Dunlap, IL: Lost/Rock Island Depot

(Satellite)

Nearby is the Wheels of Time Museum.

This town lost the railroad as well as the depot, but the grain elevator has grown considerably.

Andy Zukowski posted
Railroad Depot & Grain Elevator with Rock Island Box Car,  C1912 in Dunlap Illinois

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1937/49 Dunlap Quad @ 62,500

The elevator is large considering it has no rail service. The pin was the depots location. The Rock Island right of way is now a trail north and south of town.

Satellite

Guthrie, IL: Lost/IC Depot and Wood Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, based on Tom's photo and the aerial photo below.)

Elevator: (Satellite)
 

Street View, Jun 2018

Tom Dueringer posted three images with the comment: "After years of searching we finally found a picture of the Guthrie, Illinois train 🚂 depot that existed from 1882 - 1932… on the Illinois Central Railroad 🛤️ line… enjoy ☺️ the pictures…"

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Without Tom's photo, I would have guessed the depot was the rectangle between the tracks and the road. But Tom's photo shows it is the little rectangle that is west of the tracks.

1940 Aerial Photo via ILHAP

Ridgeville, IL: Ridgeville Tower: Pennsy vs. Pennsy/GR&I

(Satellite, both routes are now abandoned.)

GR&I = Grand Rapids and Indiana

Mark Teer posted
Ridgeville Ind.PRR,50’s

1960/61 Ridgeville Quad @ 24,000

Union City, IN: Art Association/Depot and Moved Junction Tower: Pennsy vs. Big4 vs. B&O

Depot: (Satellite)

Original Tower: (Satellite)

Current Tower: (Satellite)

The tower is on the right and the depot is on the left. But the depot is obscured by trees.

Street View, Sep 2024

The original location:

Street View, Sep 2013

Mark Teer posted four photos with the comment: "Union City, Ind. Recently moved from railroad property for preservation, now across the street from station."

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Street View, Sep 2024

Martin Mason, Sep 2021

The B&O branch terminated here. The B&O and Pennsy routes are now abandoned and the Big Four route is owned by CSX.

1960/61 Union City Quad @ 24,000

Hartford City, IN: Pennsy Hart Tower, Freight House and Signalling Pipelines

(Satellite?, I could not find an aerial photo with decent resolution.)

Mark Teer posted
Hartford City,Ind.1909,shows Hart tower.

Matthew Lappin: there were 4 tracks through from west of the depot to a location called Renner. The tower controlled it and it was 4 track bi direction running, coal dock was half way between.

When steam went away they removed the 2 outside mains. they also had industrial leads both sides.

A railroad cop was stationed there around the clock.

my grandpa (Ol WW Im sure you remember him out at Montpelier in his white car train watching or waiting for me to go thru) use to say it was impossible when he was a kid to get across SR26 due to trains at the coal dock.

PRR had a switch engine to work the 4 glass plants and Overhead Door plant

[A good view of signalling pipelines branching out from the main run. Also, there are two buildings that house speeders. We can see the tracks from the buildings to move them to the main track.]

Pennsy was the east/west route.

1960 Hartford City West and East Quads @ 24,000

Lackawanna, NY: Seneca Iron & Steel Co.

(Satellite)

Brian R. Wroblewski posted thee photos with the comment: "Predecessor to Bethlehem Steel, taken over as part of the Lackawanna, NY plant in 1932 & still exists today."

Rafer Rokeach: Location ?

Dennis DeBruler: Rafer Rokeach Based on Photo 3: https://maps.app.goo.gl/yVKZB2PzdTy5qDtC7 and https://maps.app.goo.gl/2quoLoozj3wJkFhJA

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Rockhill, PA: 1872 East Broad Top Railroad and Trolley Museum

EBT Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Trolley Museum: (Satellite)

East Broad Top (EBT), "which was built beginning in 1872, is the only surviving three-foot gauge common carrier railroad east of the Rocky Mountains....Our roundhouse still houses steam locomotives that have called this site home since they were built in the early 1900s. Our machine shop, the largest and most intact belt-driven facility of its kind in the United States, still echoes with the sounds of craftsmanship from a bygone era." [EastBroadTop]

Stephen Boothroyd posted
old photo of the East Broadtop roundhouse at Orbisonia, PA in the 1970s

 

Don Richardson commented on Stephen's post
2009

Chris Ohl, Apr 2025

Street View, Sep 2023

1 of 12 photos posted by Greg Obst
A few photos from the shop tour today at the East Broad Top Railroad in Rockhill Furnace, PA. The fellow who gave the tour was super knowledgeable and very accommodating of his time and making sure everyone had their questions answered. It was a great experience. This place is chock full of history. I’ll be posting more photos over the next few days.
Chris Nicholson Sr.: I had heard that someone bought the the EAST Broad Top RR, has there been any word as to whether it will be open to the the Public again for Train Rides ? I have had my Children over there for rides a number of Years Ago, Now I would like to take my 10 Grandchildren there for a RR RIDE. IT WAWS ALWAYS A QUITE SCENIC RR RIDE, AND THE WORK BUILDINGS AND RR STATION WERE ALWAYS SOMETHING TO TOUR. I LIVE IN WAYNESBORO, SO IT WOULD NOT TAKE LONG TO GET THERE.

AltoonaWorks posted
Slim Gauge Sunday
8/2022 - When you visit the East Broad Top, make sure to do a shop tour if one is available. You won't regret it.
www.eastbroadtop.com
Bernd Varg shared
The East Broad Top Railroad National Historic Landmark in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo: L.R. Myers, 2022
Dustin Lehman: Last time I was there was back in the 90s, with my parents. I see alot of improvements since I was there from this drone photo. Never got to do the shop tour or see the roundhouse tho. Back then the area was chained off to visitors. Did get to ride the trolley tho. My late father would have loved to see this being brought back to life.

I knew about East Broad Top because it is famous for pulling its trains with steam power.

They have preserved and use six of the railroad's original steam locomotives. [EastBroadTop_SteamLocomotives]

The EBT went south of Mount Union, PA, to this location where it branched and went southwest to Alvan and southeast to Neelyton. [1928 RR Atlas] (The font for the terminal towns is in the smallest font, and I'm not sure about the spelling of Alvan because Google Maps doesn't know about it.)

EBT now offers train rides north to Colgate Picnic Grove and south to Pogue. [EastBroadTop_ride]

The trolley museum uses the other EBT branch to here.

They have preserved not only the locomotives, but the equipment necessary to keep them running. This is a wheel lathe. I believe they also do work for other museums to help them keep their steam locomotives running.

EastBroadTop_equipment

Note the lineshafts in the above and following photos.

EastBroadTop_ShopTours

By the 1950s, the southeast branch had already been cut back to today's trolley museum's run. The southwest branch went to what is today call Wood.

1954 Pittsburgh and 1950 Harrisburg Quads @ 250,000