Dwight, IL: Old Texaco Gas Station and 1891 UP/GM&O/Alton Depot and Roundhouse

Old Depot: (Satellite)

New Depot: (Satellite)

Gas Station: (Satellite, talk about the old and new, the parking lot has an EV charging station.)

I don't understand why the high-speed rail upgrade needed a new depot. I'm glad the building lives on as a home for the local history museum.

Bill Molony posted
A southbound Chicago & Alton Railroad passenger train arriving at the depot in Dwight, Illinois.
The Dwight depot was constructed in 1891; while the building no longer serves as a train station, it still exists on its original site and houses the local history museum.

When I accessed this town later for another depot photo, Google Map displayed a photo of this station. More on this station after the depot stuff.

Street View

Bill Molony posted
The Chicago & Alton depot at Dwight - circa 1915.

Bill Molony posted
The Dwight, Illinois depot as it looked in 1975.

Steven J. Brown posted
Amtrak Texas Eagle #22 at Dwight, Illinois - October 19, 2003.
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Brian Falasz posted six photos with the comment: "Been by Dwight too many times to count. Always on a mission of some sort either driving by north or south. Tonight was a great night to stop and take a few pictures of the historic Chicago and Alton depot. The stories these walls could tell…if they could talk!!!"

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John Smith posted
Dwight IL Depots and Roundhouse for Chicago Alton

Richard Fiedler commented on John's posting

Will Hazen commented on John's posting
Former Depot

Will Hazen commented on John's posting
Present Depot

Nick Hart posted
After working industries further north, UP LSF54 is highballing it south back to Bloomington Yard. In the process it, it passes by the classic, Chicago & Alton depot in Dwight. Located just over 70 miles south of Chicago, the depot was built in 1891 and serviced passengers from that point until 1971, and again from 1986 until 2016. When Amtrak's new station opened a few blocks away in 2016, this depot became a museum and community center. The two usual GP60's have the short local well under control, with the classic Southern Pacific painted #1066 leading. 03-30-22

Chuck Edmonson posted three photos with the comment:

Built back in 1891 for the Chicago & Alton Railroad this rustic looking depot designed in a Romanesque style and built primarily out of Joliet limestone in Dwight (Livingston Co.) is straddled by the towns' two main downtown streets.

 Now a museum and local cultural center, it was awarded NRHP status in 1982.

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Joseph Tuch Santucci posted
Keith Meacham: Well! It's Dwight there!

This is the "signature photo" that Google Maps chooses for this town.

B Madden, Sep 2021

Obviously, it is an old station because of the pumps. 

Lee Lundberg, Jan 2020

But it is modern in that it was built on the outskirts of town to be near the US-66 bypass. Of course, I-55 now bypasses this bypass.

Oliver Richter, Jul 2015

I saw an Oct 2018 photo of someone pumping gas. Since these pumps are older than the ones used during my childhood (1960s), I knew the mechanical pumps did not have a digit for dollars/gallon. So do they now pretend that the tenths-of-a-penny digit is pennies, the penny digit is dimes and the dimes digit is dollars? Back when gas was 16-cents/gal, the 9/10ths of a penny game made some sense. Now that gas is back over $4 a gallon, subtracting 0.1 cent so that the advertised price looks a penny cheaper has become rather silly. Can you imagine that a fill up would cost less than 10 dollars?

I wonder what brand of gas they pump. Texaco nor Chevron is not generally available in this area.

Zoomed in on a photo by Saurabh Upadhyay, Jun 2021

Daniel Bovino posted
Get your kicks on Route 66 ~ Dwight Il. ~ Filler up with super chief and check the oil ~ Photo by Dan Bovino ~
They haven't sold gasoline for about 8 years [as of 2014]. The cost of upgrading the tanks was to much. It's a museum now (road side attraction).
Kathleen Van Eck Adamson: "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star!"
Paul Jevert shared with the comment: "Texaco 2 pumper at Dwight."

Chuck Edmonson posted four photos with the comment: "From Dwight, Il. Along the old Mother Road, Rt. 66. Anybody needs smokes, they got Chesterfields.  'You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco star'."

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Joseph Tuch Santucci posted six photos with the comment: "Oddly enough, the only fuel you can obtain here is juice from the EV charging station."

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7 of 33 photos posted by Gary Taylor.

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