Ivesdale, IL; NS Triple Crown Train 256 passing Wood Grain Elevator and an Old Standard Gas Station

Old Elevator: (Satellite)

New Elevator: (Satellite)

Standard Gas Station: (Satellite)

NS 256 is a Triple Crown RoadRailer train, and the that service is going to quit running in just a couple of day. Thus railfans are making an effort to catch it. This one has the NKP heritage unit pulling it.

Jackson Vandeventer posted
256 bustling eastbound thru Ivesdale this afternoon, just about to head into the hole for a westbound. I grew up watching these trains, traveling to Philo for ice cream with my grandma always every other night. I took these trains for granted, not caring too much about shooting them till the past several months. The memory of Triple Crown trains will always live on! Alex Powell: Good shot! I like seeing all of these get posted and then trying to remember going by. Were you on a ladder in the back of your truck? Jackson Vandeventer: Alex Powell You’d be correct! It’s all about perspective lmao. Dennis DeBruler: I'm glad you included the wood grain elevator. Those are another piece of history that is disappearing.

The new elevator is big and, judging from all of the hoppers on the siding here and to the west, it is rail served by a Class I railroad. The old elevator is in the upper-right corner. I also saw hoppers in some of the street views.

Satellite

Street View, Aug 2023

Lots of fertilizer spreading equipment. Beyond the sprayers is a lot of chisel knife implements. 

Street View, Aug 2023

A better view of the chisel knifes and a discovery of an old gas station.

Street View , Aug 2023

Those are probably fertilizer storage tanks behind the station.

Street View, Aug 2023

Mike Osterbur posted
Old Standard station in Ivesdale, Illinois. Hillard Oil Company station.

David Serra: The preservers had to get creative with the sign (the flame at the top is not historically correct, but from a later version) and the pump globes (the correct ones would have been crowns), but they get extra points for doing what they had to do. The historically correct items would have been stolen within a week.

Jerry Figliulo: David Serra Yup. Those crowns globes are very expensive. Nice station

OldGas
$775

I remember the crowns having red paint. It turns out the color indicates the grade of gasoline that the pump delivers.

White = ethyl

Red = regular

Green = diesel

Orange = marine or avaition [only heard that]

Blue = solite [1 grade down from regular]

Gray = tractor ?

Gold = premium

Red & Gold = supreme [1950's]

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I wanted a better view of the side.

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