Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Ohlman, IL: Lost/Big Four & C&EI Union Station

(Satellite)

Andy Zukowski posted
Union Railroad Train Station Depot at Ohlman, Illinois. 1908
Bill Edrington: Owned by the Big Four; C&EI had trackage rights from Pana to Granite City and its passenger trains made conditional stops at Ohlman at that time.
Dennis DeBruler: Bill Edrington Thanks, I wondered why it was a union station.
Bill Edrington: Dennis DeBruler - Technically I guess it was, but I suspect that if a stranger had asked somebody in Ohlman where "Union Station" was, they probably would have said "St. Louis."
Richard Fiedler shared
Keith Cearlock: Can you share please?
Dennis DeBruler: Keith Cearlock Private groups can't share. But if you click the photo you get to Andy's post, and that post can be shared.
Steven Hooker shared
Colin Harding: According to my 1940 Official Guide on the C&EI and Nickel Plate.
Dennis DeBruler: Colin Harding If you click the photo, you can access the comment by Bill Edrington. He and some maps indicate the tracks were owned by Big Four and C&EI shared the tracks and station. I wonder how the Nickel Plate was involved.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post
I'm glad I saw Depot Street because I had originally guessed a rectangle on the town side of the tracks. But when I looked again on this 1939 aerial, I could clearly see the platform of the depot. And Andy's photo shows there were no buildings behind the depot. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9j1JZEhJi1GUSVnR6

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