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| Dan Tracy posted Nice Southbound kicking up the snow going through Manhattan in February of 81. Note the pigs on this train. Stan Stanovich: ...for what it’s worth Dan Tracy, when I worked out of Calumet regularly late 2004 through spring 2009, the trackage rights over I.C. Decatur-Chicago trains were still running. Though I do not recall his name, I became acquainted with one of the engineers. He told me that prior to the line being severed that there was “talk” of dedicated intermodal service between Landers in Chicago and either St Louis or Kansas City via Decatur. The next thing they knew, the route was cut!!! Richard Fiedler: Stan Stanovich I was told by a former track inspector that abandoning the route helped N&W “meet their maintenance budget”. Very short sighted in my humble opinion. Ron Wesolowski: Lots of speculation on that back then... minimal on line business... some curvy stretches that would be high maintenance... Staggers Act was eliminating interchanges.... primary traffic was Ford .....IC had excess capacity with coal falling off other mergers killing off the St Louis interchange for the IC |
I'll call the elevator in the distant background the North Elevator and the close one the South Elevator. I think the elevator in Dan's photo above is the North Elevator.
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| Michael Riha commented on Dan's post Here's a photo of the tower for reference. |
The North Elevator is out-of-frame to the right. The South Elevator is near the center. And near the left is an elevator that is served with a spur of the CM&G.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Dan's post The grain elevator in the photo caught my eye. It is interesting that it survived into the 1980s. Michael Riha's photo shows that there were at least two elevators along the Wabash track. And this aerial photo posted by Bill Molony shows that another elevator was served by the CM&G. This photo is also in DeBruler-JunctionTower |
The South Elevator is in the foreground and the CM&G Elevator is peaking out from behind the coaling tower.
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| DeBruler-CoalingTower Rechard Fiedler commented on a post In the foreground is a grain elevator but to its left and across the Wabash main is their coaling tower that was demolished sometime after steam was retired in the summer of 1953. Behind the coal tower is another grain elevator on the Milwaukee (CM&G). I believe all elevators there are long gone. |
The South Elevator is peaking out over the depot roof and left of the water tower.
The blue, yellow, and orange rectangles highlight the North, South and CM&G Elevators, respectively. Red shows another tall building because it also has a long shadow. But I have not been able to figure out what it was. Did the town have four grain elevators? Since I researched what I had on this town looking for views of the "red rectangle," I learned some other details, from north to south:
Purple: Wabash Depot
Black: Wabash Coaling Tower
Green: Junction Tower
Brown: CM&G Depot
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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