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

Bay Port, MI: Lost/Master Mix Grain Elevator and Quarry

Elevator: (Satellite?)

Quarry: (Satellite)

Duane Wurst posted

Another Bay Port image. 

Here is the Wallage and Morely Bay Port Grain Elevator. The original elevator was built in the late 1800s, when the railroad came into Bay Port. Then, the fish companies were shipping tons of fish out. When Wallage and Morely came into Bay Port, the purchased the General store from Leiken and the Grain Elevator. Soon they also owned several grain elevators alone with the quarrry in Bay Port.

The image here was taken some time in early 1950s.

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Mike Steel shared

I confirmed that the C&O railroad was originally Pere Marquette.

1954/54 Flint Quad @ 250,000

The quarry still exists.

Satellite

Judging by the hopper cars on the siding, it is rail served. 

Satellite

The PM route is now owned by the Huron & Eastern Railroad.

hesr via Dennis DeBruler

Williamson C: Marion, IL: Peabody #3 Coal Mine

(Satellite)

Roger Kujawa posted

Antique Illinois Postcard MARION Peabody Mine No. 3 Coal 1907

Seen on eBay.

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Roger's post
https://wikiimage.isgs.illinois.edu/ilmines/moa_quadrangles/maps/johnston-city-2660.pdf
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7WrNACpzjF7tCqgG9

Dennis DeBruler commented on Roger's post
C&EI had an industrial spur to the mine, and the Coal Belt RR went past the tipple.
1925 Marion and 1909 West Frankfort Quads @ 62,500

Dennis DeBruler commented on Roger's post
1938 aerial photo with Cedar Grove Road along the bottom and IL-37 along the right side.
It looks like the tiple had been torn down by 1938, but the tracks were still intact.

Emmett, MI: Star of the West Milling Co.

(Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2023

Willie Mcphee, Jun 2017

Star of the West Milling Company posted two photos with the comment: "Throwback Thursday: Our Emmett facility was first built by Michigan Bean Company and later became Eastern Michigan Grain under the Lauwers family, who operated it from 1994 to 2007. Today, we’re proud to carry that history forward."

Jill Lewis: Know the place. Hello everyone in Frankenmuth. Keeping busy in my retirement.

Mike Steel shared

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The railroad was the Grand Trunk Western.

1944/44 Memphis Quad @ 24,000

Orchard Park, NY: BR&P Depot and Freight House

(Satellite)

BR&P = Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company updated
Orchard Park station looking south circa 1915. Photo from a BR&P employees magazine

The depot is on the left, and that looks like a freight house on the right.

Street View, Jul 2025

Tim McCarthy, Mar 2023

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company posted
Orchard Park with motor car 1002.

Madison Kirkman: That doesn't look like a McKeen Car to me. Did the B.R.&P. have other Motor Cars?

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company: Madison Kirkman it was a General Electric car.

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company posted
Orchard Park 1954

Orchard Park BR&P Depot posted
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company shared

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company posted three photos with the comment: "The old heart shaped station platform like this one at Orchard Park circa 1915, is hooked up and working! It has a special large teardrop LED bulb that lights everything up nicely!"

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It looks like the town still has rail service by the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.

gwrr_bprr via Dennis DeBruler

Crystal Lake, NY: BR&P+B&S Depot

(Satellite, my guess based on the topo map and satellite image below.)

BR&P = Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh

B&S = Buffalo & Susquehanna

The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company posted
Crystal Lake station on the Rochester Division between Farmersville and Freedom. The station was built by the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad and shared with the BR&P. The station still stands, and is part of camp Scouthaven.

Note that the railroad went through Farmersville Station instead of Farmersville.

1942/42 Franklinville Quad @ 62,500

Note that they had a spur to serve the depot.

Digitally Zoomed

I searched for an image that had less leaves.

Google Earth, Sep 2009

Farmersville Station, Crystal Lake and Freedom are between Machias and Bliss.

Rumsey