El Paso, IL: Depot and Crossing: IC vs. TP&W

(Satellite, not the original location)

Jim French posted

Jim's comment:

EB TP&W crossing the Gruber at El Paso, IL (Spring 1980). The rear end of TP&W's EB road freight pounds across the ICG's Amboy District as they charge toward the Conrail connection at Logansport. Note that the conductor is ready to snag a set of orders hanging from the Iron Man at the depot. Between the Tip-Up and the ICG, El Paso could still see as many six to eight trains a day back in 1980.

The IC Gruber (original charter) line went through the middle of the town and is now the El Paso Walking Trail.

Erik Coleman Huh, searchlights on the IC? How common was that on the Gruber?
Jim French While I'm no J Roma when it comes to signals and nomenclature, and I could be off on some of these, here's what I recall with regard to IC Amboy District signals. 

>East Jct - mix of US&S R3's and TR3's.
>East Jct northward approach signal - US&S R3
>Woosung siding South spring switch indicator - US&S R3's
>Amboy CB&Q - US&S R3's
>Amboy southward distant signal - fixed semaphore
>Amboy northward approach and siding South end spring switch indicator - US&S R3
>Mendota CB&Q home signals - Lower quadrant semaphores (replaced with BN spec searchlights in 1979-80).
>Mendota southward distant signal - fixed semaphore.
>Mendota Milw Jct switch and CBQ approach - US&S R3
>Mendota northward approach and siding South spring switch indicator - US&S R3
>Dimmock CNW - Lower quadrant semaphores? 
>Midway to Tonica ABS - US&S R3's
>Tonica siding north end spring switch indicator - US&S R3
>Lostant NYC - NYC spec GRS trilights (including distant signals)
>Wenona GM&O - don't recall type
>Minonk ATSF - US&S TP3 trilights 
>El Paso TP&W - TP&W spec searchlights (Don't know make) 
>Normal GM&O - Mix of US&S TP and R3's for approach and home signals.
>Normal to Bloomington ABS - US&S R3's
>Dean NKP/P&E - US&S TR3 trilights

Cliff Downey noted the Conrail caboose.

Robert Daly posted
El Paso, station and crossing of the IC and TP&W, August 3 1969.
Brandon Steinbach Still standing ?
Davis Shroomberg Yes, still there, but flipped around to the opposite side of the former IC. Now a museum dedicated mostly to Fulton Sheen, an archbishop and one of the first televangelists, who was born in El Paso.
Thomas Dyrek Built in 1899 as a freight house, later converted to a combination depot at an unknown date. Relocated in 1997.
Dennis DeBruler Melody Ozuna If it is TP&W, it has to be in Illinois: https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...

Flickr, 1972  Barry provides some history of the death of the Gruber line as a comment.