Preemption, IL: Lost/Rock Island Southern Depot

(Satellite, the farmers have done a good job of erasing the old RoW.)

Andy Zukowski posted
Railroad Depot in Preemption, Illinois. 1915
Richard Fiedler shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post
Fortunately, an older topo map was available because this Rock Island route was gone by 1953. A 1944 map shows that the routes to the east and south were gone. 1912/12 Milan Quad @ 62,500
Update: this was probably a Rock Island Southern route that was shared by Rock Island.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Lois Bopp Retherford commented on Andy's post
Times Record, Aledo IL 9-24-1952