Romeoville, IL: Wood Grain Elevators and Lost/Santa Fe Depot

Elevators: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite, a guess based on the aerial photo)

Jerry Jackson posted two photos with the comment:

Today this spot is just about right underneath an ugly concrete highway bridge. CP Romeo with it's great old swing bridge and bridge approach; its Seed and grain silos that stood until the mid-90's I believe. A really good railfanning spot, especially in 1991, as in this photo. Romeoville, IL.

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1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

You can still see the U-shaped road that crossed the tracks in a satellite image. I remember someone writing about that hairpin turn you had to make at the east end of the swing bridge.

Satellite

Update:

Bill Molony shared
Santa Fe's train #2, the eastbound "San Francisco Chief" hustles past grain elevators at Romeo, Illinois on October 16, 1966. Roger Puta photo/Marty Bernard collection.
Marty Bernard shared

Jerry Jackson commented on the above posting
1990
Jerry Jackson posted

Dennis DeBruler commented on Jerry's post
I always enjoy it when you catch that elevator. I tried getting some photos from that spot, but someone came out and told me that I could not be there because it is dangerous because of the electric barrier for the Asian Carp. Fortunately, they leave me alone if I'm south of the road crossing. This is one of the few isolated crossings in the area that is not in a quiet zone.
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This is the last of some photos posted by Jerry Jackson in the area.

Jerry Jackson posted another batch of photos with the comment: "These are from the Summer of 1990 at the old street crossing that is now East Romeo Road (135th St.) at CP Romeo, Romeoville, IL. The only thing still at this location is the track and that green metal building behind that wonderful grain operation."

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Jerry Jackson posted a similar batch of photos with the comment: "B40-8 530 westbound, screams past the wonderful, old, now gone, elevators at CP Romeo, Romeoville, IL. This is from the Fall of 1991. The elevators would be in the lower RH corner of the Google Maps image."

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[An example of tiles with steel bands and jump-form concrete construction.]

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[This view shows that they had at least two bins built with steel bands.]

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Jerry keeps finding photos of this elevator.

Jerry Jackson posted
C40-8W 842 (BNSF 842(C40-8W)  ATSF 842(C40-8W) CN 2156(C40-8W)) leads an eastbound through CP Romeo in August of 1992 Romeoville, IL.

 

Jerry Jackson commented on a post
DuPage Farmers Elevator.

Global Earth 4/1993
Note that both ComEd gantries are being used to unload a string of barges on the west edge of the canal.

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Santa Fe Depot

Geoffrey Baer's Chicago (WTTW) posted
The I&M Canal Commissioners named the town "Romeo" in 1835 thinking it would be a nice partner for a canal town downstream called Juliet.  Who says bureaucrats don’t have a sense of humor?  When Juliet changed its name to Joliet in 1845, Romeo residents adopted the name Romeoville.
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