Creston, WA: Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2025

The elevator is getting rail service. I wonder if the former Northern Pacific route is now owned by a shortline. Yep, a map labels the route as Washington Eastern Railroad.

Street View, Sep 2025

Robert Houtwed posted
High Line grain company in Creston, Washington 5/24/2026.

Shane Friederich: Nice to see the SOO hopper too.

Byron Kuehl: Shane Friederich, captive service...there's a few working in those scoot trains to Four Lakes WA.

[Four Lakes has loop tracks so it can load unit trains.]

1950/50 Wilbur Quad @ 62,500

And the town receives ag chemicals by the car load.

Street View, Sep 2025

Lost/Pennsy Hegewisch Depot

(Satellite, the houses east of Mackinaw Ave. were built later.)

Chris Goepel posted
Pennsylvania depot at Hegewisch, Illinois, circa 1910 (Chris Goepel collection).

Larry Candilas commented on Chris' post
Found a station on an 1892 map - could this have been it?

Chris Goepel: Larry Candilas I believe the location you have circled is correct.

Bob Lalich commented on Chris' post
Here is a Barriger photo of Hegewisch Junction taken when the interlocking tower was in service. The view is north - RR west. The Calumet River RR is seen in the distance diverging to the left. The track on the right is the Wolf Lake/Hammond Branch. The track in the left foreground was a depot house track. The depot would have been behind the photographer. I believe that the photo was taken when passenger trains were still running on the Wolf Lake/Hammond Branch.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/15596871112/in/album-72157640554237773

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Niota, IL: Lost/Santa Fe Depot

(Satellite, based on the aerial photo and topo map below.)

Patty Peterson posted
Niota Depot (1979 Sites and Structures of Hancock County)
Richard Fiedler shared

1964/65 Niota Quad @ 24,000

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Bridge closures in 2026 are planned for Mar 4 - Jun 26 and Sep 21 - Nov 20. [FortMadison]

Satellite

Chase, IN: Damaged Grain Bins

(Satellite)

There were several tornadoes identified in Northeastern Indiana that happened Jun 11, 2026. Severe weather tends to happen in Summer, but that is when many bins are empty because room is being made for the next year's harvest.

I think this is the first time I've seen bins ripped completely ripped off their foundation. Normally, "just" one side is caved in.

Chad Evans Weather posted
Chase Elevator (between Boswell & Oxford) in Benton County from severe t'storms last night.  Pic from Christine Byrne.

Jeff Hauert commented on Chad's post
Judyville, IN

Comments on Andy's post
[When I looked at a map of tornadoes that were identified from that storm, the highest I saw was EF3.]

This is one of those towns in the midwest that has a lot more grain bins than houses. The railroad is KB&S/NKP/LE&W.  This is on the LE&W route that went from Sandusky to Peoria.

Satellite

 KB&S is a shortline, but it appears that it does not serve these rather big grain elevators.

Street View, Aug 2024

Street View, Aug 2024

Street View, Aug 2024

I got multiple views trying to verify that the big bin that remained standing was a bolted-steel bin. This view confirms that. Looking at Chad's photo, the bin not only survived the wind, it survived a couple of bins collapsing on it with just a some damage to its roof.

Street View, Aug 2024

Hazel Green, WI: Old Gas Station and Grain Elevator

Gas: (Satellite)

Elevator: (Satellite)

In addition to the old pumps under the canapoy, they have an older pump on the left side next to the tires.

Street View, Aug 2025

It looks like the elevator sells a lot of seed.

Street View, Jun 2025

Vintage Gas Stations posted two photos with the comment: "This gas station is in Hazel Green Wisconsin stil sees lots of activity going on there when I drive by once or twice a week."

Ron Joseph: That’s Symons' Auto Center in Hazel Green.

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Todd Buell, Oct 2019

Todd Buell, Oct 2019

I can't believe that the town didn't have any rail service in the 1950s.

1952/54 Cuba City Quad @ 24,000

I'm even more shocked that it never had rail service.

1902/02 Meneral Point Quad @ 125,000

Galva, IA: Two Wood Grain Elevators

(Satellite)

The silos and buildings on the right side of the former C&NW right-of-way probably store various chemicals for spreading on fields. There appears to be a feed truck on this side of the wood grain elevator.

Street View, May 2024

Wesley Peters posted

Ida County Loses its Last Wooden Elevator.

Galva, Ida County, IA.

Galva Union Elevator Co. Early history unknown.

Demolished before April 2026 (extact date unknown).

Photographed on 6/18/2024.

Photo courtesy of Wesley Peters.

Hopefully, the more modern grain elevator is extant.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Wesley's post
It was still standing in Jul 2025, https://maps.app.goo.gl/FyrR5HyiGyqsdZc88.

I was not aware of the Hubbard animal feed company.

Digitally Zoomed

I saved the satellite image since this elevator will be disappearing.

Satellite

1969/71 Galva Quad @ 24,000

Bryn Athyn, PA: Post Office/Reading Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2023

Metrotrails posted two photos with the comment:

Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania station on the former Newtown Branch of the Reading Railroad.

The line was an important commuter connection between Newtown and Philadelphia, but SEPTA didn't want to run diesels any more, and let it go.

Now, it is part of the Pennypack Trail, with more sections under development. This station still serves as a post office.

Many argue that the trail wasn't needed because there is a trail immediately parallel with the entire route from Betheyres south, and closer to the creek. Still, the trail is more heavily used than the average rail trail.

Ed Bombaro: When SEPTA was forced to inherit the railroad division operations from ConRail in the early 1980s they were unhappy as they didn't want them. SEPTA thus had a slash and burn policy of any railroad services that required significant investment and or required diesel operations. Today the Philadelphia region suffers because of SEPTA's shortsightedness and the city is disconnected from growing northeastern and western suburbs.

Metrotrails shared

Sam Pickard: The old platform canopy was destroyed when a tree fell on it last summer. The station house’s roof was also severely damaged, but has been repaired.

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Doug Leach commented on Photo 1
And an in-between:

Gene Gibbons commented on Metrotrails post

A little bit of history:

"The Bryn Athyn train wreck occurred on December 5, 1921, when a head-on collision occurred on a single line of track near Bryn Athyn station in Pennsylvania. The collision resulted in a fire and claimed 27 lives while injuring 70 others." (Source: Wiki)

Full story on Wiki ... PLUS, a very interesting video by Tom Lynskey on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_TD9bgCrSo

Charles Banks, Sep 2024

Bryn Athyn does have a SEPTA station, but it is south of town on an east/west Reading route.

1950 Frankford and 1952 Hatboro Quads @ 24,000

Henry The Collector, Jan 2021

It seems that SEPTA still owns most of the depots along the abandoned Reading track. The first station I found along the trail was Huntingdon Valley Station (SEPTA).