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Seth Wetzel posted
How about Dows, Iowa depot for a change folks! |
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Fans of Rock Island Lines posted
Dows IA, 9/22/12. You can see the sand dome just in front of bell, missing its cap. Still making steam, someone is quick on the draw? |
As recently as 2013, the grain elevator was railserved.
But the siding has been torn up.
While I was looking for a street view that showed the big window in the waiting room, I noticed that the elevator used to have some smaller bins.
They put a lot of money into that elevator considering that they lost their rail service. Is there now a nearby ethanol plant that they can haul to?
The only RI route left is the one to the west.
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| 1954/68 Waterloo Quad @ 250,000 |
UP still owns it even though it no longer uses it.
They added three larger bins in 2005-6. And they were obviously getting rail service back then.
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| Google Earth, Aug 2006 |
They got rid of the long building by 2015. Note that they still had their own locomotive back then. It is near the bottom edge of this extract. The small bins were gone by the next view, Oct 2019.
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| Google Earth, Oct 2015 |
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