Towns and Nature: Chatsworth, IL: IC Depot & original grain elevator and Shell and Standard Gas Stations Still Standing

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Chatsworth, IL: IC Depot & original grain elevator and Shell and Standard Gas Stations Still Standing

Roger Kujawa posted
Chatsworth IL~Illinois Central Railroad Depot~Grain Elevator~Passengers~c1912
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Roger Kujawa posted
Illinois Central Chatsworth, Illinois depot postcard.
Dennis DeBruler Given the word "Shortlines" in the group title, it is worth noting that this town still has both of its railroads because Bloomer Lines operates the former IC route and the new TP&W operates the former TP&W route.
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Roger's post
Not only does this illustrate that a grain elevator was generally the other major building built in a new town, this grain elevator appears to be still standing!
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That town goes on the field trip list to get photos of the elevator.

In fact, it appears the depot is extant because it is now the scale house for the elevator!

Street View, Mar 2022

Noah Haggerty posted two photos with the comment:

Here's something a little different -- a before and after!
The Santa Fe donated caboose #999654 to the town of Chatsworth, Illinois, in 1987, who wished to have the car painted back into its original look at Toledo, Peoria & Western #523. The Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad helped to repaint the caboose. It saw excursion use on both the Bloomer and reincarnated TP&W, before being put on display a few years around the mid 1990's.
As for these two photos, the pre-repaint is likely around the winter of 1987, putting the post-repaint a year or two later. Both were taken along the Bloomer Line in town.
John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.

Old Gas Stations

Jim Roepke posted
We stopped in Chatsworth, Illinois, on our way back from Missouri and found two vintage gas stations. A vintage Shell and a vintage Standard station, both on E. Walnut St.

I think this is the first time that I have seen Pepsi instead of Coke at a filling station.