Richmond, VA: ALCO/Richmond Locomotive Works

(Satellite, the industrial area.)

Tim Starr posted
Layout of the Richmond Locomotive Works at Richmond VA in 1902. It had just merged with several others to form the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).

This 1901 topo map shows the two creeks that are on the diagram, but it doesn't show any buildings nor the Seaboard Air Line.

1895/1901 Richmond Quad @ 62,500

The Bacoms Quarter Branch has been filled in, but this map shows the SAL mainline. It shows tracks, but no buildings in the area of the Richmond Locomotive Works.

1934/34 Richmond Quad @ 24,000

Delaware Water Gap, PA: Dilapidated/DL&W Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2017

Dante Medori (Dantelevator), Feb 2018

Raymond Storey posted three photos with the comment: "DELAWARE WATER GAP PA. THE DL&W."

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Brian Woodruff, Jun 2023

Bucyrus, OH: Sinclair Gas Station on Original 1913 Lincoln Highway Route

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2016

I went back and checked, the pay telephone booth on the right side of the above 2016 view did not exist in 2024.

Street View, Jun 2024

Brian Butko posted in Lincoln Highway
From Jeff Blair for use in our 2013 Lincoln Highway centennial book of photos, here is Carl’s Gas Station & Fifties Memories, a loving recreation of a vintage service station east of Bucyrus, Ohio, on Hopley Avenue, the original 1913 LH route.

Thom Swigart, May 2023

Indianapolis, IN: Pennsy Railyards: Panhandle Repair and 1916 Hawthorne

Repair: (Satellite, Pennsy had the grass above the mainline, B&O had the State Yard that is now CSX intermodal car storage.)

Hawthorne: (Satellite, a lot of it is grass now. It stretches between Southeastern and Arlington Avenues.)

I researched these yards while trying to determine the location of this roundhouse. The topo maps go back to just 1948. I could not find which yard had this roundhouse, but I note it because it is a rare example of a single roundhouse with two turntables.

IndianaHistory, Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society
Pennsylvania Railroad, turntable, 1913 (Bass #32698)
indyencyclopedia, Credit: Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society View Source
This webpage gives a history of the Pennsy properties that connected to Indianapolis.

Tim Starr posted
Railway Age suggested this as an ideal design for a full circle roundhouse in 1919. It has two 125-foot turntables and stalls 120 feet long with a section of 125-foot stalls for Mallets. A clearing track at center could be used in case one or both turntables went down. It was estimated this setup could handle 200-250 locomotives per day. As far as I know, this type of design (not exact) was only used twice in the US, at Jersey City and Ivy City (Washington DC).

Repair Yard, the first Panhandle Yard in Indianapolis 

I don't know why this map doesn't show a roundhouse. There was one just east of Willard Park.

1948/48 Indianapolis West and East Quads @ 24,000

intransporthistory
1937 aerial photo of the original Pennsylvania Railroad Indianapolis Repair Yards.

Hawthorne, Penny's Replacement Railyard

It was out in the countryside when it was built in 1916 just east of the Indianapolis Union Belt Railroad.

1948/48 Indianapolis East Quad @ 24,000

When they built the yard, they also built tracks on the east end that connected with the mainline at THORN junction. This allowed freight trains to avoid going through Irvington, which contained Butler University at the time. On the west side, Pennsy used the Indianapolis Belt to connect to their mainline. Pennsy owned 60% of that terminal railroad. [intrasnporthistory_hawthorne]

1948/48 Indianapolis East Quad @ 24,000

Appleton, WI: Lost/C&NW Depot

(Satellite, North Street did not cross the tracks to Packard Street when the depot existed.)

Raymond Storey posted
APPLETON WIS

We can see the curve of the road in the right side of the photo that we see on this map between Appleton and Oneida Streets. The rectangle at that curve would have been the depot.

1955/57 Appleton Quad @ 24,000

This aerial confirms that the station was located between Appleton and Oneida Street and south of the tracks. The roads in this area have changed a lot since then.

1938 Aerial Photo from WIHAP

Wing, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot

(Satellite)

Andy Zukowski posted
Wabash Railroad Depot in Wing, Illinois. 1913
Steven Hooker shared

The railroad went along the west side of town. Today, a treeline marks where it had been.

1949/49 Cullom Quad @ 62,500

Since the photo shows the town in the background, we can rule out the rectangle on the west side of the tracks.

1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The town does have a good sized grain elevator.

Satellite

Cresco, IA: Lost/Milwaukee Depot and Lost Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite, south of the tracks, which were south of 1st Ave., and halfway between Elm and 2nd Streets.)

West Grain Elevator: (Satellite)

East Grain Elevator: (Satellite)

John Harker posted two images with the comment: "Thomas J Post captured Milw train #601, Marquette - Austin via Calmar, at the Cresco, Iowa freight station in June 1976.  It was being pulled by GP9 328 and an unidentified SD9.  Based on the timetable, the train was a daily except Monday and was scheduled to arrive in Cresco at 11:36 am from Calmar.  It was either running later on this day or it was overcast.  I scanned and edited this image from an original Kodak Ektachrome processed slide in my collection.  Attached for reference is an aerial map showing the location of the freight station."

Tim Schneider: when was this line yanked?

Mark Montague: Tim Schneider Last run November 1983. Pulled up around June-July 1984.

James Ziegler: Wish this line was still there.

Mark Montague: James Ziegler This line had its advocates. Lower ruling grade of 0.9% versus 1.4% for the Austin-Mason City-Calmar routing. It carried approximately 15,000 overhead cars per year plus generated 600 online carloads in the late seventies.

By 1982, the rail was completely worn out. Speed had dropped from 25 mph to 10 mph. The country was in recession. So the Milwaukee II plan was adjusted to drop this segment in favor of rebuilding the shorter Austin-Mason City line.

Years later I read in Railway Age that Soo Line wished this 68 mile segment had been retained.

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There were house tracks behind the depot. Those sidings probably served the grain elevator that we see in the background of the first image.

1981/82 Cresco SE Quad @ 24,000

Mike Cunningham posted two photos with the comment: "Here's a couple of pictures to add to John's pictures and notes on this line. I have a date of 1984 on the back."

Lynn Wood: Is this the Cresco Iowa that a Milw: ukee Road Maintenance of Way worker who found a young American Buffalo wandering on the right of way, no open gates spotted, brought it into the local bar and gave it beer out of his work helmet? Before calling the sheriff to find out whose livestock had been sauntering down the right of way?

Patrick Young: Is this Cresco, Iowa? The locomotive there is looking pretty sad and needs a makeover.

Mike Cunningham: Patrick Young yup..Cresco..looking sad when I drove by in 84. Locomotive brought in for display in the park...

Hugh Jassel: Patrick Young I believe the locomotive.. a boxcar and caboose were either pushed or pulled with a payloader to Cresco. They had to get the train to Cresco quickly because scrapping was already starting on the line.

Mark Montague: Yes. This is the accurate account of getting the 101-A to Cresco. It was non-operational at that time, later restored to running but not much track to move on.

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Grain elevators were built on the east and west sides of town to replace the one we see in the top photo.

Cresco East
[This location stores grain and supplies fertilizer.]

Cresco West
[The part in the foreground is probably their feed mill and the bigger gins in the back would be their grain storage.]

The two wood grain elevators on the west side caught my eye. Unfortunately, according to this satellite image, the tall one is gone. (York Street was built on the Milwaukee RoW.)

Satellite

The street view coverage of this town is very poor, so I fired up Google Earth. The satellite image above was taken in Nov 2023. This previous image does have the wood elevator.

Google Earth, Jul 2020