Saturday, July 9, 2016

Delavan, IL: Historic Postcard, Junction and IC & GM&O Depots

These locations are guesses based on the depot photos and the aerial photo.
IC Old: (Satellite)
IC, 1928: (Satellite, the land is now part of a storage unit.)
GM&O Old: (Satellite)
GM&O New: (Satellite)

Note the old grain elevator on the right side of the photo.
Roger Kujawa posted
Found this old Post Card of Delavan at the flea market.

CN/IC still goes through town. ICG abandoned the Chicago & Alton route. A connector from the IC to the C&A is now an industrial lead for an elevator that was along the C&A.

The IC was the east/westish route whereas the C&A ran north/south through town.
1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Update:
John Woodrow posted
ICG (Peoria district) crossing GM&O (Jack line) Delavan Illinois about 1973 (Wayne Bridges photo)
Bill Edrington: Thanks for sharing this. GM&O #1520 is stopped at the westbound home signal on the “Jack Line“. (Actually it was also an ICG unit by this time.)

Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post
The building in the northwest quadrant with the bay window must have been GM&O's depot. It is consistent with the L-shaped building in this 1939 photo.

Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post
Page 55 in https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/.../delavanbicent...

1942/49 Delavan Quad @ 62,500

Andy Zukowski posted
The Illinois Central Railroad and the Chicago and Alton Railroad Depot’s in Delavan, Illinois. C.1910
Photo by C.R. Child’s
William Shapotkin: Just for the heck of it, which depot is for which railroad?
Richard Fiedler shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on William's comment
Because of the grain elevator in the background, GM&O is on the right and IC is on the left. IC built a new depot in 1928, and I think the GM&O built a new L-shaped depot on the old IC property by the date of this aerial photo, which is 1939. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ILLRRHISTORYBUFFS/posts/3702937163265756/ (GM&O is the north/south route with lots of tracks and IC is the east/west route with just one track.)
Bill Edrington: The L-shaped replacement depot at the crossing of the Alton/GM&O and the IC was jointly used by both roads, and was staffed by a joint agent. It was equipped with train order boards for both roads. To the best of my knowledge, the building visible along the Alton tracks just north of the joint depot in the aerial photo is the old C&A/Alton depot, which was torn down at some point.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Bill's comment
Thanks for the correction. I thought that the L-shaped building looked like a joint depot. I was confused by this caption about an IC station that was used until 1969. Maybe it was used as the freight station. The source is https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/.../delavanbicent..., page 55.

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