New Depot: (Satellite)
Gas Station: (Satellite, talk about the old and new, the parking lot has an EV charging station.)
I don't understand why the high-speed rail upgrade needed a new depot. I'm glad the building lives on as a home for the local history museum.
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Bill Molony posted A southbound Chicago & Alton Railroad passenger train arriving at the depot in Dwight, Illinois. The Dwight depot was constructed in 1891; while the building no longer serves as a train station, it still exists on its original site and houses the local history museum. |
When I accessed this town later for another depot photo, Google Map displayed a photo of this station. More on this station after the depot stuff.
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Bill Molony posted The Chicago & Alton depot at Dwight - circa 1915. |
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Bill Molony posted The Dwight, Illinois depot as it looked in 1975. |
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Robby Gragg Flickr |
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John Smith posted Dwight IL Depots and Roundhouse for Chicago Alton |
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Richard Fiedler commented on John's posting |
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Will Hazen commented on John's posting Former Depot |
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Will Hazen commented on John's posting Present Depot |
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Nick Hart posted After working industries further north, UP LSF54 is highballing it south back to Bloomington Yard. In the process it, it passes by the classic, Chicago & Alton depot in Dwight. Located just over 70 miles south of Chicago, the depot was built in 1891 and serviced passengers from that point until 1971, and again from 1986 until 2016. When Amtrak's new station opened a few blocks away in 2016, this depot became a museum and community center. The two usual GP60's have the short local well under control, with the classic Southern Pacific painted #1066 leading. 03-30-22 |
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Joseph Tuch Santucci posted Keith Meacham: Well! It's Dwight there! |
This is the "signature photo" that Google Maps chooses for this town.
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B Madden, Sep 2021 |
Obviously, it is an old station because of the pumps.
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Lee Lundberg, Jan 2020 |
But it is modern in that it was built on the outskirts of town to be near the US-66 bypass. Of course, I-55 now bypasses this bypass.
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Oliver Richter, Jul 2015 |
I saw an Oct 2018 photo of someone pumping gas. Since these pumps are older than the ones used during my childhood (1960s), I knew the mechanical pumps did not have a digit for dollars/gallon. So do they now pretend that the tenths-of-a-penny digit is pennies, the penny digit is dimes and the dimes digit is dollars? Back when gas was 16-cents/gal, the 9/10ths of a penny game made some sense. Now that gas is back over $4 a gallon, subtracting 0.1 cent so that the advertised price looks a penny cheaper has become rather silly. Can you imagine that a fill up would cost less than 10 dollars?
I wonder what brand of gas they pump. Texaco nor Chevron is not generally available in this area.
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Zoomed in on a photo by Saurabh Upadhyay, Jun 2021 |
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Daniel Bovino posted Get your kicks on Route 66 ~ Dwight Il. ~ Filler up with super chief and check the oil ~ Photo by Dan Bovino ~ They haven't sold gasoline for about 8 years [as of 2014]. The cost of upgrading the tanks was to much. It's a museum now (road side attraction). Kathleen Van Eck Adamson: "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star!" Paul Jevert shared with the comment: "Texaco 2 pumper at Dwight." |
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