Dearborn, MI: Ford's Garage (A Restaurant)

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2025

Street View, Aug 2025

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Wapella, IL: Lost/IC Depot and Wood & Modern Grain Elevators

Depot: (Satellite)

Wood Elevator: (Satellite)

Andy Zukowski posted

Illinois Central Depot, Wapella, Illinois 1/15/1966

Photo from the Barry Lennon Collection

Larry Candilas: MP 777.9 Charter Line

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

I didn't think that locomotive had a CN livery. But about a day after I saw this photo, I saw an orange, standard-cab locomotive parked south of Otto Tower along the former-IC mainline. And then I remembered that CN bought EJ&E, and EJ&E used to have orange locomotives.

Street View, Aug 2025

This map indicates that CN still owns this route to Heyworth, which also has a large grain elevator.

CN

I happened to catch three locomotives parked in town.

Satellite

Note the yellow fall protector on the right. That implies that this elevator gets rail service. In fact, this elevator, and the one in Heyworth, IL, are probably why this segment of the Charter Line still exists.

Street View, Aug 2013

Street View. May 2023

And spreading chemicals on the fields is also a big business in this town.

Street View, Aug 2013

Clarksville, TN: Lost/L&N Freight House & Railyard and "The Cage" Bridge

Freight House: (Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite)

The Cage: (Satellite)

Reed Reding posted
An aerial view of the L & N freight depot at Clarksville, Tennessee. Part of the Cumberland River Drawbridge and the L & N's small Clarksville yard are visible. The line crossing over the L & N is the Tennessee Central's Western Division. You can also make out the unique spur track that the L & N used to serve customers near downtown.

The Tennessee Central Bridge still stands at the end of the Upland Trail.

Ralph M, Sep 2025

Timothy T, Nov 2023

This is a view of the Cumberland River Drawbridge from The Cage. Note that the swing span is open.

정리중, Jun 2025

Oak Hill, OH: 1853-1916 Jefferson Blast Furnace provided iron for the USS MONITOR

(Satellite, it is evidently buried under treetops. See map below.)

Abandoned by Sherman Cahal posted

The Jefferson Furnace is an abandoned pig iron furnace located in the Hanging Rock Iron Region near Oak Hill, Ohio. Constructed in 1854 by the Jefferson Furnace Company, it featured a stack 37 feet high with a bosh 11 feet wide. Fueled by charcoal, its cold air blast was powered by a steam engine and had a daily production capacity of 14 tons. It was later converted to a hot air blast, increasing its daily production capacity. The last cast was on December 26, 1916.

The furnace can be spotted at Jackson Lake State Park.

🔖 Read on: https://abandonedonline.net/location/jefferson-furnace/

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I was looking for which hill the furnace would have been close to. Instead, I discovered that Jefferson Lake is man made by this dam.

1912/35 Oak Hill Quad @ 62,500

Fairburn, GA: CSX Intermodal Yard

(Satellite)

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It is the second largest intermodal yard on CSX's network.

This railyard is modern and purpose built for intermodal traffic. It was a greenfield in 1982. The railroad was the Atlanta & West Point.

1982/83 Fairburn Quad @ 24,000

Some of the yard was built by 1999.

1999/2002 Fairburn Quad @ 24,000

Since then, quite a few industries have built along US-29.

Satellite

La Crosse, IL: Lost/TP&W Depot

(Satellite)

This route is now owned by the Keokuk Junction Railway.

Patty Peterson posted
LaCrosse Depot (1979 Historic Sites and Structures of Hancock County)
[Given that the depot was gone by 1938, the date must be 1879 instead of 1979.]
Kam Miller shared
LaCrosse, Illinois, was a spot on the Toldeo, Peoria and Western, about 5 miles southwest of La Harpe, Illinois. At one time, a grain elevator was there, as well as a siding. Now, the siding is there for storage of cars, but everything else is long gone. The tiny general store featured in the photo book about the TP&W at Lacrosse, is also gone, it's roof having collapsed in years ago.

It is not very often that a 1938 aerial photo is too new to show a depot. But the grain elevator in the photo is still standing in 1938.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The photo shows that the depot was just west of where the siding joined the mainline, so I think we can still see remnants of the footing.

Satellite

Milford Junction, IN: Junction Tower: CSX/B&O vs. NS/Big Four and Modern Purina Feed Mill

Tower: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

I did not know that Big Four had a north/south route in northern central Indiana. I determined that NS still owns this route.

Given the IN-15 overpass in the background, which is west of the junction, it appears the tower is in the northwest quadrant.

Gary Hostetter posted
This is a picture of the Milford Junction Tower on the edge of Milford, Indiana near the state road junction of 6 and 15. My Grandfather was a telegraph operator in that tower, and I was lucky enough to visit the tower a number of times. I loved when a steam engine went by. That was back around 1956. I was 4. The massive levers to through the switches, watching Grandpa send a message on this telegraph key that was horizontal, not vertical. I think about those visits, and treasure them. I never saw a NYC train going through the crossing, north to south, but saw a number of B&O locos. Loved it.

Eric Zerkle: The Winona interurban that ran from Peru through Warsaw and to Goshen..

Tim Shanahan shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Eric's comment
Here is how the Winona Interurban and Big Four ran through Milford. 1951 Milford Quad @ 24,000

Eric Zerkle: Dennis DeBruler The part from Milford jct. to Goshen was gone by the late 1930s

It appears that there are still remnants of the foundation footings.

Satellite

Street View, May 2023

A big part of the Purina operation is a warehouse.

Street View, May 2023

I can't find any feed trucks. Does this plant produce just packaged feed?