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Joseph Tuch Santucci posted, cropped
A long abandoned grain elevator south of Odell. This sits adjacent to today’s Union Pacific Joliet to St Louis route which in previous lives was the Chicago & Alton; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio; Illinois Central Gulf; Chicago, Missouri & Western and Southern Pacific. Study these carefully as there will be a quiz later and spelling and neatness will count.
Dennis DeBruler: Between C&A and GM&O, B&O named it just Alton. |
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Joseph's post
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Frank Prager posted
Abandoned grain mill on Old Route 66 between the towns of Pontiac and Odell in Illinois.
Jeff Lewis: Cayuga, Illinois. (pronounced Cayoogee)
Ellen Lambert: I remember hauling lots and lots of loads of corn and beans in that narrow and I mean narrow door, and most of the time unload my self while the only guy there was busy weighing the empty one and next in line. |
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| Andy Kelleher commented on Frank's post |
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| Kevin Qualkenbush commented on Kevein's post |
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Amy Hallmark commented on Kevin's post
Here's what it looks like on the inside... |
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Ken Morrison
Pulled off old Route 66 and I spied the ancient and slightly relocated Cayuga, IL C&A depot (Amtrak/UP tracks far left) |
Kevin Qualkenbush
posted two photos with the comment:
This picture was taken April 5th 1965 in Cayuga IL at the grain elevator that sits along what are now the Union Pacific tracks from Chicago to St Louis. The second picture is the grain elevator i took a few years back.
Picture of the train from Andy Kelleher.
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Note the quad gates in the left background. That is for the high-speed passenger service for which taxpayers gave a lot of money to UP. But after spending a lot of money, we still don't have high-speed Amtrak service.
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Joseph's post
Those transmission lines probably follow the route of the former Bloomington, Pontiac & Joliet Electric Railway. Those transmission lines were the state of the art in terms of voltage when interurbans were going bankrupt. |
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