La Salle, IL: CB&Q Depot and Freight House

(Update: This depot was on the Illinois Valley & Northern Railroad branch of the CB&Q.)

Gary Sams ->  Illinois Central Charter Line

Gary's comment: "La Salle, Illinois CB&Q Depot and Train." One of the comments for this picture was of interest:

Harold J. Krewer Those gates were manually operated from the depot well into the 60s. When the operator went home, he hung "GATES NOT WORKING" signs on both sides of the crossing.

The train is blocking the view of the freight house that was west of the depot.

Gary Sams ->  Illinois Central Charter Line

The color photo would be the older one because of the cars and because it still has a train order signal by the bay window for the agent's desk.

1926 Sanborn Map, Sheet 6

Both buildings were on what is now a storage yard between Chartres and Creve Coeur Streets and the Rock Island on the north and the Illinois Railway/Illinois Railnet/BNSF/BN/CB&Q/Illinois Valley and Northern Railroad on the south.

Both buildings were still standing in a 1939 aerial photo:

Aerial Photo from ILHAP

William Wozniak posted

Update: William's comment:

Elgin Joliet and Eastern West End Local....End of April, Early May 1980..LaSalle IL....The LONG GONE BN Depot behind this train...Dave Woz photo.

I'm sure glad he pointed out the BN/CB&Q depot or I would have missed that. This would be a view of the northeast side.

William Wozniak posted
Chessie System in LaSalle....1982...Dave Woz photo...The GP-15T's have started showing up....Not sure where the Conrail(3rd engine) is being towed to.
[Rock Island depot on the right, CB&Q depot on the left, and Westclox on the hill in the background.]

William Wozniak posted
Another Chessie Train with switchers enroute to the Iowa railroad company...1982....LaSalle...Dave Woz photo..
[A corner of the depot is on the right, and the CB&Q tracks are in the middle of the picture.]

William Wozniak posted
Special train in LaSalle along The Rock......1982..Dave Woz photo

William Wozniak posted
Quad City Rocket going through LaSalle...BN depot behind the train..1978...(d. woz)
Brian Ehni Two E-units to power a 2 car train. Sad commentary on the reliability of them by 1978.Harold J. Krewer Actually, it wasn't a reliability issue. Toward the end both the turntables at Rock Island and Peoria were bad order and no way to spin the loco, so they went in back-to-back pairs. Not like they didn't have enough spares sitting around.

Harold J. Krewer commented on a posting
This station was a half-block west of the Rock Island depot (where you COULD catch a train to Chicago until 1978) and on the other side of the RI main line, sitting between the RI and CB&Q/BN tracks.
Here is another Dave Wozniak photo from 1982 showing the relationship between the two buildings. The RI depot is at right with the Chessie train in front of it and the BN depot is visible directly above the train.

Harold J. Krewer I changed the date on the above photo. It can be no earlier than late 1982 as the Chessie train has GP15Ts pulling it and the switchers dead-in-train would be heading to the IRRC at Bureau, which didn't exist prior to July 1982. [It was 1981.]

Christie Pasieka posted

Pam Broviak: I could be wrong but I tried to make a visual of what I am seeing. Hopefully you can get to this link where I tried to point out features I am thinking I see. On the 2nd page of this I pasted sections of the Sanborn maps showing a ravine at the end of 2nd in LaSalle but none at 4th in LaSalle where there are homes on both sides of the road at 4th and to the south. https://www.canva.com/.../PIacqSGLkJIDkQUhNrpscA/view...

See link in Pam's comment above

June 1980 Flickr photo from the BN track side.