Edgewood, IL: IC+B&O Depot and Grain Elevator

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Street View, Jun 2023

David Cantrell posted two photos with the comment: "CN Edgewood Yard building has a new coat of paint. Second photo shows former B&O right of way facing towards Flora [Southeast]."

John Petit: no more Sandstone & Chocolate Brown? [See Bob's photo below as to what these colors looked like.]

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Kevin Keller commented on the second photo

Bob Kalal commented on David's post
Edgewood IL B&O Depot 1983
Jim French: Bob...it's and IC building not B&O, though the operator did control the IC/B&O crossing there.
[And it still has the trainorder semaphores.]

The grain elevator is fairly big, and it is owned by ADM. I would 

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I wouild expect ADM would want rail service. And the elevator does have a fall protector. But the rail siding is very short.

Street View, Jun 2023

Looking closer, the fall protector is over a driveway instead of the siding. So I guess ADM does not have rail service.

Street View, Jun 2023

Just southwest of town is the junction for the Edgewood Cutoff. I think it is weird that two double-track routes funnel down to a one-track mainline. (The northern track in the upper-right is the siding for the elevator.)

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