Cisco, IL: Illinois Central Depot

(Satellite)

Carlson's Train Camera posted
Here is the other side of the Cisco, IL depot that Facebook wouldn't let me post yesterday. Obviously this is the track side while the shot I posted yesterday was of the "blind" side.
[I looked for, but could not find, the other post.]

Glenn Lawson posted three photos with the comment: "Cisco, Illinois 11/26/24. Depot well maintained."
Glenn Lawson posted again with the same photos and comment.

Craig Cloud: Line still see use?

Ryan Tate: Craig Cloud as grain storage there now it does. CN uses the same line in Decatur to switch industries.

Richard Fiedler shared

Glenn Lawson posted again with the same photos and comment.

Jon Roma: Former IC line between Champaign and Decatur.

The former Wabash is still a very active main line operated by NS, a few miles farther south.

Erik Coleman: They just remodeled it for their sesquicentennial celebration a couple months back. Had an open house with some historians, memorabilia and people dressed in 19th century attire.

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Larry Candilas commented on Glenn's second post
MP 14.0 of the IC RR Decatur District. A real booming town it looks back around 1940.

Karl Ziemer: Nope. That was an old Illinos Terminal line that ran from Decatur to Champaign and then to Danville

Dennis DeBruler commented on Larry's comment
Your photo disagrees with a Google Maps satelite image. This is the 1940 aerial photo that I found. https://maps.app.goo.gl/nAExo5biG2gooruv6

The grain elevator has grown in this town.

Street View, Sep 2015

There is another large grain elevator on the other side of Main Street

Street View, Sep 2015

Myersdale, PA: Museum/Western Maryland Depot

(Satellite)

Retro Icons posted
The Western Maryland Railroad station in Myersdale, Pennsylvania, stands as a relic of railroad history, its appearance from the early 1900s contrasted with its preserved state in 2021.  This enduring structure offers a glimpse into the vital role railroads played in shaping the region's development and connecting communities.  The station's preservation ensures that this piece of transportation history remains accessible for future generations, offering a tangible connection to a bygone era.

Gillespie, IL: Lost/Big Four Depot

(Satellite, not only is the depot lost, but so is the railroad)

Bill Edrington posted
Class C-63a 4-4-0 #7042 leads a westbound “accommodation” train at Gillespie, Illinois, probably about 1910, in this uncredited photo from the collection of the BenGil Post.  After 1904 all Big Four express trains to and from St. Louis used the new Short Line cutoff between Hillsboro and Lenox via Livingston, leaving local trains like this one as the only passenger service on the Old Line via Litchfield, Gillespie, Bunker Hill and East Alton

The interurban that went through town was the Illinois Traction, and the railroad that was east of town by the coal washer was the C&NW.

1915/49 Gillespie Quad @ 62,500

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP
Dennis DeBruler commented on Bill's post
Since the depot was on the north side of the tracks, my guess is that it was the rectangle in the northeast quadrant of the tracks and Macoupin Street in this 1939 aerial photo, https://maps.app.goo.gl/fdpxGYBxkTmxDnry5.

Bill Edrington: Dennis DeBruler - Correct.

It appears that there was a grain elevator south of the tracks about 1.5 blocks east of Macoupin. That land is now used by the Illinois Valley Rehab Center. I could not find a newer grain elevator in this area.

Lansdale, PA: 1868+1903 Reading Depots

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2019

Lansdale Historical Society posted two photos with the comment:

BACK THEN by DICK SHEARER

  By 1900, Lansdale’s position as one of the transportation hubs of Southeastern Pennsylvania was clearly established and work was already under way to replace its 1868 wooden passenger and freight station with the new depot we have today.

   To make room for the new building, the old station was propped up on rollers and moved closer to Main Street so it could still be used while construction was under way. The changeover from old to new took place over a weekend, and after an appropriate ceremony and open house the old depot was quickly dismantled and hauled away.

   Legend has it that some people who took the train out of town for the weekend didn’t recognize the change in time when they returned and wound up in Hatfield before they knew it.

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White Heath, IL: Dilapidated/IC Depot

(Satellite)

Note the angle of the chimney.

Street View, Sep 2024

Hoah Haggerty posted five photos with the comment:

Maybe semi-abandoned?

