Elevator: (Satellite)
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| Roger Kujawa posted A lot of coal mined was used by the railroads that hauled it to power their steam locos. C.U. Williams RPPC C.&A. Railroad Coal Chutes & Water Tank At Tallula, Illinois |
A B&W exposure:
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| Roger Kujawa posted One of the biggest uses of coal was to power steam locos. Railroad Train Coal Chute Car & Water Tower Tallula Illinois IL John Pescitelli: What railroad would this have been? Roger Kujawa: GM&O Jacksonville line. Thomas Dorman: John Pescitelli Chicago & Alton James. Coaling tower probably built in 1902 by Link-Belt company. 70 tons capacity. Raymond Storey shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Roger's photo Some topo maps indicate that the sidings where on the southeast side of the mainline. So the grain elevator we see under the spouts of the water tower in the photo would be southeast of the mainline. Thus these towers were on the southwest side of town. The towers are in the lower-left corner of this extract of a 1939 aerial photo. They were West of Douglas Street. The depot was were the northern three bins of the grain elevator now stand. And the building across the tracks from the depot was probably the freight house. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4... https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/menard/flight3/0bxd01052.jpg |
The town has not grown much since 1909, but the grain elevator sure has grown.
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| 1909 Tallula Quad @ 62,500 |
This elevator strikes me as a large one for a town that has lost its rail service. The big bin on the railroad's right-of-way and the even bigger bin next to Yates Street indicates that the elevator continued to grow even without rail service.
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