Valley Forge National Park, PA: Reading Depots

East: (Satellite, abandoned)

West: (Satellite, National Park Service Museum)

East: Valley Forge Park/Port Kennedy Station

Abandoned, Roadside and Historic Urbex, May 2023

Craig Richardson posted three photos with the comment: "Looks like a recent paint job on the lower 8’ of the building. Long out of use depot in Valley Forge National Park."

[According to the photo above, they painted more than the lower 8'.]

Jim Kelling: Reading Company station; can’t remember its original name.

Patrick Linebaugh: Jim Kelling This is the Port Kennedy Station at the far end of the park. The official Valley Forge Reading Railroad Station is located at the other end ... very close to Washington's Valley Forge encampment Headquarters.

Chuck Noonan: They really cleaned up the area by the station before Big Boy came through this summer [2026].

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I cropped the top photo differently so that we can see how much chainsaw work they did for the Big Boy visit.

Abandoned, Roadside and Historic Urbex, May 2023

West: Museum/1911 Reading Valley Forge Train Station

nps
"The Reading Railroad company constructed the railroad in 1842, and the route along the Schuylkill River served to connect Philadelphia with the coal fields in western Pennsylvania."

Street View, Aug 2014

Cici, Nov 2024

A recreation of Washington's Headquarters is across the lawn from the depot.

Francisco Santiago, May 2021

Big Boy 2026:

Don Steckel, Jul 2026

La Salle, MN: Wood Grain Elevator

North Facility: (Satellite)

South Facility: (Satellite)

North Facility

Given the feed truck on the left side, this must be a feed mill. The C&NW railroad was on the other side of the elevator. The railroad is now abandoned.

Street View, Jul 2025

South Facility

Street View, Jul 2025

This elevator must be used for storage of grain going to the market.

Street View, Jul 2025

Both

Wesley Peters posted five photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota.

La Salle, Watonwan County, MN.

Southwest Complex- Early history unknown.

Northeast Complex- Farmers Grain Co. False-front combination headhouse/annex built in 1969, Hogenson Construction Co. Bushel capacity unknown.

Features Hogenson's signature mint green office and driveway.

Photographed on 7/20/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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The railroad was the C&NW. It is now abandoned.

1967/69 La Salle Quad @ 24,000

Manville, PA: Reading Weston (WX) Tower

(Satellite, based on aerial photo below and confirmed by the railfan photos.)

Darren Reynolds posted six images with the comment:

Readings "Weston" (WX) tower
At: Manville, New Jersey
This tower is no longer standing

Tim Shanahan shared

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"Weston" tower (WX) Wes in Manville, New Jersey on

December 5, 1981 in the Conrail era...

Phot by: Robert Staples

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The CTC machine inside of "Weston" tower July 1969

Photo by: Rob Mandeville

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A Reading track and interlocking diagram for Weston- Manville, New Jersey and interlocking machine information..

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An RDC passes "Weston" tower with a Commuter train

1981

Photo by: Geoff Hubbs

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A B&O train with Eng # 3700 passes "Weston " tower on July 1969

Photo by: Rob Mandeville

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All Boarded up and not needed anymore "Weston" tower

1984... I'm not sure when this tower was torn down...

Photo by: Robert Staples

The track diagram above indicates that the tower was on the south side of the tracks. 

1955/63 Bound Brook Quad @ 24,000

Apr 24, 1953 @ 20,000; AR1XI0000060198

The spacing and the size of the shadows of the two buildings southwest of Kyle Street is consistent with the photos.

Digitally Zoomed

In fact, this house is in the background of Photo 5.

Street View, Jul 2026 (Satellite)

Greensburg, KS: Lost/Rock Island Depot and Old Grain Elevators

Depot: (Satellite, lost)

Wood Grain Elevator: (Satellite, lost)

Concrete Elevators: (Satellite)

Bob Summers posted
Stolen from another group

Bob Summers: can anyone date the automobile?

Jim Merrick: Bob Summers -- We sure can date the locomotives:

Rock Island FTs (3 of them) and a pair of FA-1s. The FT units were built in 1944-'45 and the FA-1s were built in 1948. Given the slight wear / lack of wear we can see on the units, I would date this photo to about the end of the 1940s, maybe close to 1950, but not much later than 1950.

Robert Chitwood commented on Bob's comment

Ag chemical supplies occupy more land than the grain elevator.

Street View, Sep 2021

The wood grain elevator is gone, but the slip-form and jump-form elevators still exist.

Street View, Sep 2021

The railroad is now owned by UP.

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Royersford, PA: Restaurant/Reading Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2019

Al Tillotson posted
Norfolk Southern Conway-Abrams 32A passes the former Reading Company Royersford PA station on the Harrisburg Line, Wednesday afternoon September 16, 2026.  Erie RR heritage unit SD70ACe 1068 leads.

Juliana Laury, Oct 2025

Moorcroft, WY: Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

I'm surprised that the elevator didn't grow. Normally, a wood grain elevator has some bins next to it.

Street View, Aug 2026

Eric Miller posted
Moorcroft Wyoming, June 2026.

The railroad is BNSF/CB&Q.

1957/59 Moorcroft Quad @ 62,500

It is on the route between Alliance, NE, and Billings, MT.

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Clarksvile, IN: Clockworks/Colgate-Palmolive Plant

(Satellite)

Street View, Jan 2022

From the same location, I could see the main trusses of the Pennsy Bridge over the Ohio River.

Street View, Jan 2022

Just Kentucky posted
August 1965 vs. 2025: A nighttime image of the Colgate-Palmolive building in Clarksville, complete with neon signs and a clock.

2025:

WHAS11 News posted
The Town of Clarksville held an illumination ceremony on Saturday for its iconic Colgate Clock ahead of its upcoming 101st anniversary on Monday.

"At its peak in the mid-1960s, Clarksville's Colgate-Palmolive plant was filled with some 1,500 workers who made toothpaste, shaving cream and cleansers." It closed in 2008. Colgate acquired the building in 1921 to make soap and added the clock in 1924. "In 1941-42, the plant was expanded to also produce toothpaste, shaving cream and other toiletries." [manufacturing]

The property was sold in 2011 for redevelopment. [bizjournals]

But by 2025, Clarksville was not happy with the progress and threatened to redevelop it. [lpm]

NewsAndTribune, a rendering
In May, 2026, plans were announced that included "a conference center, sports park and a Marriott hotel along with several other amenities." The property would be called Clockworks.
[And then I hit a paywall.]

Today's view:

NewsAndTribune

I can't reconcile this rendering with the one above.

NewsAndTribune

NewsAndTribune