split rock for the canal is just two miles west, a real 19th century blacksmith shop is across the street and across the canal is an affiliated museum with the history of the radium girls. A great town to visit.

I was able to capture both the Clark Warehouse and the grain elevator.

Street View, Aug 2019