Hoopeston, IL: CSX/L&N/C&EI and Aban/NW/NKP(LE&W) Union Depot

(Satellite, can still see the footprint in the southwest quadrant.)

Mitch Mitchell posted
Hoopeston Ill. C&EI RR and NKP RR You are looking down the C&EI RR South 1930

Note that Louisville & Nashville or CSX tore up the second track. The depot is gone and the world has yet another vacant lot. Historic Aerials shows it in the 1963 photo, but not in the 1998 photo. The 1985 topo map did not work correctly.

Update:

Roger Kujawa posted
NKP Nickel Plate Peoria Line and Chicago and Eastern Illinois crossing. 
Hoopeston, Illinois. View of Union Depot, Station. 1910s Postcard.

Steven Burns posted
Hoopeston Illinois, six miles north of Rossville, the passenger train depot, same rail to Chicago… What an absolutely architectural wonder, beautiful inside out… Was demolished in 70’s or early 80’s….

Pete Gossett: I have a few bricks from the Hoopeston depot that my grandfather made into doorstops. I’m pretty sure the dates say it was demolished in 1982. We used to have the dispatcher’s chair when I was a kid, but I have no idea what happened to it.

Many of my relatives worked for the C&EI. I remember seeing a newsletter from either the 1920’s or 30’s that showed my grandfather & his uncles on a C&EI bowling team in Hoopeston.

The EJ&E roundhouse was still standing as recently as 8-years ago, but I’ve not been back recently. I knew the guy who bought the property. He was going to demolish the other buildings because they were barely standing. He was unaware of the ~3’ tall “EJ&E” letters in the overgrown embankment in front of the office, but he was kind enough to remove them & donate them to the Rossville railroad museum, where they’re now displayed.

 

Comments on Steven's post

Roger Kujawa posted
Circa 1910 Hoopeston, Illinois. Crossing onf the LE&W later NKP and NW line tot Peoria with the C&EI.
Ken Morrison: SW quadrant

 

Thomas Dyrek commented on Roger's post
Here's a slide I have from J. David Ingles taken shortly before it was demolished.

C&EI shared two photos with the comment: "Chicago & Eastern Illinois Hoopeston tower, which protected the crossing of the C&EI and the NKP (nee-LE&W). The tower sat in the N/E quadrant while the union depot sat in the S/W quadrant. (C&EIHS photos)."

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1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP