Chenoa, IL: Joint Depot: GM&O and TP&W and Junction (NX) Tower

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Bill Molony posted
The Toledo, Peoria & Eastern - Illinois Central Gulf (ex-Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) joint station at Chenoa, Illinois, looking west on the TP&W in 1975.

The GM&O is now owned by UP. This town is on both the old and new TP&W. The old one went from Keokuk, IL to the eastern Illinois boarder where it continued as a Pennsy line to Logansport, IN. The new one goes from Peoria to Logansport. The segment from Keokuk to Peoria is now owned by Keokuk Junction Railway.
Goerge W Lane posted a RailPictures photo without a link that includes the tower that was east of the GM&O tracks.

Bill Edrington Great photo. That's a very unusual train order signal for the GM&O. I'm guessing it replaced a standard Chicago & Alton semaphore-type order board at some point.

[One copy of the photo was dated Mary 1, 1963 and another was dated Aug 1966.]

Update:

George W Lane posted
Gulf Mobile & Ohio train March 1, 1963 Chenoa Illinois . Southbound mixed freight pounds across the TP&W diamond while the tower operator gives the train the once over. The tower and depot are long gone.

Rich Rhoades: I got this one it was taken Aug 1966.

[A good view of some signalling pipelines.]
Richard Fiedler shared

One of several photos posted by Eric Bergn case some people haven't seen these...photos from 1935 and by John W. Barriger III.

Bill Molony posted
The Chicago & Alton and Toledo, Peoria & Western depot at Chenoa, Illinois - circa 1920.

It was a lot smaller four years earlier. 

Andy Zukowski posted

Union Depot in Chenoa, Illinois. 1916

Photo by C.R. Childs

Richard Fiedler: This is the original Chenoa Depot.

I remember the original burned but don’t know when the brick replacement was built, best guess after 1920.

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John Stell: Joint C&A & TP&W.

George W Lane posted three images with the comment: "Chenoa Illinois 61726 1950's?  TP&W."

Robert Sullivan: TP&W was the east-west line. GM&O was the north-south line.

George W Lane: INTERCHANGES Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad (Chatsworth, Ill.); Canadian National (Gilman, Ill.); CSX (Reynolds, Ind.); Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad (Webster, Ill. and Sheldon, Ill.); Keokuk Junction Railway (Peoria, Ill.); Norfolk Southern (Logansport, Ind.); Tazewell & Peoria Railroad (Peoria, Ill.); Union Pacific (Sommer, Ill.; Watseka, Ill. and Chenoa, Ill.); US Rail Partners (Logansport, Ind.)

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Jeff Carlson posted

Well, after his beloved Rock Island shut down in 1980, it seems as if my dad was forced into foaming other lines instead. On an April, 1981 trip to Peoria with some friends from the Little Q model railroad club in Aurora, they stumbled upon this TP&W train pounding the old GM&O diamonds at Chenoa, IL. TP&W no. 900, one of their three GP35s was leading the 102 and 400.

Unfortunately, this depot was demolished in 2009: https://www.pontiacdailyleader.com/…/20091027/NEWS/310279950

Ken Carlson, photo
Brandon McShane The depot was a pigeon roost in later years.
Jeff Carlson Interestingly, I think that all three of these engines survive. The Alco is at IRM, the Geep was working some industry as recently as 2012, and the GP35 is at BNSF!

Brian Austin posted
Chenoa, IL (1997).