Charolette, IL: and Cullom, IL: Alliance Gran Elevators (BLOL Served)

Charolette

(Satellite)

This Bloomer route was originally the IC branch from Otto to the original mainline near Bloomington. Judging from a satellite image, there is an old wood elevator still standing north of the country road, which would be in the far background in this photo. Unfortunately, there is no street view here.

Adam Elias posted
BLOL 7591 & 7504 loading up in Charolette, IL back in August 11, 2017.
Flickr Link: https://flic.kr/p/2ja5snN

Adam Elias Flickr
Load Em Up!
BLOL 7591 (ex NP GP9) & BLOL 7504 (original IC GP9, now a GP10) loading grain cars for the CN up in Charolette, IL. This was back in 2017 when it seemed to be easier to catch matching set of Bloomer power & catch bigger trains. Still to this day, I love shooting these guys.

Junior Hill posted
Bloomer Line RR runs past the Alliance Grain Company's elevator at Charlotte, IL, on their old Wabash RR main. Alliance Grain Co is the Bloomer Line's parent company. 1/13/2011

Cullom

(Satellite-old, Satellite-new)

Ted Fisk posted
Bloomer Line train loading grain at Cullom Illinois today June 8
Ted FiskAuthor Does Bloomer interchange the train with the NS or where does it go? I have never seen the Bloomer before and know very little about it.
Randy Funk Ted Fisk they also interchange with CN.
Ean Kahn-Treras Ted Fisk the overwhelming business on the Bloomer is empty grain from NS. BLOL loads it up and returns back to Gibson City for NS.

Ted FiskAuthor Ean Kahn-Treras That is what I thought, since the hoppers were NS. It was interesting to see this little railroad.

I would have missed the old elevator with the concrete-stave bins if I hadn't seen the photos for the town in Google Map.

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