Waverly, NE: 1871 CB&Q Depot & Water Tower, Wood Grain Elevator and Lumber Yard

Original Depot: (Satellite, based on the aerial photo below.)

Current Depot: (Satellite)

Water Tower: (Satellite)

Old Elevator: (Satellite)

New Elevator: (Satellite)

Lumber Yard: (Satellite)

1871 Depot and Water Tower

"In 1970 it was moved to the largest of the city parks for many uses including a few years as a haunted house. In 2002 it was moved to the Camp Creek fair grounds (2mi East of Waverly)" [reddit]

I.e. Xam posted
Waverly NE

James Dobbins posted three photos with the comment:

Good morning all! 

I'm glad I found this page. 

In the photos is the Waverly, Nebraska depot saved from demo several years back. 

My grandpa retired from the Lincoln yard in '96, his dad worked for BNSF as well, and his grandfather too (CB&Q).

When my grandpa passed my uncle took care of the depot and showed it at the annual thresher show on the fair grounds (Camp Creek Threshers).

When my uncle passed they asked me to be the caretaker the best I can. So I've done some cleaning, and fixed up some of the kids stuff. 

I'm glad to share with you all what's here. 

With the 3 generations from 1894 to 1996 they held on to a lot. The depot has 3 rooms, and the luggage room has a model train set.

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Note the waterspout on the right side of the photo at the top of these notes and the water tower in the background of Photo 3 above. I'm glad to see that the water tower was also saved.

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Robert Souder, Jul 2016

This is also on the Camp Creek Thresher's ground.

Stephany DeGarmo, Jan 2020

The grounds also has a 7.5" guage railroad club.

CampCreekRailroaders

I wonder what was stored in all of those bins on the north side of town. That property has been reused as a material handling facility.

May 1, 1965 @ 18,000; AR1VAZV00050079

The black rectangle parallel to the tracks and east of Lancashire Street was the depot.

1964/65 Waverly Quad @ 24,000

Old and New Grain Elevators

Even though there are sidings by the elevator, I don't think it is rail served.

Street View, Jul 2025

Their new site has chemicals and propane as well as more storage.

Street View, May 2025

Lots of propane. It looks like the co-op also supplies drainage pipes.

Street View, May 2025

Lumber Yard

I note this lumber yard because it is rail served.

Satellite

Note only does the industrial spur have fresh ballast, a satellite caught a lumber car in the yard.

Satellite

Page, ND: Lost Wood Grain Elevator because of a Derecho

(Satellite)

Since it has a fall protector, it probably had rail service.

Street View, Sep 2021

Before the Jun 2025 derecho:

Street View, Sep 2021

After, comparable view:

Street View, Aug 2025

Wesley Peters posted four photos with the comment:

Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota.

Page, Cass County, ND.

Page Elevator Co. Built in 1946, Hogenson Construction Co. 90,000-bushel capacity.

This elevator was damaged by a derecho in June 2025. Demolished sometime in November or December 2025.

Photographed on 7/19/2025.

Photos courtesy of Wesley Peters.

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Chris Hennebry commented on Wesley's post
One of the bins from the Page Grain Elevator damaged from the June 20th derecho.

The current (Jul 2026) satellite image is after the derecho.

Satellite

Both routes were Great Northern. Both routes are now owned by BNSF.

1967/69 Page Quad @ 24,000

Prattville, AL: 1833 Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Factory

(HABS; Satellite)

Prattville is the company town that was designed by Daniel Pratt to support his factory. [apnews]

Street View, Jan 2026

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The factory was built near a waterfall or steep rapids because back in the 1830s, water was the only source of power other than horses.

Steve Cole posted

The Ole Pratt Cotton Gin Factory Spillway !! 

Prattville

TripAdvisor, Carol H, Jan 2020, 19th of 71 photos, cropped

The Daniel Pratt Gin Company was founded in 1833 and he began manufacturing in 1836. In 1838 he formally founded the town of Prattville, Alabama. His model town included homes for the workers, churches, and Alabama’s first free school (for white children only). By the 1850s Pratt gins were sold across the US and even in world markets. Prattville also boasted a cotton mill and a woolen mill. Pratt was a pro-slavery, pro-Tariff, anti-secession Whig until Alabama seceded from the Union, at which point he went with the state and his business interests. The Prattville mills supplied the Confederate army with cloth. After the war, Daniel Pratt kept his town going with his own money until his business picked up by 1870. His nephew ran the company after Daniel’s death. It was bought by Continental Gin Co. in 1899. Continental manufactured gins in Prattville until 2009, then moved production to India. Daniel Pratt has been called the South’s first industrialist." [AmericanHistory, I can't believe that they did not include a photo of the gin.]

