Viola, IL: CB&Q Depot, NP Caboose and Lost Wood Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2013

Dawn Cianci posted six photos.

Marvin McGill Jr.: Back in the 70s when I worked for BN I was a head breakman I remember picking up cars here I moved back to Galesburg il 5 years ago stopped here did some walking down money land talked to the guy that owns this neat story behind the way car use to be on top of a hill over looking the old ATSF transcon out side of Knoxville il he bought it it was in bn green he moved it all this way repainted to the original car number and paint and logo I jad been gone about 30 years

Dick Reiners: Where is this?

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Dick's comment
West of 18th Street and a little North of 17th Avenue.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Dick's comment
The track remnant north of the depot was the mainline and the track remnant to the south was part of the house track.
1953 Viola Quad @ 24,000

4 of 5 photos posted by Michael Mannino with the comment: "Stopped in Viola on a beautiful day and took a couple pictures.  Can someone tell me when this line was decommissioned?"

Ron Hatch: This segment, Alpha to Joy, abandoned mid to late 80's. It was the last segment of a route that originally came off the CB&Q's Galesburg-Chicago mainline at Galva, crossed the Galesburg-Savanna line at Alpha, and ended at New Boston on the Mississippi River. A few miles east of New Boston was a junction (Arpee) where another branch went south, crossed the M&StL at Keithsburg, then joined the Galesburg-Burlington main at Gladstone for the final lap into Burlington. This was at one time a doodlebug run that the locals called "the Dolly"

Robert Sullivan: That red paint was distinctive on CB&Q small stations and buildings. Almost all are long since torn down

Richard Fiedler shared

Kevin Huggins: 1986 is when it was abandoned

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Kevin Huggins commented on Richard's share
1984, at Viola

Dennis DeBruler commented on Michael's post
1902 map, https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/.../knx_rail/id/298

The grain elevators in the foreground have been replaced by a modern building. The facility in the left background is Nutrien Ag Solutions.

Street View, Jul 2013

The replacement:

Street View, Sep 2022

Street View, Aug 2011
The old elevators were gone by Oct 2013.

Street View, Aug 2011

The "house track" was also the grain elevator siding. It passed just north of the old wood elevator. We can still see the base of the loading spout. The small bin sits on the RoW.

Street View, Jul 2013

The skeleton of a boxcar.

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