Waverly, IL: CB&Q and Big Four/CP&StL Depots

CB&Q Depot: (Satellite, the land has been reused)

Big Four Depot: (Satellite, northwest quadrant of the crossing of the CB&Q and Big Four tracks.)

CP&CtL = Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis

The Big Four route that went north/south through town has been abandoned. Harker Street has been extended south on the old RoW of the Big Four.

Andy Zukowski posted
Burlington Depot in Waverly, Illinois. (Circa 1910)
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Andy Zukowski posted
CB&Q Railroad Depot in Waverly, Illinois. 1969
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Larry Candilas commented on Andy's post
MP 29.2 Beardstown Division; Concord & Centralia Sub - a picture from a few years earlier (1910).

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Train Depot in Waverly, Illinois. 1908
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A different exposure.

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Train Depot in Waverly, Illinois. 1908

Randy Kesinger: East side of my property is the old right of way, still plow up spikes and other stuff

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William Lloyd: Stop for orders. [Is he referring to the horizontal or vertical semaphore? I think each semaphore was for one of the directions of train travel.]

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The grain elevator that survived is the one that was along the Big Four tracks.

Satellite