Lakemoor, IL: Johnson Forge

(Satellite)

I should check it out to see lineshafts in action.

Photo, Oct 2021

Photo, Oct 2021

Photo, Oct 2021

Unearth Illinois posted
No experience required: at a plain little shop in Lakemoor, Illinois, first-timers grip a hammer, strike glowing steel, and walk out holding something they made with fire and their own two hands. The walls crowded with old tools make your first swing feel like part of a craft far older than the building.
https://unearththevoyage.com/beginners-get-to-try.../..

Lamy, NM: (Amtrak+Brewery)/Santa Fe Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2016

Paul Andrew posted
Lamy NM Station formerly along the AT&SF RR now a stop on Amtrak's SW Chief.

David George: Passed by this station a dozen years ago while on the Chief and made a mental note to visit it if I was ever in N.M. Last year I was and I did. I was able to photograph the station inside and out. They have since altered the interior a bit so I'm glad I got the photos when I did. Very few people get on or off in Lamy but the Chief stops every day.

They have some old box cars for storage.

Street View, Apr 2026

Daniel Williams, Dec 2024

Atheria in NM, Aug 2024

charlotte ross-lonergan, Jul 2023

Atheria in NM, Aug 2024

Wheeler, KS: Wood Grain Elevators

Abandoned: (Satellite)

Still used: (Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2024

Street View, Jul 2024

Street View, Jul 2024

Bob Kisken posted six photos with the comment: "WHEELER KS NOT USED MY FAFORITE."

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This IC route is still owned by CN.

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Cairo, MO: Lost/Wabash Depot

(Satellite, based on the aerial photo below.)

Berry Canote posted
I finally found a decent photo of the Cairo Wabash station!

This map doesn't show some of the streets north Martin Street as slanted. That is an unusual mistake for a topo map.

1910/10 Macon Quad @ 62,500

Jan 27, 1950 @ 17,000; AR1IY0000030014

I learned about another Wabash branch west of the Mississippi River. This town was on the route between Des Moines and Moberly. As expected, this route is now abandoned.

1 of 8 images posted by Kevin Piper via Dennis DeBruler

Glendive, MT: BNSF/NP Roundhouse and Classic Cement Grain Elevator

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2021

Sam Walter posted
One of the only classic "midwest" Tillotson-style concrete elevators im aware of in Montana, in the town of Glendive.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Sam's post
Remnants of the BNSF/NP industrial spur that went along the river still exist, https://maps.app.goo.gl/LBedhqzK6ZDEfSfT9.

Comments on Sam's post

This map taught me to look for the roundhouse. The river in Sam's photo helped me find the industrial spur. I first looked along the mainline. This spur explains why I didn't find the elevator along the mainline.

1967/70 Gendive Quad @ 24,000

BNSF still owns the north, east and south "spokes" of the NP.

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The west spoke is now an industrial spur.

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Waverly, TN: Lost/NC&StL Depot

(Satellite, according to the topo map below, it was probably in the southeast quadrant of TN-13 and the tracks. The new US-70 route through town reused the depot's land.)

NC&StL = Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis (The Dixie Line)

Andrew Waldo posted

Waverly, Tennessee: Passenger & Freight Station, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad. NC&StL’s Passenger & Freight Station at Waverly was estimated built in 1884. The photograph was taken on 11 April 1916.

Credit: National Archives & Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railroad, Tennessee. Digital Image Collection of Andrew Waldo. Fine prints from high resolution copies of the scans are available for purchase in various sizes.

1950/53 Waverly Quad @ 24,000

The railroad is still owned by CSX.

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Macksville, KS: Wood Grain Elevator and Flour Mill

Wood: (Satellite)

I wonder what the concrete building used to be.

Street View, Sep 2025

This is on the other side of the road. Its call The Stfford County Flour Mills., but it looks like a normal storage elevator rather than a flour mill.

Street View, Sep 2025

John Krattinger posted
Macksville, Kansas