Mansfield, IL: NS/Big4/P&E vs. NS/Wabash, 4-Silo Grain Elevator and Union Depot

Tower: (Satellite, southwest quadrant.)

4-Silo: (Satellite, the town also has a typical grain elevator.)

Depot: (Satellite, northeast quadrant. They must have built a new US-150 overpass after the depot was torn down.)

P&E = Peoria & Eastern Railway

Raymond Storey posted
THE WABASH MANSFIELD ILL...1959

NS still operates the east P&E spoke to Champaign, the south Wabash spoke to the Wabash mainline at Bement, and the north Wabash spoke to the NKP/LEW route at Gibson City. NS also still operates the LEW route west of Gibson City through Bloomington to East Peoria.

While studying the satellite image, I noticed a skinny, square building along the connector in the southeast quadrant. It is a grain elevator with a rather different design. Did the flat walls between the silos create additional (small) bins?

Street View

Richard Fiedler posted six photos with the comment: "Mansfield Illinois. Wabash-P&E facilities."

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Union Depot

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.

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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.