Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Normal, IL: IC+GM&O/Alton Depot and Junction Tower

"New" Depot: (Satellite, it has been replaced by civic+transit building.)
Old Depot: (Satellite, it is now yet another parking lot.)

H Ray Wilson posted
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad depot Normal, Illinois. I worked my first regular job here 3/11 PM Operator/Leverman Feb. 1967. (not my photo)
Richard Fiedler shared
Kerry Doyle: That strikes me as an IC architectural style.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Kerry's comment
Indeed, this must have been an IC+GM&O Depot. The side with the semaphores and ironman for train orders was along the IC.
https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/mclean/flight10/000x3a083.jpg

Update: This photo taught me about the tower.
Andy Zukowski posted
Illinois Central Railroad; Chicago & Alton Railroad in Normal, Illinois. 1912
Photo by C.R.Childs
Everett Lueck: AT that time the depot was in the southeast quadrant of the crossing, with the interlocking tower in the southwest quadrant. When the new depot was built in the northwest quadrant, it incorporated the interlocking plant as well.

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