Elwood, IL: 1969 GM&O Depot

Depot: (Satellite, west of the tracks and just south of Mississippi Ave.)

Grain Elevator: (Satellite)
 

Owen Brockman posted
Chicago & Alton Railroad Station in Elwood, Illinois circa 1920s

Pete Zimmermann: Line was originally opened as the Chicago & Mississippi Railway in 1855

Richard Fiedler shared

Bill Molony posted
Owen Brockman posted
GM&O Depot in Elwood, Illinois. 1969

Pete Zimmermann: Formerly C&A. The line was originally built as the Chicago & Mississippi Railway in 1855.

 

Owen Brockman posted
Elwood, Illinois train depot in the early 1970’s

To still have train order signals standing in 1969 is rather late. I wonder if GM&O was still using train orders, or if the local maintenance men just didn't bother to take them down for several decades.

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago & Alton Railroad Depot in Elwood Illinois

This is a good view of the milk cans stored on the side of the building.

Owen Brockman posted
Chicago & Alton Railroad Depot in Elwood, Illinois circa 1900s

You can clearly see from the ramp to the door that the close end was the freight/package handling side of the depot. It is a rather plain depot --- I don't see any brackets under the side eaves.

Bill Molony posted
Ed Schloz: so many pictures of trains and depots...there is a grain elevator somewhere in the background...
[The train is southbound. The car on the left would be on Mississippi Ave.]

This is a higher resolution copy of that photo.

Owen Brockman posted
GM&O southbound "Abraham Lincoln," passing through Elwood, Illinois, in May 1970. E7 #102A and an F3B do the honors. Fifty years later, Amtrak "Lincoln Service" trains have shaved off a whopping ten minutes on the Chicago - St. Louis Corridor schedule. Photo Courtesy of Joseph Petric/ Flickr

Note the tops of the grain bins peaking over the passenger cars in the above photo. The foundations for these bins are still visible. Before they added the bins, they had expanded with what appears to be a bolted-steel silo.

Satellite

In 1939, they had just the concrete silos. (It is easy to find the concrete silos because of the long shadows and the headhouse on top.) And we can see the depot in the southwest quadrant of the crossing and the tracks.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP