Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Depot: (Satellite)
Rock Island Depot?: (Satellite, it appears the CO&P interurban had a bigger depot than the Rock Island Railroad) I can't believe that no street view driver has visited this town.
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| Roger Kujawa posted New Jersey Zinc Company DePUe, Illinois Illinois, Bureau County c1940s Postcard. Rock Island had access to this plant and possibly the New York Central. Ken Hejl Rock Island switched the plant. New York Central also had access to the plant via a spur down from the yard at Howe. Milwaukee had a yard on the south side of the Rock. Cars were interchanged with the Rock who took them into the plant. Roger Kujawa Here is a tidbit about the DePue and Northern and how they tried to get a break on coal shipments to an imaginary station on the D&N. https://books.google.com/books?id=kbRLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187... [This is a reminder of why I generally avoid law and regulatory issues in industrial history. I think the zinc company should have paid $0.75 per ton of coal shipped to it from a C&EI served coal mine instead of $1.30.] Roger Kujawa shared Tom Meyer I am guessing NYC Property Kankakee Belt got in there on their way up to Ladd? Roger Kujawa Tom Meyer Yes. I’m hearing the Rock Island switched the plant. Dale Burkhalter NYC delivered to Howe & Rock Island took to the plant. |
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| David Thompson commented on Roger's post Dennis DeBruler I found it as the 1966 Depue Quadrangle @ 1:24,000. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Roger's share The plant did not exist in an 1893 map. The Indiana & Southern became the Kankakee Belt of NYC. 1909 Hennepin Quadrangle @ 1:62,500 |
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| Barriger rihogger: DePue with the zinc works to the left. Now...a Superfund site. [Note the old grain elevators on the right side.] |
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| Sam Carlson posted Let's see another CSX GP15T, this one at DePue, IL on 7-10-96.. The white buliding in the background was adepot/ substatiion for the Chicago Ottawa & Peoria but now it's the library. |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Rock Island Depot in Depue, Illinois. C.1910 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post Depots are a lot easier to locate when they are still standing, https://www.google.com/.../@41.3248939.../data=!3m1!1e3... According to Sam Carlson, the depot east of Depot Street was for the interurban. His comment on his photo: "Let's see another CSX GP15T, this one at DePue, IL on 7-10-96.. The white buliding in the background was adepot/ substatiion for the Chicago Ottawa & Peoria but now it's the library." |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Rock Island Depot, Depue, Illinois. C. 2015 Robert Sullivan: Is that an it depot/substation in the background.? Andy Zukowski posted again but with different colors Rock Island Railroad Depot (RAZED) & Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Interurban Depot’s in Depue, Illinois. Jacob Frost: April, 2017 Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Harold J. Krewer replied to Roberts question Definitely a former CO&P combination depot/substation, originally built by predecessor Illinois Valley Rwy., then already under McKinley influences as the architecture shows. Now the town library. Here it is back in the day: |
I found the grain elevator that is in the depot's photo, but I could not find the two grain elevators that are in Barriger's photo.
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| 1941 Aerial Photo via ILHAP |
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