Beardstown, IL: CB&Q's Depot and Roundhouse

Depot: (Satellite)
Roundhouse: (Satellite)

The last passenger train to Beardstown on the B&O was March 24, 1951. But passenger service continued with a Brill motocar. [MayberryTownship]

MayberryTownship, this page has additional depot photos including a newer depot

Beardstown CB&Q Depot
Shared with B&O

Justin Corless Facebook

Cass County

Estimated GPS Coordinates, Click For Map: 40.018398,-90.426965

MayberryTownship

1919 Beardstown CB & Q
Passenger Depot Map

Sanborn™ fire insurance map
provided courtesy of the Map Library
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tim Scherrer posted
Philip A. Douglas: The one after this was just torn down in Beardstown.

Jul 2023 Update:

Chris P. Rice posted
looks like monday the 31st [2023] is the scheduled day to crush it and load it up
Jeremy Bugg shared

 According to comments on the above post and share, the building has been used by the MoW department and they would rather use the land to expand their parking for MoW trucks.

Satellite

Nick Menke posted three pictures of the CB&Q roundhouse with the comment:

Thanks for the add guys. Here's the old Q roundhouse in Beardstown IL. Someone has restored it and made it a wedding reception/banquet hall. You can still smell the grease inside.

(Satellite, note that Google Map has 20 photos, many of them are interior shots.)

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Whenever I see what a wedding can cost, I'm always glad to see someone has converted the big interior of an industrial building or depot into an event space.

Update: Preserving the backshops as well as the roundhouse makes a spectacular event space.

Keli Schoonover, Jun 2019

Jan Smith posted two photos with the comment:

Old CB&Q round house in Beardstown, Illinois. 02-11-17.

I have no idea the history behind this discovered on Google earth and took a trip. It's most likely private property so didnt approach in case. It didnt look like anyone but one truck was there so no idea on the status of this place.

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Andy Zukowski posted
A 1976 photograph of the CB&Q Roundhouse and Water Tank in Beardstown, Illinois, taken by Don Morice.
Thomas Whitt shared

 

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Yards at Beardstown, Illinois. 1911
Thomas Whitt shared

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Larry Senalik posted

Lots of railroad facilities in this river town. No information on the picture as to date or place

#sangamonvalleycollection
Ken Morrison It's almost certainly Beardstown, Il.-at the confluence of the Illinois and Sangamon Rivers; CB&Q bridge, CB&Q/B&O tracks/facilities.
Steve Drassler Looks like there were two locomotive servicing facilities, a full roundhouse and a smaller roundhouse next to it. Quite a shop complex, too. Didn't realize all that existed there years ago.
Rick F Up till the 1930s, Beardstown was a major yard and service point on the CB&Q till they moved it to Galesburg. I read at one time 1000 people worked for the railroad here. This is also the western most terminal for the B&O located on the right side of the yard complex just above the roundhouses in the picture.
Jim Duncan The Illinois River's lookin' angry!
Ken Morrison Jim Duncan from Havana down to Beardstown, the terrain is low and slow, and you've got the Sangamon very tentatively entering, in the picture and for several miles north...

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