Coal Co.: (Satellite?, it is long gone. I could not find it on a
1939 aerial photo.)
Depot: (
Satellite, the depot was removed to make room for IL-137 and an extension of Washington Street.)
These retail coal silos help me understand how important anthracite coal was for heating homes until the mid-20th Century. These images also document the state of truck development by the end of the 1920s.
Roger Kujawa
posted two images with the comment: "RYNKSEL COAL COMPANY WAUKEGAN ILLINOIS LETTER DATED OCTOBER 5 1929"
Paul Meier: Very common in my youth, then came fuel oil and gas. I live in Kenosha, WI where there were numerous coal dealers with rail service.
Kerry Doyle: The silos/elevators were a common form into the 50’s, then disappeared for reasons Paul Meier cites
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I presume this was their original facility in Waukegan instead of Janesville.
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Andy Zukowski posted
C&NW Station, in Waukegan, Illinois. Taken between 1901 and 1906. |
Larry Foht
posted two photos with the comment:
Chicago North Western Railroad Depot
Waukegan Illinois
Date: 1934
Ritzman Photo
Larry Foht collection :
[According to some comments, the depot still existed in the 1970s, but the bridge and the passenger platform had been removed.]
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[Looking South. Note the water plug in the foreground and the coaling tower in the left background.] |
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[Looking North. Note the water tower under the bridge that would supply the water plug.] |
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| 1960 Waukegan Quad @ 24,000 |
Because of the bridge over the tracks, it is easy to identify that the depot was halfway between Madison and Water Streets at the end of Washington Street.
But the area has changed a lot to make room for IL-137.
I can't explain why such an old building would exist where I think the depot used to be.
In regards to the photo “such an old building”, that is the Andrew Carnegie Library and was built in 1903. The train station was east of it at the end of Washington Street in the 60’s. The station basically sat on a bluff, you would buy you tickets and have to go down stairs to board the trains.
ReplyDeleteSide note: Mrs. Rynksel owned the Bella Casa apartment building at 1425 North Ave., Waukegan in the 60’s. It still had coal fired boilers and the Rynksel coal trucks would pull in and deliver coal. I know this as I grew up next door to it.