Breckenridge, CO: Aban/UP/Colorado & Southern/Denver & South Park & Pacific Depot

(Satellite, it is now a parking lot.)

I've been skipping depots in Colorado, but when I saw Denver, South Park & Pacific in the description, I went for it. See Como, CO, as to why DSP&P is of interest to me.

Richard Crabtree posted three images with the comment:

Here we are at the Colorado & Southern Depot in Breckenridge, Colorado

The Denver & South Park & Pacific came to Breckenridge, Colorado in August of 1882. Over the course of several years the name of line changed from the DSP&P to the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison and finally to the Colorado & Southern. It would be the the C&S that would end service here in 1937.

Photo 1) Colorado & Southern Depot in Breckenridge, Colorado around 1910.

Photo 2) 1914 Sanborn Map of Breckenridge, Colorado L.O.C.

Photo 3) Current view ~ google maps

Terri Reid: I wondered where the acreage for the parking lots came from..

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1989 Leadville Quad @ 125,000

I knew that the DSP&P went over the mountain from Como into the Colorado River drainage basin. Now I better understand how it did that. (The Como area is drained by the Tarryall Creek, which joins the South Platte River. But that is a very circuitous route. The DSP&P used Turkey Creek to get from Denver to South Park.)

1938 Mount Lincoln and 1937 Como Quad @ 62,500

New England, ND: Old Grain Elevator Row

(Satellite)

Wesley Peters posted

Elevator Row, New England, ND, c. 1914.

At the time there were seven grain elevators in the city.

Identification- Right to Left.

Western Grian Co.- Headhouse built before 1912. An annex was built sometime before the 1930's on the NW side of the headhouse. Extant.

Columbia Elevator Co.- Built before 1912. Replaced with a new headhouse by the 1930's built by T. E. Ibberson Co. The second headhouse has a later built annex on the NW side.

E. J. Freeman Elevator- Built before 1912. Demolished/destroyed.

New England Equity Exchange- Built in 1912. Had a headhouse built on the east side of the original house by the 1930's. Demolished sometime after 2008.

Unidentified Elevator- Mansard roof. Early history unknown. Demolished/destroyed.

Unidentified Elevator- Early history unknown. Demolished destroyed before the 1930's.

Regent Grain Co.- Built in 1913. Demolished/destroyed.

Today just the former Western Grain Co. elevator is still standing from this photograph. The first Columbia Elevator Co. house was either destroyed or dismantled and replaced with a new elevated headhouse by the 1930's. The second elevator for that company is still standing today.

Photo courtesy of Worthpoint.

Randy Ahrens shared

All but two of the seven old elevators have been replaced.

Street View, Sep 2021

I included the tank as a reminder that supplying fertilizer, as well as storing grain, is important for the economy of a rural town.

Street View, Sep 2021

Five of the old elevators are gone because the facilities have been upgraded.

Street View, Sep 2021

It looks like they supply "cides" (herbicide, pesticide and insecticide) and feed supplements as well as dry, liquid and gaseous fertilizer.

Street View, Sep 2021

I wonder if this town was always at the end of a Milwaukee branch.

1953 Dickinson Quad @ 250,000

Homestead, MT: Old Grain Elevator Row

(Satellite)

Jan Normandale posted

Homestead MT: 2013 08

digital bw

Wesley Peters: The furthest house is a former Victoria brand elevator that likely dates from the 1960's. It replaced an earlier structure that was standing in 1939. the two elevators in the foreground were both standing in 1939.

Talk about being in the boondocks, no street view driver has been to this town. At least the northern elevator is being used because of the spilled grain. This railroad route used to be the Great Northern. According to a USGS map, it is now Yellowstone Valley.

Satellite

Chapin, IL: Wabash + CB&Q Union Depot and Wood Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, the land is now occupied by the fire department building.)

Grain Elevator: (Satellite)

Wabash is the east/west route, and CB&Q was the north/south route.

