Millerton, NY: Mobil Gas Station

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Jay's comment below
101 Main Street, https://maps.app.goo.gl/AEKhJiYSyKdH4vvP6.

Rob Cooper posted
I think I posted this before but it’s been a while. My station in Millerton.

Jay Howell: Rob Cooper what street? I wanna drive by going home from Lee MA.

Richard Burda, Dec 2023

The blue building on the left still has its 19th Century architecture, and the buildings on the right wish that they still had their Italianate architecture.

Street View, Aug 2025

This was a muffler shop.

Street View, Aug 2025

Dows, IA: Museum/Rock Island Depot and Grain Elevator

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Street View, Jun 2025

Seth Wetzel posted
How about Dows, Iowa depot for a change folks!

Fans of Rock Island Lines posted
Dows IA, 9/22/12.  You can see the sand dome just in front of bell, missing its cap. Still making steam, someone is quick on the draw?

As recently as 2013, the grain elevator was railserved.

Street View, Oct 2013

But the siding has been torn up.

Street View, Jul 2021

Iowa Scenic Views By Foot, Aug 2025

While I was looking for a street view that showed the big window in the waiting room, I noticed that the elevator used to have some smaller bins.

Street View, Oct 2013

They put a lot of money into that elevator considering that they lost their rail service. Is there now a nearby ethanol plant that they can haul to?

Street View, Jul 2021

The only RI route left is the one to the west.

1954/68 Waterloo Quad @ 250,000

UP still owns it even though it no longer uses it.

National Rail Network Map

They added three larger bins in 2005-6. And they were obviously getting rail service back then.

Google Earth, Aug 2006

They got rid of the long building by 2015. Note that they still had their own locomotive back then. It is near the bottom edge of this extract. The small bins were gone by the next view, Oct 2019.

Google Earth, Oct 2015

Revere, MA: Tool Rental/B&M Roundhouse

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Larry Smith posted, cropped
roundhouse is in revere MA and now a tool rental.

The topo maps show a gas-o-meter instead of a roundhouse. I think that is a rare mistake in a topo map.

1956/58 Boston North Quad @ 24,000

Jamestown, CA: Railtown 1897 State Historic Park and Sierra Railway

Park: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Cydney George-Abatecola, Sep 2021

Michael Chrien, Jul 2020

Mark Mcgowan posted six photos with the comment: "Scenes from the Railtown 1897 roundhouse and shop in Jamestown, Ca."

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darin kram, Nov 2023

1949/49 Sonora Quad @ 24,000

Milan, IL: Rock Island Deopts

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David Sebben posted
I received this photo recently and it says CRI&P depot in Milan, IL.  But the Milan depot doesn't look like this.  Could this one have preceded the existing one?  Photo from 1909.

Thomas Scoville: This is likely an earlier depot. The current Milan depot's architecture matches other Rock Island depots from the 1910-1920 timeframe. The depot in this photo is much older, probably from the mid-1800s.

Miles W. Rich: Additionally, the original Milan Depot was built by the Rock Island & Peoria Rwy, which also owned the Rock Island & Mercer County RR which both used the Milan Depot before the CRI&P acquired both of those roads around 1900. I have a book on the RI&P. I will check the photos.

Retro Quad Cities posted

Everyone thinks that the little depot in Milan is the original one.  Guess again!  Here is the original Milan depot in this 1909 photo.  It served the Rock Island and Mercer County Railroad.

Miles W. Rich: It served the Rock Island & Peoria Railway also, which built it.

The CRI&P purchased the Rock Island & Peoria which ran from Rock Island to Milan thru Coal Valley, Orion, Cambridge, & Toulon to Peoria. Owned by the same interests, the Cable Family and their mining interests, the Rock Island and Mercer County RR was built from the Milan Depot of the RI&P to Sherrard and Cable. The two railroads were merged and sold to the CRI&P in 1903. The CRI&P then granted trackage rights to the RIS to use the former railroads tracks from Southern Junction to Rock Island. In the 1920s, when the coal ran out in the Cable and Sherrard areas, the CRI&P leased the track from Milan through Taylor Ridge to Southern Junction including the branch to Cable and Sherrard to the RIS. In 1952, when the RIS is shut down, the CRI&P formally abandoned the trackage south of Andalusia Road. The CRI&P abandoned the RI&P in stages. The trackage from Milan to Orion in 1940, after obtaining traffic rights from the CB&Q from Colona to Orion. The trackage from Toulon to Peoria in the early 1960s, and the trackage south of Orion with the shutdown in 1980. The portion of the RI&P from Rock Island to Milan, and the trackage of the RI&MC used by the RIS from The Milan depot to the industrial users along Andalusia Road in Milan & Rock Island is still in use by the IAIS.

Google Maps now (2026) labels it as an ice cream & more shop.

Street  View, Aug 2019

I knew the Rock Island was down here by the I&M Canal and Rock River because of the RI bridges over the Rock River and the bridges over the Hennepin Canal. Now I understand that the purpose of those bridges was to connect the mainline on the north side of Rock Island, IL, to the railroads that it bought south of Milan.

1912/12 Milan Quad @ 62,500

I knew the Rock Island followed the Hennepin Canal further east of here. To see how the RI got from the canal up to Silvis and the Mississippi River, I got a bigger picture.

1958/68 Davenport @ 250,000

Greenview, IL: GM&O Depot

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DaVe Durham posted seven photos with the comment: "Chicago & Alton Depot, Green view, Illinois."

Richard Fiedler: Used to be a craft store or something like that years ago. Looks vacant now.

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The depot got moved. I found it because of the school in the background of this photo.

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The grain elevator is big considering ICG pulled rail service a long time ago.

Street View

Street View, Jul 2013

And chemicals are an important part of modern agriculture. Liquids on the left, gas in the middle and applicators in the right background.

Street View, Jun 2023

This is the first time I've seen a town in Illinois that has an AGCO dealer but doesn't have a John Deere or CaseIH dealer.

Street View, Apr 2025

Street View, Apr 2025

Dennis DeBruler commented on DaVe's post
I wonder when the depot was moved, https://maps.app.goo.gl/v2gqCa4uaRUJa9PC9. 1949/49 Mason City Quad @ 62,500

Thomas Scoville: Dennis DeBruler, it was moved in 1984.

Davenport, IA: Classic Cars Dealer/Texaco Gas Station

(Satellite)

Retro Quad Cities posted
Firestone Tires and Texaco gas at 3rd and Pershing in Davenport as seen in 1952.  The building hasn't changed much since then, now housing Klemme's Klassic Kars.

Bill Handel: The Quad-Cities has more surviving antique service stations than most places. Has anyone compiled a directory of them all?

Tim Ryherd: Classic art deco.

The overpass on the left is the IAIS/RI just north of the Government Bridge.

Street View, Jul 2025

Harry York, Oct 2024

They have all ages of classic cars. These two photos are a small sampling.

Klemme Klassic Kars, Nov 2025

They also have a display of old gas pumps and toys.

Brad Wiese, May 2023

This has a better view of the glass-cylinder pump.

American Marketing & Publishing, Aug 2019

The glass is tinted, so this is the best view of the pumps that I could get.

Street  View, Jul 2019