Lewistown, IL: CB&Q Depot and Old Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Andy Zukowski posted

C.B. & Q. Railroad Depot in

Lewistown, Illinois. 1909

Richard Fiedler shared

Street View

Street Veiw

This satellite image shows that the concrete remnants in the left foreground in the above view were probably the foundations for steel bins.

Satellite

Jan Smith posted seventeen photos with the comment:

CB&Q depot & an elevator that was once rail served in Lewistown, Illinois. 10-8-22

CB&Q last passenger train was 1961. They probably used it after for freight trains until it merged to become Burlington Northern in 1970.

Elevator I need to dig up information on that. It's at least 100 years old.

The current tracks are inactive now and getting rusty. One rail was from 1922.

Fred Butt: Simpson and Powellson lumber yard used the depot in the late 60’s early 70’s for storage

At that time the elevator was as I remember mostly a feed mill feed store for Fulton FS

North of the old football field and bus barn was a stockyards off the rail

I remember helping in the late 60’s unloading South Dakota feeder calf’s onto Louis Bush from Havana semi’s to haul them to feedlot.

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Jan's post

The CB&Q used to have two routes through this town.

1925 Havana Quad @ 62,500

But a 1948 topo shows that the route that left town going straight south and then went to West Havana was already gone.