Thursday, October 16, 2025

Rio, IL: Lost/CB&Q Depot

(Satellite, it was in the fork of the two routes.)

Noah Haggerty posted two photos with the comment:
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand!
Instead, this is the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy depot at Rio, Illinois probably taken sometime around the early or mid-1970's. At this time, it has been abandoned and probably demolished not long after these photos. John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.
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All three "spokes" were CB&Q.
1947/47 Woodhull Quad @ 62,500

I think it is the building with the white roof in the north point of the wye.
1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Rio was just below Alpha.
1902 via Dennis DeBruler


BNSF (orange) still operates a route between Galesburg and the Quad Cities.
arcgis via Dennis DeBruler

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