Liverpool, IL: United Electric Coal Dock and Railroad

(Satellite)

(Update: the dock for the MWRD sludge barges that were used to fertilizer MWRD's farmland were also here. [Joe Schaub comment on a post] That experiment failed because the plants absorbed the heavy metals that were in the sludge. Now the farms are used for runoff prevention research and the sludge is used to repurpose land such as garage roofs (Maggie Daley Park) and slag pits into parks.)

Justin Curless posted three photos with the comment: "United Electric Coal Docks Liverpool illinois along the illinois River Terminal."

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The terminal was east of Liverpool.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The above cropped to photo resolution

I was lucky because I looked at a 1939 photo first because it did not exist yet in a 1938 image.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

It is interesting how much the inside of the river's curve has filled in since the late 1930s.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Satellite

The sandbar has grown past the loading dock.

Satellite

Once again, AJ Grigg's abandoned railroad map makes it easy to research abandoned coaling facilities. The green north/south route on the right side of this map north of the dock was the UECC, United Electric Coal Company Railroad.

AJ Grigg

The northern part of the railroad also served the tipple for their Buckheart Mine. The start date of 1937 would explain why the dock was not in the 1938 image but was in the 1939 image.

Update: It looks like there were at least two generations of equipment at the loading dock.

Justin Curless posted
Buckheart Coal Mine Coal Docks Liverpool along the Illinois River.

Justin Curless posted
United Electric Coal Dock Liverpool Illinois.
John W Newlun My Grandfather was the tug boat captain for the mine for years. He retired with 42 years at at Buckhart .