Depot: (Satellite, the property has been reused)
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| Dave Zeke Zellers posted Depot, Mount Morris, IL. Thomas Whitt shared |
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| Dave Zeke Zellers commented on his post Marty Bernard commented on Thomas' share See the depot and my car below [above]. Note the Western Union and Railway Express Agency signs. I don't recall handling a telegram at Mt. Morris and definitely handled no express. The CB&Q Mt. Morris Spur heads northwest 7 miles from the main line at Oregon, Illinois which is about half way between Savanna and Aurora. It existed because of a major printer in Mt. Morris that received paper and shipped magazines. I use the past tense because Google found me nothing to indicate any activity, but found a couple of pieces on shut downs. I substituted for the vacationing Agent in Mt. Morris, Illinois in early September 1964. I could find neither the depot nor the grain elevators on Google satellite maps. I could not find images of railroad cars on the tracks of the Spur. |
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| Dave Zeke Zellers commented on his post |
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| Larry Foht posted Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Depot Mt Morris Illinois The early home of Kable Printing, Kable News Larry Foht collection : |
Marty Bernard posted three photos with the comment:
CB&Q Mt. Morris, Illinois -- Depot and Train
The CB&Q Mt. Morris Spur heads northwest 7 miles from the main line at Oregon, Illinois which is about half way between Savanna and Aurora. It existed because of a major printer in Mt. Morris that received paper and shipped magazines. I use the past tense because Google found me nothing to indicate any activity, but found a couple of pieces on shut downs.
I substituted for the vacationing Agent in Mt. Morris, Illinois in early September 1964. I could find neither the depot nor the grain elevators on Google satellite maps. I could not find images of railroad cars on the tracks of the Spur.
Ray Schloss: Quad Graphics closed the plant in 2011. A casualty of less catalogs printed these days.
The town has been trying to market the plant for a distribution center or another mfg plant.
They promote it too as having rail access, so you never know...
Davis Shroomberg: The Mt. Morris branch was the original C&I, the Chicago & Iowa line. You can still trace it's skeletal remains to just south of Forreston, where it looks like it connected to the IC Gruber Line, though I seem to remember tracing it to Freeport at one time. If memory serves, it predated CB&Q ownership, and after the Q took over the C&I, they constructed the "bypass" at Oregon.
Brian Rackley
Hey Marty, Back on September 24, 1988, I caught the BN Mt. Morris local in town, and chased it back to Oregon. Here is a link to an album I made of the better shots. http://barackley.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx...
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Jack Fox: Used to switch there in the 80's and 90's until the BNSF sold the line to the Illinois Terminal in the 2000's. The auto looks like a 1962 Buick. That could be the back of my father standing there. He switched Mt. Morris on the Oregon switch back in the 60's and 70's.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post My first theory was that the depot was the rectangle near the top of this photo that is aligned with the tracks. 1983 Mount Morris Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post But then I noticed the smokestack in the background of the first photo. Here is a 1939 aerial photo. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post I marked in red where the grain elevator was and blue is the depot. The house tracks that used to go behind the depot were gone by 1964. |
Nice captions!
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