Of the buildings still standing, Pratt built the earliest structure in the mid-1840s after he soon found that the building in which he began his gin business was much too small for the rate at which his business was growing. A second structure was built in 1852 adjoining the first. The narrow, multistory buildings were designed in such a way that the factories’ machines could be powered using the fall of water from the Autauga Creek which flowed into shafts inside the buildings. Tall, narrow windows were the only source of light and fireplaces provided the only heat, making fire a real possibility. The factory operated with a small workforce, relatively small machines, and a high proportion of handwork. One notable feature of the 1852 building is the angle which no explanation could be made for, but one theory is that Daniel Pratt’s office was located at the end of this building, and from this vantage point he could survey not only his factory but also the buildings across the creek and those located along the main street of Prattville.

A much larger three-story building was constructed in 1854, double the size of Pratt’s previous buildings and an indication of how fast both Pratt’s business and the town were growing. Probably the factory’s most striking feature, the cupola located atop the building housed signaling devices throughout the years, first a bell, later a whistle, to advise factory workers when shifts began and ended.

[AbandonedAlabama]

HABS ALA,1-PRAVI,3-
1. Historic American Buildings Survey W. N. Manning, Photographer, March 26, 1935 COPY OF 'DANIEL PRATT COTTON GIN MANUFACTORY - Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Factory, Prattville, Autauga County, AL Photos from Survey HABS AL-685

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2. Historic American Buildings Survey W. N. Manning, Photographer, March 26, 1935 COPY SHOWING FACTORY AFTER BEING ENLARGED

When his business recovered from the Civil War in the 1870s, he invested in the iron & coal resources and the railroads around Birmingham. [AbadonedAlabama]

The five historic buildings have been converted into 127 upscale apartments. [apnews]

Hailey Conway, May 2023

hillworks
"The former rail line bisecting the site is marked with large paint stripes"

Fairmont, ND: Wood & Big Grain Elevator and Flour Mill

Wood: (Satellite)

West Acres: (Satellite)

Ardent Mills: (Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2024

Wesley Peters posted

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

Fairmount, Richland County, ND.

Osceola Milling Co./Victoria Elevator Co. Headhouse built in 1918, T. E. Ibberson Co. Bushel capacity unknown. Annex built in 1940. 25,000-bushel capacity.

The annex is one of three surviving elevator structures built for the Victoria Elevator Co. in North Dakota.

Photographed on 7/20/2025.

Photo courtesy of Wesley Peters.

Street View, Jul 2024

West Acres Grain

It has a fall protector and a long siding, so it should be rail served. In fact, I saw a couple of small cuts of hoppers on a siding in a satellite image.

Street View, Aug 2024

Ardent Mills

Obviously, this flour mill is rail served.

Street View, Aug 2024

The industrial spur that goes south serves a fertilizer supply and a propane tank farm.

Satellite

Do they supply 28% ammonia as well as dry fertilizer?

Street View, Jul 2024

Originally, the east/west route was the SOO Line, and the north/south route was the Milwaukee. The Great Northern and most of the Milwaukee is now abandoned. Today's tracks are now owned by CPKC.

1953/65 Fargo Quad @ 250,000

Newark, NJ: 1903 NJtransit/DL&W Broad Street Station

(Satellite)

Newark also had depots for Pennsy and Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ).

Street View, Mar 2023

Old Newark posted

John L Garcia: Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Newark Broad Street Station.

John L Garcia shared with the comment: "Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Newark Broad Street Station."

劉佳儒, Apr 2023

Anthony P, Mar 2023

Bernie Wagenblast, Oct 2023

High Street in the above historical photo has been renamed Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. And it still has stairs to the platform.

Street View, Sep 2025

Edward Thornton posted seven photos with the comment: "July 1982 - I will need help with this post.  Sorry to say, I did not keep good notes.  I have these slides listed as "Newark Station".  Obviously, this is not Amtrak's Newark Station.  My only clue is the DL&W cast on the wall.  Will have to find my way on Google Maps. -- Anyhow, enjoy these few slides and, as always, leave comments and corrections.  UPDATE:  Broad Street Station - last stop before Hoboken."

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