Andy Zukowski posted
Union Depot Chapin, Illinois. 1908
Richard Fiedler shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post
Since the CB&Q crossed the Wabash at an angle, the depot was a rectangle that was equidistant from each route. 1941 aerial photo

Larry Candilas commented on Richard's share
1950s - from the internet

In 1902, this was the only CB&Q route that went south in Illinois. In 1917, CB&Q completed their route that went to the bridge at Metropolis that they built with the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad. This St. Louis route has since been abandoned.
 https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/knx_rail/id/298

1948 Quincy Quad @ 250,000

Hopedale, IL: Lost/Chicago & Alton Depot, Two Wood Grain Elevators and a Caboose

(Satellite)

This C&A route was abandoned by the ICG.

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago and Alton Depot, Hopedale, Illinois. C1910 photo from the James Woodruff collection.

Mark Stoeckel: Located on the “Jack Line”

Bill Edrington: It was the Chicago & Alton depot in 1910.

Harlan Hannah: Does anyone know where the depot was located?

Richard Fiedler shared

Dennis DeBrule answered Harlan's question
Given that the grain elevators were on the south side of the tracks, it would have been a half-block northeast of Main Street, https://maps.app.goo.gl/HqerJGUh89MgYGWT9

Bob Kalal commented on Andy's post
Hopedale has TPW Caboose 501
[No street view driver went downtown nor along the former tracks.]

Bob Kalal commented on Andy's post
also southwest of town this great looking Chicago and Alton, Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, IC bridge

John Woodrow commented on Bob's comment
The same bridge is called Oredorff or townhall road bridge built 1889 (Edward Wayne Bridges Photo)

This treeline is the old right-of-way of the C&A. The bridge is on the right side of this treeline.

Satellite

That little creek created a noticeable canyon.

1951 Miner Quad @ 62,500

That route came up through Mason City and terminated in Bloomington, IL.

1963 Peoria Quad @ 250,000

Toledo, OH: Pennsy Railyards, Coal Tower and Baldwin Sharks

Railyard: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite, nature has done a good job of taking the land bank. It was about halfway between Andrus and Wales Roads)

Technically, this yard is not in Toledo, but it is close.

Bill Kalkman posted
H.  G. Goerke photo, Rodney Peterson collection. Pennsylvania Railroad  Baldwin "Sharknose" RF-16 (PRR class BF-16) 2012, along with a B-unit  duo, is posing for its roster pic in Toledo, OH on 3-18-62.

Duane Karam commented on Bill's post
I live just down the road from here and you would never know there was a yard there, it is all grown over with large trees today. The sand tower was still there about 10-15 years ago but is now gone. The only thing remaining today that lets anyone know it was the PRR at one time is the overpass on the east end over Broadway! The red dot is approximately where the photographer was standing to take this picture of the Baldwins.

Duane Karam commented on his comment

Dennis DeBruler: Duane Karam https://maps.app.goo.gl/eYjRmek4yvy1y6xJ8

1950 Rockford Quad @ 24,000

May 1, 1963 @ 24,000; AR1VARA00010082

Hastings, MN: CP Yard Office/Milwaukee Depot

(Satellite, 29 photos)

Street View, May 2023

Street View, May 2023

The town is worthy of a stop for the holiday train.

william braun, Dec 2022, cropped

The building on the left of this photo is what motivated me to look for the depot in this town. The bridge in the background is a lift bridge over the Mississippi River.

Steven J. Brown posted

Austin Seely: Man, that has to be the largest crowd ever to come out to see a Siemens Chugger

Ok, maybe they were waiting for the 2816…

Anthony Angelici: Austin Seely 2816

Michael Parker: Mean train 28

Steven J. Brown: The last 4 cars are #28, it runs as #8.

Steven J. Brown shared

This is what the railfans were waiting for as caught in Watertown, WI.

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The sight and sounds of a steam engine at speed just cannot be beat.  Here is the CP2816 zipping eastbound at Watertown wisconsin.  [Empress, a 4-6-4]