Bureau Junction, IL: Rock Island Depot

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Roger Kujawa posted
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Bureau, Illinois Bureau House & RR Train Depot Station c1910 Postcard

Andy Zukowski posted
Rock Island Railroad Depot in Bureau, Illinois.  C.1910

 

Trent Briggs posted
Raymond Storey posted
BUREAU ILL

Seth Wetzel updated
Bureau Junction, Illinois depot red and yellow as can be!

Andy Zukowski posted
Rock Island Depot in Bureau, Illinois. 1979

Noah Haggerty posted

A group of railfans watch from the platform of the former Rock Island depot at Bureau Junction, IL as a set of cars gets ready to move. The Keokuk Junction's "Chief Keokuck" observation car was used for an excursion.

Seems to be an obscure excursion, but it seems that this was in or around June 1987, when the Iowa Interstate began leasing operations over the Lincoln & Southern (owned by BF Goodrich) from here down to Peoria. 

John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.

Noah Haggerty also posted

Christian Goepel posted
Bureau, Illinois, depot and Peoria Main seen this afternoon [Sep 25, 2016].
J Pete Hedgpeth This view is taken from the southwest side of the depot, looking northeast along the Peoria Main. The junction with the Silvis-BI man is just out of view at the extreme right vertical center.

It is not clear from the comments who owns the depot now. From a satellite image, there is a dormer on both sides of the building. So I guess there were bay windows on both sides to watch the mainline on the north side and the branch south along the Illinois River. Neither Google nor Bing have streetviews in this town.

 

Barriger

I believe IAIS, instead of CSX, now operates this part of the Rock. It looks like they are doing a good job of maintaining the branch line. So I assume their mainline west to Iowa is now in good shape as well.

Gary Sams posted
Bureau, Illinois CRI&P Depot and Yards
Roger Kujawa Does anyone know which way this photo was taken? What is that track on the far right? Spur or electric line? Thanks.
Harold J. Krewer Far right is an interurban line. Originally the Illinois Valley Railway, later the Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria. Part of Illinois Traction System. The portion west of DePue to Princeton was abandoned in 1929.

Gary Sams posted
Bureau, Illinois CRI&P Depot and Bureau House

Raymond Storey posted
BUREAU ILL

 

Jim Arvites posted
View of a Rock Island freight train passing the old passenger depot at Bureau Junction, Illinois in 1975. (Bill Eley Photo)
Justin West: https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4...

Jeff Vonk posted two photos with the comment: "Stopped in Bureau Junction to see if there was any power units..... no locos but took a couple of the old depot....."

Thomas Dyrek Hopefully IAIS doesn’t knock it down like DePue
Robert Weber What was once a bustling Division Point is but a mere ghost town...
William Wozniak Robert Weber at least the Iowa survives to run a couple trains a day on my end, yes not the 20 an hour back in the day.

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1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Noah Haggerty posted

In 1989, Union Pacific ran a short business train over the Iowa Interstate, led by GP40X #954. The move was part of a tactic to pressure the Chicago & North Western by showing it had alternative routing options, including a potential purchase of the IAIS. This was largely a tactical threat to shift east-west traffic away from C&NW between Chicago and Council Bluffs, which ultimately contributed to UP’s full takeover in 1995. The train is seen here passing through Bureau Junction, IL.

John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.

Trenton Dominy posted three photos of "the old rock island bureau junction depot."

Richard Fiedler shared

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