Bryn Athyn, PA: Post Office/Reading Depot

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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.

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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).

Sipple, MT: Just Wood Grain Elevator

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Street View, Sep 2022

Daren Genau posted two photos with the comment: "Sipple, MT along the former Milwaukee Road, now BNSF line."

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Not only isn't there a modern grain elevator to replace this one, there isn't a town because I don't think there ever was a town. There was just the grain elevator.

1954/1966 Roundup Quad @ 250,000

A connection has been built between the GN and Milwaukee routes so that only the southern part of the Milwaukee route is abandoned.

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Keddie, CA: Lost/Western Maryland Railyard, Backshop and Roundhouse

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When I think of Keddie, I think of the Keddie Wye. But it makes sense that the wye was named after a nearby town.

Rick Shilling posted
1946 Western Pacific Railroad Roundhouse, Turntable, Shops and Yard, Keddie, California. Eastman's original collection, UC Davis University Collection.
[Behind the roundhouse is a small backshop. Note the tank cars behind the backshop. I wonder if they had to haul water here to supply the steam engines.]

Terry B. Carlson commented on Rick's post
Keddie Roundhouse now.

What this map marks as Keddie is labeled as Cabin 26 on Goolge Maps. 

1950/52 Greenville Quad @ 62,500

Actually, Cabin 26 is in the northern part of Keddie. The town is spread out along the river. The railyard is now the light tan area near the center of this excerpt.

Satellite

The roundhouse was on the east side of the railyard.

Nov 27, 1946 @ 37,400; AR1CQ0000030181

Note that the wye had its third leg in a tunnel.

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Winnett, MT: Just Wood Grain Elevator

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Street View, Sep 2025

Daren Genau posted two photos with the comment: "Winnett, MT."

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Most towns with a wood elevator also have a more modern elevator. But this town has just the wood elevator.

Street View, Sep 2025

Since this town was on the end of a branch on the Milwaukee, it probably lost rail service a long time ago.

1954/73 Lewistown Quad @ 250,000

Jasper, MN: Destroyed Grain Elevator and Modern Feed Mill

Elevator: (See below for a satellite image that I got while it was still standing.)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

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Jim Morris posted

Ron Minor: This was a active shipper on the BNSF up to a couple of years ago. Is it going to be replaced?

John Harker: I remember when this was poured in 1980 ,I believe.

I worked with some guys that helped pour it.

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The final part of the Jasper Elevator structure was successfully brought down during the second round of demolition

Tom Foster: So sad, once was one of best elevators in SW, Mn.

It was a rather large grain elevator.

Street View, May 2024

It even had rail service. Removing a wood elevator is all to common, but removing concrete silos is very rare.

Street View, May 2024

This is probably the locomotive that we see in the background of the above view.

Street View, Jul 2025

Some of the bins had already been removed by 2025.

Street View, Jul 2025

Satellite

The town still has a feed mill.

Street View, Aug 2025

1967/68 Jasper Quad @ 24,000

Commerce (Los Angeles), CA: UP East Los Angeles (UPLA) and BNSF/Santa Fe Hobart Railyards

UP Yard: (Satellite)

UP Roundhouse: (Satellite, long gone.)

UP Backshops: (Satellite, long gone.)

BNSF Yard: (Satellite)

Today, both yards are intermodal yards. Although the UP yard does have an engine servicing facility about where the backshops used to be.

Railroad Repair Shops and Roundhouses 1850-1950 posted
Layout of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake subsidiary of the Union Pacific at Los Angeles as they looked in 1927. (Railway Mechanical Engineer)

1926/1939 Alhambra Quad @ 24,000

An addition was added to the erecting shop building.

1966/68 Los Angeles @ 24,000

Jul 30, 1952 @ 23,600; AR1VP0000180011

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Dennis DeBruler commented on the post
Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5jDMthm7Vgr1zuX97.
Research: https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2026/06/commerce-los-angeles-ca-up-east-los.html

"East Los Angeles Yard (UPLA): Situated in the City of Commerce along East Washington Blvd, this massive off-dock yard handles the bulk of domestic and international containerized cargo coming from the ports." [Google AI results]

The AI did a good job of combining information from PortsOfLosAngeles and wheree. UP's webpage is also of interest.

Lotus, IL: Junction: IC vs. Wabash

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The IC branch that this town was on was the former Havana, Rantoul & Eastern.

Andy Zukowski posted

The Wabash & Illinois Central Crossing in Lotus, Illinois

The former Wabash's Chicago to Bement line crossed an Illinois

Central branch that ran east-west between Leroy and Potomac.

This photo was taken 12/31/80, and at the time the Wabash was under N&W ownership and the IC was under the ICG flag. The ICG had just started pulling up this line in the preceding weeks, but the diamond here had yet to be pulled. The view is looking northeast. Photo from the Barry Lennon Collection

Larry Candilas commented on Andy's post
IC line was originally built in 1875 as a narrow-gauge line and was owned by the Wabash for a few years before the IC bought it. MP 17.3 Rantoul District; 1960 aerial
[It looks like the tower was in the northeast quadrant of the crossing.

Sara Anderson Olson commented on Andy's post
Hard to tell. No sign of a cross track.

Thomas Scoville commented on Andy's post
The Lotus depot survives on a farm just west of where the diamond used to be. [I could not find it.]
Richard Fiedler: Thomas Scoville that’s the replacement for the wood tower that was once there. I’m thinking the tower was destroyed in a derailment but I’m not sure. The replacement served as a train order office and a depot agency.

Richard Fiedler commented on Andy's post

Richard Fiedler commented on Andy's post

Richard Fiedler commented on Andy's post

No street view driver has driven close to this town. I don't think the elevator has rail service because NS still owns the route and I can't see a fall protector, but the elevator is rather big.

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