The Illinois Central at White Heath, IL still stands on June 8, 2024. While the tracks are now owned by the Monticello Railway Museum mainly for storage, the depot is privately owned and will probably see the end in a few years. The wood structure also bears the names of Chicago and Havana, along with their distances, but it can't be read easily now.

Richard Fiedler shared

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Etna Green, IN: 1914 Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite, 59 photos)

Street View, Jun 2023

Street View, Jun 2023

Street View, Jun 2023

A feed truck confirms that this is a feed mill. I've noticed that wood grain elevators that survive in the Midwest tend to be feed or flour mills.

Street View, Jun 2023

Photo, Feb 2023

I noticed the many guns in the above photo. Firearms are an important part of their business.

Street View, Jun 2023

Back in 2020, their feed truck looked pretty good.

Photo, Jul 2020

Do they have more than one old feed truck, or do they repaint it a lot? Note the Purina checkerboard logo on this one.

EtnaElevator

Tyler Guthrie posted four photos with the comment: "CF&E FWCH with a matched pair of repainted CW40-8’s in the first snow of the season. 11/21/24"

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Etna Green

Ron Wesolowski: Looks like the gate arm is up.

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Near Plymouth

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EB distant approach to Plymouth
[Note the Pennsy position light signal. A comment indicated that these approach signals always display just the diagonal line. In fact, looking closer, there are no bulbs in the other positions.]

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EB distant approach to Hanna

Springfield, IL: IC and C&IM Roundhouses

IC: (Satellite)

C&IM: (Satellite)

C&IM = Chicago & Illinois Midland

Springfield Rewind posted
Train Engine House with 6 stalls - Feb 13, 1903.

William Emerson: Illinois Central 6 stall roundhouse located at approximately 15th and Madison. The C&IM roundhouse was a 10-stall roundhouse.

Charles Call: It's hard to believe that this was turned manually after releasing brake mechanisms.

Dustin Newton shared

Illinois Central

Dennis DeBruler commented on Dustin's share
That area of Springfield has changed a lot since this 1939 aerial photo was taken. The IC roundhouse is in the lower-left corner of the photo. The C&IM roundhouse is in the center about a block and a half down from the top of the photo.
IC: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nMFGjxqaWvEHYvXs7
C&IM: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xMwkm5ukafdv9atH9

1950/50 Springfield West and East Quads @ 24,000

Prophetstown, IL: Lost/CB&Q Depot

(Satellite, my guess based on aerial photos.)

Andy Zukowski posted
C.B.& Q. Railroad Depot in Prophetstown, Illinois. 1914. Photo taken by C.R. Childs
Richard Fiedler shared

It is pretty easy to see on a satellite map where the tracks came through town.

1936/36 Prophetstown Quad @ 62,500

Not only do the tracks still exist in 1982, but the rectangle just east of Bishop Road that is between the tracks was probably the depot.

1982/83 Prophetstown Quad @ 24,000

I'm trying to decide if the grain elevator that we see in the left background of the photo still exists in 1939. 

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Since Illinois state has added additional aerial photos, I got a couple more because I don't have a lot of confidence in my guess as to the location of the depot.

1958 Aerial Photo

1970 Aerial Photo

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Lancaster, PA: 1929Amtrak/Pennsy Depot

(Satellite, 432 photos)

It looks like it is now also a bus transfer station.

Street View, Jul 2024

Eastern Rails Photography posted
Opened in 1929 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Lancaster station continues to serve Amtrak as a key stop along the Keystone corridor.  It sees twenty-six arrivals by the Keystone Service on weekdays and The Pennsylvanian arrives once daily from both NYC and Pittsburgh. The station's beautiful interior was restored in the mid 2000s. 11/1/24
James Fennell shared

Wally Price added six photos with the comment:

Lancaster Amtrak station, also the PA Railroad known as. It also serves 5 of the  Red Rose Transit routes 3, 6, 10, 11, and 19. The eastbound track and station is closed off due to work, so the eastbound Amtrak trains are using the westbound side. The inside is 30th Street Jr. and the clocks give it a twist.

Opened in 1929.

Gary Gianotti: Very nice station! Is the renovations complete at this station. The last time I took a train here they were working on it!!

John L Garcia shared

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It is nice to see a station that still has platform canopies.

Brian Christ, Jun 2021

It appears that Reading used to have a branch that terminated in this town.

1956/68 Lancaster Quad @ 24,000