Lockport, IL: Lost/Santa Fe Depot

(Satellite, Today it is part of a parking lot for Greif.)

Between Chicago and Joliet, the CN/GM&O and BNSF/Santa Fe routes parallel each other. Today, only the GM&O built stations remain to provide commuter service.

Bill Molony posted
The Santa Fe depot in Lockport circa 1950, before it was cut down in size.
Dennis DeBruler 9 crossbars on the code line. That ties with the most I have seen.

Bill Molony posted again
Brandon McShane It didn't change much before it was torn down in the '80s.

Dennis DeBruler shared to a Santa Fe group
I read the group description to see if it is limited to just train photos. To my pleasant surprise, you want "obscure subjects."

Stanta Fe got out of the Chicago area commuter business early because the GM&O tracks paralleled this route. Metra still runs limited commuter service on the CN+UP/GM&O tracks to Joliet. The former Sanfa Fe route between Chicago and Galesburg, IL now has no passenger trains because the Amtrak train got moved to the former CB&Q route and the depot got rebuilt in Joliet.

Harold Lee White I remember the Lockport Station I contacted the Dispatcher many times at that station in my early Conductor years 1978 through early 80's. on Work Trains.
David J Smith I used to stop there every night and get my switch list for Union Oil. On the 1117 Local.

It looks like they cut the freight handling part off. By the 1980s trucks had taken all of the LCL and express package business away from the railroads.

Bill Molony posted
The Santa Fe depot at Lockport on November 14, 1981.

Joseph Obrien The bridge in the background was relatively new at this time.

Update:

Bill Molony shared
The Santa Fe Railroad's depot in Lockport, Illinois was located on the west side of Daviess Street, between 9th Street and 10th Street.
The Santa Fe depot in Lockport was closed and boarded up by 1983, and was torn down shortly afterward.

 

Dennis DeBruler commented on Bill's share

Dennis DeBruler

A 1939 aerial

https://prairie-research.maps.arcgis.com/.../index.html...

Ken Rehor posted

Lockport, IL
ATSF
Winter 1981

Rolleicord, Kodak Plus-X

Bill Molony posted
This photograph is of the Santa Fe Railway depot in Lockport as it looked on May 30, 1976.

The bridge in the background of a couple of photos make it easy to determine the location of the depot on this map once you realize that the new bridge was built on 9th Street.

1954 Joliet Quad @ 1:24,000

Bill Molony posted
The Santa Fe depot in Lockport, Illinois - 1973.
Photographer unknown.
From the Blackhawk collection.
Michael Stanich: is the place still standing?
Bill Molony: No - it was torn down in the 1980's.
Bill Molony shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Bill's share
The land is now part of the parkling lot for Greif, which is an industry that is still railserved by BNSF.
 https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...1954
Joliet Quadrangle @ 1:24,000