McCook, IL: Santa Fe Depot

(Satellite)

Bill Molony posted
The Santa Fe depot at McCook - undated.

Satellite

Looking at a 1974 aerial photo, the white parking lot in the satellite image was probably the land of the depot and its parking lot.

Carl Venzke posted
ATSF F7A 306 with Train 1, The San Francisco Chief, passing through Mc Cook, IL on January 2, 1967. Photo by Roger Puta
Bill Molony shared
Santa Fe F7A #306-L leads train #1, the westbound "San Francisco Chief," past the depot at McCook, Illinois on January 2, 1967. Roger Puta photo.
[McCook Yard is in the background.]

Andy Zukowski posted
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Doodlebug passes the Depot in McCook, Illinois. 1949.

Ned Carlson: That'd have to be the "Pekin Chief", right? (although I've seen it on the Dearborn departure board as "Pekin Express"0

James Brown: Ned, yes, this can only be the Dearborn-Pekin motor car, or doodlebug. The train was listed as No. 13 "Motor" in the employee timetables. It had a mid-afternoon departure from Dearborn. The ATSF ended motor car service in Illinois in Apr 1955.

Jerry Smith: I did ATSF Doodlebug out of Appleton to Streator and Smithshire in 40s.

Scott Griffith posted
my father Jim Griffith took these. Chicago Ridge
Bob Lalich The bottom photo looks like the ATSF station at McCook.
Thomas White ...and I'm certain it is.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Bill Molony posted
Another view of the Santa Fe station at McCook.

Robert Daly posted
The ATSF station at McCook, January 10 1970
Michael Buckley Was a busy depot at the time . Interchange from IHB plus all the industry’s around . Had the IC ( Wobbley) came down from sanitary district along north side by 9 c bridge to MCCook then west of depot had crossing over IHB main along Vulcan material all the way to old GM Yard aka Willow Springs Yard .
[Looking at a 1938 aerial, I noticed that the tree line is where the Chicago & Illinois Western used to run.]

BRHS posted

safe_image for a Terry Spirek Flickr link

McCook Crossing April 86

This was the last time I saw This structure before Santa Fe knocked it down.

Rob Olewinski Cmraseye posted
McCook, IL Summer of '73 on the Transcon before the junkyard dogs chased me out.

Ken Rehor commented on Rob's post
In 1980 I shot a photo of a guy climbing aboard a U36C at that exact location! https://flickr.com/photos/39095736@N00/41548401714/

Marc Malnekoff posted
The Mc Cook Depot.
Mc Cook, IL. circa 1985

Jerry Jackson commented on Marc's post
I'm not sure of the date, but a few weeks after I took this one, it was down. The small creek that ran N/S wasn't filled in for a few months after. The post in the photo was part of that bridge.

Jerry Jackson commented on Marc's post
That bridge.