Alpha, IL: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Junction: CB&Q vs. CB&Q

(Satellite, the replacement building has also been torn down.)

Marty Bernard posted

CB&Q STATION AT ALPHA, IL ON JUNE 19, 1966

Woodhull - Joy line (with gate across) crosses Savanna - Galesburg main. Roger Puta photo

Fred Lewis: There was a local that started there up till the early 80s. The “Alpha Job” had some tall seniority on it so I only saw it on rare occasions off the extra board.

Mark Adler posted
Andy Zukowski posted "CB&Q Depot in Alpha, Illinois. 1963"

Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's post
CB&Q had both routes through town. The smash gate is across the now abandoned east/west route. The depot was on the east side of today's tracks and south of E Street.
 https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/henry/flight15/00ru272316.jpg

Andy Zukowski posted
Railroad Train Station in Alpha, Illinois, 1908
Andy Zukowski shared

larry Candilas commented on Andy's post
A few years later
[I had noticed that the depots looked different.]

1953 New Windsor Quad @ 24,000

Andy Zukowski posted
CB&Q Railroad Depot in Alpha, Illinois. 1975
Thomas Whitt shared

Kevin Huggins: Set up for a previous diamond, I would have thought the long portion of the depot would have been on the main line at the short side of the depot would have been on the branch line. Oh well, you can see the connecting track and behind the depot.

Paul Schmidt: New building. Probably came down in short order.

Nick Barman: Paul Schmidt new depot was torn down around 2018-2019.

I worked m o w in Alpha starting in the 70s the old depot was gone by then.

Richard Fiedler shared

Given Nick's date of 2018, I checked out the street views. The building in the photo must have been the old depot because this building is parallel to the main tracks. The photo at the top of these notes that was posted by Marty also confirms that Andy's photo is of the old depot.

Street View, Jul 2013