Rock Island, IL: Rock Island Depot, Freight House, Express Building and Division Headquarters

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The Rock Island depot is still standing.

Street View

Bill Molony posted
The Rock Island's station in Rock Island, Illinois was constructed in 1901. Today, this building houses the Abbey Station banquet hall.

 

Keith LaMay posted
Rock Island depot Rock Island Illinois

 

Fans of Rock Island Lines posted
OK Rock Island illionis depot. Still in use today as a restaurant.

Ron Scharer posted
Rock Island 296 leads a slug and another U boat past the Rock Island, IL station on an eastbound freight. Date not recorded when scanned, mid 1970's. My photo.

Marty Bernard posted
Duane Hall photo, Oct 1989

 

Noah Haggerty posted
A billboard to promote restoration of the Rock Island depot built in 1901 in Moline, IL, maybe around the early 1990's? On the billboard, an illustration of an EMD E-unit locomotive sits behind the depot. John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.

Chuck Boehm: That's the Rock Island, IL depot.

They did a nice job of restoring the clock tower.

Street  View, Jul 2019
Dennis DeBruler commented on Chuck's comment
And they brought it back better than it was because they restored the clock tower. https://maps.app.goo.gl/veTJd3YfyxUttvvG9

Abbey Station, Dec 2017

Marty Bernard posted
Duane Hall photo, Oct 1989
J Pete Hedgpeth: Division Supt office upstairs and IRC Express on lower level...now gone.
Stephen Crews Wylder: This is the old baggage/express building, which was razed at least a dozen years ago.

Retro Quad Cities posted
The Rock Island Lines depot and freight house in Rock Island, taken shortly before the railroad's demise.

The baggage/express building set just east of the depot.

William Shapotkin posted

One of the challengers of buying or obtaining slides from others is that sometimes no information is given on the slide mount as to what/where/when the photograph was taken. This is one such slide:

As it turned out, this is not a C&NW or MILW station at all -- it is the ROCK frt house (located east of the station) in Rock Island, IL. I appreciate all the efforts a number of you made in identifying same...as stated, when you acquire slides from other sources and they are unmarked in any way, it is all-too-easy to forget (assuming you knew at the time it was acquired) what the subject is.

Slide bears an August 1991 processing date. Photographer Unknown/William Shapotkin Collection. (Shapotkin773)