Tower: (
Satellite)
Depot: (
Satellite, Rawhide Meat now uses the land)
Freight House: (
Satellite, the land is now used by a couple of restaurants)
P&E = Peoria & Eastern
The Peoria & Eastern became part of the Big Four, which in turn became part of NYC. The P&E was the east-west route and the north-south Big Four route was the
Egyptian route. According to the 2005 SPV Map, the P&E route is now NS and the Egyptian route is now CSX; but according to a USGS map, both routes are now CSX. These two routes shared a segment in Danville along which was a depot, freight house and small railyard. Wyton tower was where the two routes joined on the southwest side and the depot is where they joined on the northeast end of the segment.
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Robert Daly posted
Big Four (Peoria & Eastern) depot at Danville. |
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Robert's post
On this topo, you can see the rectangle for the depot in the northwest quadrant of Vermillion Street and the tracks. 1950 Danville NW Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
From left to right, the red rectangle highlights the tower, blue is the freight house and yellow is the depot.
Darren Reynolds
posted six images with the comment: "NYC Wyton tower. (Wyton Interlocking) Danville,IL Photos by: Carl Wallenmeyer"
J.D. Cooke: Tower/Cabin set on the west side of Danville, Illinois where the NYC and the P&E split....lasted thru the 1980/s while the Milwaukee/Soo Line used trackage rights Chicago to Terre Haute, Ind....Early 1990 they moved over to the CSX for the same route.
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[Note that the engineer has his arm out to catch the string in the train order hoop that has been mounted in an iron man. The lower hoop is for the caboose crew.] |
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[Note the storage of the two train order hoops.] |
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