Depot: (Satellite?)
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| Sam Carlson posted Tower RA (N&W) at Reddick, IL on June 15, 1982. Sam Carlson posted again Reddick, IL, though on the radio they always seemed to say it as two words. It's where the Wabash crossed the NYC's Kankakee Belt about 15 miles west of kankakee. The Wabash is gone now; as the NS decided to trade the maintenance costs on that route for trackage rights over the IC - now CN - and their shitty dispatching. Harold J. Krewer Wasn't a branch, this was the Wabash's Chicago-Decatur main line. Crossed the Tip-Up at Forrest, then ran trackage rights over TP&W to Fairbury to reach the branch up to Pontiac and Streator. Brian Voss I have to wonder how many hundred times NS wished they had never disposed of the Wabash main... Sam Carlson When I was hauling crews, sometimes I'd have to go down to Otto (from Chicago) to dogcatch NS crews. Yeah, most of them bitched up a storm. But some liked it, because they could collect tow-in time, extra hours, final terminal time, and a host of other paycheck enhancing add ons. "If I was on the Wabash, I'd be running an engine now. Instead I'm getting paid big-time to sleep in the back of this van!" Mark Egebrecht Sam Carlson You mean Otto Junction where the IC Bloomer Line merged up with the IC New Orleans Main? Sam Carlson Yup. Sometimes the NS trains just parked on the siding; other times they'd shove around the wye to get in the clear. |
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
Karl Zumwalt posted two photos with the comment: "RA tower Reddick Illinois."
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| 1, cropped |
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| 2, cropped |
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| Thomas Dyrek commented on his post below | Here's a shot of the tower from John and Roger too. |
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| Thomas Dyrek posted The depot at Reddick, Illinois on an unknown date. John and Roger Kujawa photo, Thomas Dyrek collection. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Thomas' post This one has me stumped. The depot and tracks appear to be perpendicular to the road, so it should be the northern crossing in the town. And it shows that the depot was on the right side of the road. But the only building I can find in the aerial is on the left side of the road. And there would be a grain elevator in the background. 1940 aerial photo https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/livingston/flight1/000v7a050.jpg |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Thomas' post I could not find it in this aerial either. 1939 aerial photo https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/kankakee/flight7/0bwv03074.jpg |
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