Little Rock, AR: Union Station and MoPac/SIMS Railyards

Depot: (Satellite)

Classification Railyard: (Satellite)

Backshop Railyard: (Satellite, it still has a transfer table.)

Abandoned Coach Railyard: (Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2015

RRAdventrues posted four photos with the comment: "Union Station— in Little Rock, AR."

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The Amtrak passengers have to walk a rather long way aways to get to the platform.

Street View, Aug 2019

The back shop with a transfer table on the east end.

Satellite

SIMS (St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern) had two through routes this this metro area. By they 1954, MoPac had bought SIMS. MoPac and SSW (Cotton Belt) had branches that terminated here. I presume that MoPac and SSW shared this station with SIMS. Rock Island also had a through route, but they had their own Rock Island Depot. What remains of all of these routes is now owned by UP.

1954 North Little Rock, Mc Almont, Sweet Home and Little Rock Quads @ 24,000

Comanche, MT: Wood Grain Elevator

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It looks like the elevator had two bolted steel silos, but they have been knocked over.

Street View, Sep 2021

Those steel silos have been laying there for over a decade.

Street View, Sep 2009

Sam Walter posted
Comanche, Montana, Yellowstone County

The railroad was Great Northern.

1979/80 Broadview East Quad @ 24,000

This town is on the route between Judith Gap and Mossmain.

BNSF via Dennis DeBruler

Mena, AR: KCS Roundhouse and Museum/Depot

Roundhouse: (Satellite, it was long gone by 1950s.)

Depot: (Satellite)

Rick Shilling posted
1898 Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Roundhouse and Turntable, Mena, Arkansas. Reorganized as Kansas City Southern Railroad in 1900.

Track side:

Street View, Sep 2013

Street side:

Street View, Feb 2024

Erica A., May 2024

Lacifer Y, Mar 2023

Kevin Strope, Aug 2024
The sign says: "First Telephone Exchange in Polk County."

1900 is a long time ago. I think the roundhouse was long gone even by 1958.

1958/59 Potter and Mena Quads @ 24,000

Given the curve in the photo and the fanout of tracks, I think the roundhouse was down around today's Ekena Millworks.

May 14, 1955 @ 23,600; AR1VIM000060174

Bridger, MT: Two Wood Grain Elevators and Kelly Bean Elevator

North: (Satellite)

South: (Satellite)

Bean: (Satellite)

North:

Street View, Jun 2024

South, the north elevator is on the far right in this view.

Street View, Jun 2024

Sam walter posted two photos with the comment: "Bridger, Montana."

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When I saw these tanks in a satellite view, I wondered if they were liquid fertilizer. But it looks like some sort of petroleum product. The "south" elevator is on the right in this view.

Street View, Jun 2024

The Northern Pacific railroad was already abandoned south of this town in the 1950s.

1956/57 Bridger Quad @ 24,000

When I checked out if the CB&Q tracks still existed, I discovered Kelly Bean.

Street View, Aug 2013

Not only does the railroad still exist, Kelly Bean appears to get rail service.

Street View, Jun 2024

Street View, Aug 2013

So an elevator is not only getting service from a Class I railroad, it is getting carload service because I think this elevator is on the route between Laurel, MT, and Frannie, WY.

BNSF

But I'm sure that a carload of edible beans is worth more than a carload of soybeans, especially if packaged and shipped in boxcars. I added the "grainPlant" label because of Kelly Bean.

Yellowstone Bean Co, Mar 2022

Clarendon, MI: Lost/Michigan Central Depot and Extant Coaling Tower

Depot: (Satellite?)

Coaling Tower: (Satellite)

Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum posted two photos with the comment:

Today’s featured depot is the Michigan Central station in Clarendon 🚂

Clarendon, located in Calhoun County, was first settled in the 1830s. It was originally named Cook’s Prairie before being renamed in 1840. 

Clarendon sat on the Michigan Central’s Air Line Branch and had a large concrete coaling facility. These coaling stations were typically assigned to mainline service, but for a period the Michigan Central used the Air Line between Jackson and Niles as its eastbound freight route, while westbound trains ran over the main line connecting those same cities.

The original depot no longer stands, but the coaling station still exists. It is on private property.

Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum shared

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I got an aerial photo hoping to find the depot's location. I could not find it. And the coaling tower is not much more than a smudge. I included MI-60 across the top of this excerpt so that Gordon Road can be used to provide an east/west scale.

Aug 16, 1956 @ 60,000; ARA550360060499

Charbonneau, ND: Two Wood Grain Elevators

(Satellite)

These two elevators are about the only thing this town has.

Street View, Oct 2024

Devon Hestekin posted seven photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator's of Charbonneau, North Dakota.

Took a road trip to check of Charbonneau off my ghost town bucket list and been wanting to see these two. Taken February 21, 2026.

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Eric Miller commented on Devon's post
Nice. Got to see them a few years ago. Love that country. Definitely different in the winter than in June. I’d like to get up there this time of the year, someday.

The railroad was the Great Northern.

1953/68 Watford City Quad @ 250,000

Rogersville, MO: Lost/Frisco Depot and Caboose

Depot: (Satellite, based on the street view below.)

Caboose: (Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2015

Richard Crabtree posted four images with the comment:

Here we see the Frisco Depot in Rogersville, Mo

Built originally for the Kansas City Fort Scott & Memphis in the 1880s. It was later acquired by the Frisco R.R. Unfortunately, she is no longer with us. But there is a Frisco Caboose nearby.

Photo 1) Rogersville Frisco Depot in 1910s

Photo 2) Rogersville Frisco Depot Floor Plan MSUDC

Photo 3 & 4) Google Map View

Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "Rogersville Missouri (Frisco Lines)."

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There used to be a small railyard in this town.

1945/45 Ozark Quad @ 62,500

And BNSF still uses it as a small railyard.

Satellite