Freighthouse: (Satellite)
L&N Depot: (Satellite, my guess based on the topo map below)
This is the kind of historic photo that just keeps giving. In addition to a lock and dam and an 1800s swing bridge, I learned about a grain elevator.
Dennis DeBruler posted two photos with the comment:
Kevin Lackey posted this Nov 1956 photo of a large tow at the downstream end of the Florence Canal in Florence, AL. One of the things that caught my eye was the grain elevator. I could not find it in a contemporary satellite image. Then I realized that the concrete silos have been replaced by steel bins. The treeline along the left side of the satellite image marks the abandoned Southern+L&N railroad. I've seen many instances where steel bins have been used to expand elevators that have concrete silos. But I think this is the first time I've seen bins replace silos.
Unfortunately, including the URL of the satellite image is an experiment with Facebook's artificial intelligence. I've learned that it is artificial, but not intelligent, because it deletes as spam my comments that include a Google Maps reference.
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The freighthouse is now an event space.
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| Rick Strickland posted View of the freight depot in Florence, Alabama. 1951 September Marshall Blair: Randy Hutcherson did they share this with L&N? Randy Hutcherson: Not that I can tell. The Southern came across the river and followed it into East Florence. The L&N came down from the north. The lines joined at a small yard just north of Huntsville Road that they shared. That yard is now 3 tracks and used by the Tennessee Southern from Columbia, Tn. It appears that there was a small passenger depot along the L&N line just south of Huntsville Road that was shared by both lines. It appears that the L&N freight depot was next to the L&N tracks just north of Huntsville Road on Railroad Ave. The L&N had a separate line that paralleled the Southern from the yard until the river. The L&N had rights over the Southern, across the Tennessee River bridge, to Tuscumbia. I have studied several old USGS maps from the teens through the 60s, and aerial photos from the 40s through the 80s and this is what I've come up with. Back in the day there was a lot of industry in East Florence, and quite a maze of tracks criss-crossing each other of the 2 lines. Jim Kelling shared Florence Alabama (Southern Railway) Dennis DeBruler: Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/stfTAUkaJK6Yxgor5 |
Judging from street views, the freight house was restored between 2013 and 2019.
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| Street View, Jun 2023 |
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| Dale Proctor posted L&N tracks close to the Tennessee River in Florence Ala., April 1989. |
Southern and L&N evidently shared tracks on both sides of town but had their own tracks in town. Some maps label the route that goes through town as Sounthern and others label it L&N.
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| 1958 Florence Quad @ 24,000 |
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