Rock Island, IL: CB&Q and Rock Island Roundhouses

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There are more notes on the Rock Island facilities in "Rock Island Facilities and CB&Q Roundhouse."

Marty Bernard posted
 CB&Q 9266 at the Rock Island, IL roundhouse on September 18, 1964. She was a SW7 built in July 1950 and became BN 132. In my photo she is showing her "Way of the Zephyrs" side.
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Marty Bernard posted

I Like This Simple Scene

CB&Q 9266 at the Rock Island, IL Roundhouse on September 18, 1964.  She was a SW7 built in July 1950 and became BN 132.  She is showing her "Way of the Zephyrs" side.  "Everywhere West"  was always on the fireman's side.

Gary Siefken: Looks like the International Haverster-Farmall plant is in the background which was in Rock Island

Marty Bernard shared

Sam Sandoval: Thank you for the share I remember that 100 % a old heavyweight observation was the office next to the engine house I The Rock Island yard . Till 1992

 

Retro Quad Cities posted
The roundhouse for the C.B. & Q. Railroad in Rock Island between 5th Avenue and Sylvan Slough in 1972.

On the east side of the railyards, the CB&Q paralleled the Rock Island. On the west side of the yards, the CB&Q connected to the Davenport, Rock Island and North Western (DRI&NW), which was jointly owned by CB&Q and Milwaukee.  The DRI&NW owned the Crescent Railroad Bridge, which is further downstream.

1953 Davenport East Quad @ 24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's photo, [AR1VCMH00010296]

Some remnants of the foundation are still visible: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1MmzndvzrEvDXfi67.

Note that the building was a poylygon rather than an arc. I included the parking lot of the IH Farmall plant because we can see some Farmall tractors in the background of Marty's photo. 1970 aerial photo

Rock Island had a roundhouse just south of CB&Q's "roundhouse."

Note the Farmall tractors parked in a lot in the background. The International Harvester Farmall Plant was just east of here. In fact, you can see the roofs of some of their buildings. Although I cannot reconcile the angles in Marty's photo with the angles in the aerial photo.

Digitally Zoomed

I got the 1970 aerial photo above because there was no Farmall parking lot close to the roundhouse in 1938.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

B.K. Bell posted
I believe this to be C.B.& Q. In Rock island Illinois, anybody? They have a depot there too but so does C.M.& St. Paul.

Dennis DeBruler commented on the above post
I doubt it. In this 1970 aerial photo, the top roundhouse is CB&Q and the bottom one is Rock Island. We can still see some remnants of the CB&Q roundhouse: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qTovwEc3pChz4neF8. The CB&Q did not have enough land for a "full circle" even if the roundhouse was built for smaller locomotives in the 1800s.

John E Bush: Dennis DeBruler But, Dennis, in your photo isn't the river seen at the top of the photo? Regardless, I'm glad to see this aerial photo. Is the photo of Rock Island, IL?

Dennis DeBruler: Yes, it is in Rock Island, IL. I dropped a pin on the roundhouse remnants, https://maps.app.goo.gl/1MmzndvzrEvDXfi67. Here is a 1938 aerial of that area, https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../00rs181526.jpg. (I discovered that you have to click the photo to get better resolution.)