Miner, IL: Lost/GM&O/Alton/C&A Depot, Junction Tower: C&A vs. Pennsy and Grain Elevators

If you are here because of "Bellevue, OH: NS/NKP Moorman Yard," then you need to go there.

Depot: (Satellite, it was north of the tracks and halfway between Main and Minier Avenues.)

Tower: (Satellite, judging from the photo below, it was in the northeast quadrant.)

Both railroads are gone. Today's Pennsylvania Avenue was built on the former Pennsy RoW. The C&A ran through town halfway between Park and Central Streets.

The interlocking tower in the background would have controlled the junction with the Pennsy, so we are looking West.

Brian Falasz posted

The north/south route was the Pennsy.

1951/51 Minier Quad @ 62,500

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The topo map makes sense. The aerial photo does not. Zooming in, I can't find the junction tower. The near grain elevator in the photo would be the long shadow on the south side of tracks with five boxcars on the siding. And the platform we see in the photo is visible on the north side of the tracks. But the building for the depot looks very different.

Digitally Zoomed

The town has a big grain elevator fertilizer supply business.

Street View, Jul 2023

Zachary Newman posted
H-6b #612 at Bellevue