Mazon, IL: Wood Grain Elevator and Derails

(Satellite)

Dennis DeBruler posted eight photos with the comment: "Mazon, IL, May 12, 2021    41°14'20.9"N 88°25'22.6"W."

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[The white building in the distant background that is to the left of the tracks was the Santa Fe depot.]

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Kevin Qualkenbush posted
Westbound BNSF intermodal as it passes the grain elevator in Mazon IL.

1 of 3 photos posted by HalstEd Pazdzior
LCHI105   8/9/22   Mazon

Chris Lastovich posted
Here are a few shots of that Herzog work train from Saturday 3/29. Both turbo charged EMDs sounded good getting up to speed.

Paul Springowski: That moment when contractor maintenance of way is using locomotives to circumvent hiring a crew for a work train, but calls a GP40 and an SD70M "power cars."

At any rate, nice catch.

Tracks to the elevator still exist. Looking at a satellite map, the siding by the elevator used to go all the way through town to around Joann Street.

Even though they are no longer connected to the mainline.

Since the derails are now useless, it struck me as strange that BNSF hasn't removed them so that they could be used somewhere else.