Sweetwater, IL: C&NW Depot and Grain Elevator

(Satellite, just the foundation remains to the left of the signal box)

John Woodrow posted
C&NW at Sweetwater Illinois on Thanksgiving day 1959 (Edward Wayne Bridges photo)
Kam Miller: Station frame still there, siding isn't. View looking south here.
[To summarize some comments, by "frame," Kam meant "foundation."]

Kam showed the remnants of the depot in a comment.

1939 Aerial Photo via ILHAP

I was going to skip this town until I noticed that the town developed about a half-mile west of the depot instead of around the depot. That is very unusual.

Satellite

The town hasn't grown, but the grain elevator has grown a lot. That is not unusual. This is another example of an elevator that is so close, yet so far from the railroad because it is a Class I railroad (UP).

Satellite

I wonder what the crane is building on the other side of the trees.

Street View, Jul 2013

It is interesting that they skipped the concrete silo generation of growth and that they have a bunch of small bins.

Satellite