Bluffs, IL: Wabash Depot, Roundhouse and Coaling Tower

(Satellite image is below)

Bill Molony posted
This is the Norfolk & Western (ex-Wabash) depot at Bluffs.
This was one of the very few Wabash depots that did not have a roof gable over the bay window.

Richard Fiedler commented on the above posting
Bluffs was where the branch to Keokuk and Quincy departed the mainline. Bluffs was also the last stand for Wabash steam where ancient moguls operated due the old spindly bridge over the Illinois a River at Meridosia. A Leased PRR 44 toner that replaced the moguls on the turntable at Bluffs. J Parker Lamb photo
Richard Mead This is the locomotive they would send across the bridge un manned...and pickup on the other side ?
Richard Fiedler I believe yes. The bridge was an ancient iron one and was rickety because it was hit by barges so many times. You could not double head on it nor exceed 10 mph. The 44 ton we was replaced by a SW until the bridge was finally condemned ending these practices and the line severed. Wabash then got trackage rights on the CB&Q to reach the trackage to Versailles north to Keokuk and Quincy.
Bill Edrington The branch from Bluffs to Meredosia was part of the very first railroad in Illinois: the Northern Cross, which began operating from Meredosia to Morgan City (near Chapin) in 1838. It eventually reached Jacksonville and Springfield and became part of the Wabash system.

The West End Spr/Hann dist page posted a similar image
Pic of the turntable at Bluffs. Just beyond the table is a GE 44 ton loco. It was used exclusively on the Meredosia Branch because of its light weight and restrictions on the Illinois River bridge.
Mark Lehn: Is the roundtable still there?
Richard Fiedler shared
Mark Stoeckel: The 44 tonner replaced the 2-6-0 steam locomotives that had been used for many years because of the Illinois River bridge weight restrictions.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's comment
I don't think so: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aUoRVBU8xxotZdt69. 1941 aerial photo.
[1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP]

This is the first time I have seen a small town with an active railyard, but the grain elevator has been torn down.

Satellite

But not all of the elevator is gone. (Note the caboose on the siding.)

Street View, Aug 2023

Karl Hauffe posted a question about where the roundhouse was located.

Richard Fiedler The bridge was an old iron not steel swing span that was weakened by being hit by barges over the years. There was not enough traffic to justify a new bridge so until 1958 or so operations evolved due to severe weight restrictions so that in its last years the moguls and or the 44 tonner were just operated over the bridge and not beyond. There were spur tracks on either side for the road locomotives (diesels) that would couple on and take the trains to their destinations.

Comment by Karl Hauffe on his posting
Karl Hauffe And could this have been the coaling tower location?
Dennis DeBruler Probably, the shadow has the profile of a coaling tower.
Dennis DeBruler It looks like the roundhouse was this clump of trees: https://www.google.com/.../@39.7516306,-90.../data=!3m1!1e3