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| Lost Illinois Manufacturing posted, web resolution Still named Whitney Metal Tool Company even though Roper Industries had bought them in 1961, this ad proclaims the company moved on March 25, 1968 to their present location, the 125,000 square foot factory on Huffman where they remain today. Rockford Mail, June 3, 1968. Andrew Nix Roofing outfit down the street has a $100000 sheet metal brake made by Whitney. |
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| Raymond Storey posted THE WABASH MANSFIELD ILL...1959 |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Wabash P&E Depot in Mansfield, Illinois. April 28, 1977 Mike Roegner: Last run of P&E Corn Belt Special was October 1957. Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Ricard Fiedler commented on Andy's post At one time the depot was “L” shaped with an identical end on the P&E to service their trains but that end apparently was torn down in the late 50’s when the P&E dropped their Pekin to Indianapolis train leaving only the Wabash portion. A true Union station. The tower disappeared in the early 60’s. The N&W signal maintainer used the Wabash portion to around 1980 when the remaining building was demolished. |
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| 1 CEIRHS posted This is what Villa Grove looked like in 1945. Raymond Barr: So.. were the shops located at Danville proper? CEIRHS: In Villa Grove there was a "wye" track behind the roundhouse that extended from the west to the south parallel to Sycamore Street south of the yard area. There was a "through track" between the buildings that allowed access to the roundhouse from the west end of the yard or from the wye track. The roundhouse was a 25-stall roundhouse and the turntable was 90 feet, which replaced a 70-foot TT that was moved to Pana in 1914 In reference to the other question, the main shop was Danville with Oaklawn started in 1903 under Frisco ownership to replace the former CD&V facility near Danville Junction. By 1909 the machine shop (erection bays), boiler shop, blacksmith shop, coaling station, transfertable and roundhouse were completed. All freight and passenger car work was still done at Danville Junction. |
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Jon's post
The part that was torn down had longer stalls.
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| Bob Kalal commented on Jon's post 1939 |
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| Bob Kalal commented on Jon's post |
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| Andy Zukowski posted C&EI Railroad Roundhouse At Villa Grove, Illinois. 1903 |
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| Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society posted Villa Grove, Illinois roundhouse many years ago. I like the double coal tower with the overhead conveyer. John M. Shriver: The old depot |
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| John M. Shriver posted Trackside view of Villa Grove IL CEI depot [According to the comments this is another depot that the railroad tore down in the middle of the night. Probably in 1977.] David Forbes shared |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Chicago & Eastern Railroad Depot located in Villa Grove. 1908 Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Birdseye View of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Train yards at Villa Grove, Illinois which is located in Douglas County. 1909 |
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| Jim Arvites posted View looking east of the Burlington Depot on right and the old Omaha Union Station on left with an Omaha streetcar crossing over the CB&Q and Union Pacific tracks at Omaha, Nebraska in August 1911. (Durham Museum) |
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| Beatrice Area Railroad Enthusiasts posted Union Pacific Station Omaha, NE |
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| Raymond Storey posted OMAHA NEB Mike Bartels: Old one demolished to make way for the 1931 building. |
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The station originally boasted thirteen sets of tracks located to the south of the building and served the Union Pacific, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Milwaukee, Wabash, Great Western, Illinois Central and North Western Railroads. Combining its efforts with the Burlington Depot made Omaha the fourth largest railroad center in the United States.
The last passenger train departed Union Station in 1971 and the station closed its doors.
There was, for a time, talk of demolishing the building. Wiser counsel prevailed, however, and in 1973, Union Pacific Corporation donated Union Station to the City of Omaha. In 1975, a group of dedicated volunteers fought to save Union Station and made it the home of The Western Heritage Museum. In 1995, Chuck and Margre Durham led the charge for a major renovation of the structure that restored the current Suzanne and Walter Scott Great Hall to its original grandeur. In addition, mechanical systems, to include installation of air conditioning, were completely replaced, a new parking deck erected, and the station’s original Track #1 was covered over to allow for static display of Union Pacific rail cars.
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| 3D Satellite [This image was caught during conversion. Note the hole in the roof where the chimney used to be.] |
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On August 25, 1922, the first passenger car was out-shopped from Canadian National's new Leaside car shops. Mountain Observation car No. 15100 was rebuilt from ex-Canadian Government Railways sleeping car "Oakfield" and was one of ten converted by the CNR between 1922 and 1929. Construction on the Leaside shops was begun in 1917 by the Canadian Northern Railway to replace their Rosedale shops and yard located near the Don Valley Brick Works. The insolvency of the CNoR and its takeover by CN delayed completion of the facility until 1921. In the years following consolidation with the Grand Trunk in 1923, Canadian National closed passenger car operations at Leaside.Posting by Derek Boles, TRHA Historian.
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| 3 Toronto Railway Historical Association A good view of the 80’ x 372’ transfer table and 12-track car shop. The table served both the locomotive and car shops. Behind the car shop was a 140-car coach yard. Only one other railway transfer table was known to exist in Toronto, at Canadian Pacific’s West Toronto shops. |
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| 1 Toronto Railway Historical AssociationThe new car was displayed at the Canadian National Exhibition as part of an eight-car 'all steel' trainset prior to being sent out west for use through the Rocky Mountains. The car was later named "Mount Edith Cavell" and was scrapped in 1947. Only one of these cars, "Mount Resplendent," remains and has been preserved at Heritage Park in Calgary. |
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| 2 Toronto Railway Historical AssociationWhat was originally supposed to be the Canadian Northern Eastern Lines locomotive shops (now a Longo’s grocery store) is on the left behind the stores building. The car shop is located east of the transfer table on the right. The elevated track in the foreground brought coal hoppers into the boiler house, just glimpsed at left. |
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| 4 Toronto Railway Historical Association Looking towards the car shop from the east end of the coach yard. |
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