DeMotte, IN: Moved/NYC Depot

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Current: (Satellite)

1 of 4 redundant photos posted by Industrial Belt Railway

I went back to DeMotte, Indiana this afternoon and got a few photos at the Historical Society located at 112 Carnation Street SE, Demotte, IN 46310

They moved the old New York Central Depot to the park and added a Caboose on display. I hope you like it. As always, thanks for looking.

Tim

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DeMotte Historical Society Celebrates 20 Years in 2017
The depot was moved in 1998 and opened as a museum in 2001. The caboose was purchased from Terre Haute, IN, in 2002 and opened on Oct 18, 2003.

DeMotte Historical Society added 12 photos with the comment: "Caboose Museum Displays 1.0."

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I included the grain elevator on the left. It seems the elevator did not survive in this town.

Apr 1, 1952 @ 28,400; AR1UJ0000010035

Neither topo map marked the depot correctly. Neither web site had the other topo map.

Old USGS topo web site:

1957 Demotte Quad @ 24,000

New USGS topo web site:

1959 Demotte Quad @ 24,000

Flager, CO: Wood Grain Elevators, Larger Elevators and Fertilizer

Wood: (Satellite)

Wood and bolted steel: (Satellite)

This straight truck is like the one I used to drive on my grandfather's farm. I thought it was an honor when they allowed me to take a load of wheat to town. But then I learned how long you have to set in line at the elevator.

Street View, Sep 2023

John Bord posted

The old tin clad still being used

Flagler, CO.

John Bord shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on John's share
An elevator on the east side of town is also interesting. It is four bolted-steel silos with a wood headhouse. https://maps.app.goo.gl/o2DVtrKT8jKfL2D46

Look at all of the liquid fertilizer trailers.

Street View, Sep 2023

The tanks in the foreground probably hold liquid fertilizer. I think the bins in the background are for dry fertilizer rather than a feed mill.

Street View, Sep 2023

Next to the bins is a building to hold a lot of a dry product. Potash?

Street View, Sep 2023

Given all of the chutes coming down from the legs, this is probably a feed mill. And do the bags on pallets in the building hold seed?

Street View, Sep 2023

There was a short cut of hoppers at the grain storage facility and an even shorter cut at the fertilizer facility, so I investigated the ownership of the railroad. Sure enough, this former Rock Island is now owned by a shortline, specifically Kyle Railroad.

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There is more grain storage east of town, but I guess that is owned by a farmer.

Street View, Sep 2023

Greenwich, KS: Wood Grain Elevator and Buzzi Unicem Cement Distribution

Elevator: (Satellite)

Cement: (Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2023

2007 is evidently the first year that Google dispatched street view technology. (They seem to have done another effort for good coverage in 2023. I have seen quite a few small town views lately that were taken in 2023.) The resolution in the 2007 views is not as good, but the trees were smaller.

Street View, Aug 2007

Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "Greenwich is our next elevator community as we continue westerly on the former Missouri Pacific line into the northeast part of metropolitan Wichita Kansas.  Has been many decades since this old timer was in service.  Does not look like the railcar loading spout was modified in order to fill the top loading covered hopper cars that the railroads introduced for grain in the early 1960’s. Few people, if they did not know it was there, would notice it amongst the overgrown vegetation. No idea on the history of this one.  Photographed 2019."

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The greenfield cement distribution plant west of town has enough sidings to hold a unit train.

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I found what may be a trackmobile that they would use to move the hopper cars so that UP just has to deliver and retrieve the trains. UP doesn't have to help unload them.

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This view confirms that they have a trackmobile. The old ties we see in the above street view of the elevator and in this view indicates that UP is spending some money on track maintenance. A fixation on stockholders, PSR and Operating Ratio tends to kill maintenance activity. This plant did not exist in an Oct 2012 view.

Street View, Jun 2023

They had a red trackmobile in 2019.

Street View, Aug 2019

St. Paul, MN: Northern Pacific Backshops, Water Tower and Coaling Tower

Transfer Table: (Satellite, 891 photos)

Street View, Jun 2019

Street View, May 2023

10 of the 35 images posted by Cody Wangen with the comment: "Built in 1885 and being the np s major car shop east of the rockies to help service and maintain its 1100 passenger cars it consists of 4 major buildings all still very much intact . The cross shaped building being the wood shop to build and replace the wood sided passenger cars. The building next to it with the large array of Chimneys was the original blacksmith shop were anything and everything could  be repaired and manufactured.  The large buildings in the middle with the turntable are the car shops with 1902 transfer table.  It also includes the water tank snd sanding tower. It is beyond cool that such a huge complex was saved and not turned into a parking lot and is now a hotel you can stay In that were staying in tonight. All these bricks are yellow colored coming from little falls mn the same place the np shops in Brainerd got they're bricks from. If your ever in como park in st paul I'd highly recommend stopping here and checking it out it is really neat to sww it all preserved."

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Cody's post
1953 St Paul West Quad @ 24,000
Transfer Table: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gvz2UXJjs5BzcVrX7

Oxford, NE: CB&Q Roundhouse and Depot

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Allen R. Quig commented on a post: "Do you have any pictures of the old round house in Oxford?"

Gary Schroeder replied with two images:

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The roundhouse footprint is still visible.

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Thanks to the first image above, I know this was the depot.

Street View, May 2012

Gary Schroeder posted eight photos with the comment:

Today, September 7, 1962, I went to work at the Chicago Burlington & Quincy depot in Oxford, Nebraska.. 

The hours were 8pm to 5am with Tuesday and Wednesday off . The rate of pay was $17.32 per day for eight hours.. 

The big doors on the South side of the depot were the entrance of the baggage room and still the same doors.

Retired 45 years and 51 days later in October 2007.. 

Some changes were made in the waiting room located in the West end of the building  but the rest of the building is the very close to the way it was sixty three years ago.

Alice Weatherwax: I always loved going to the depot to see my dad. And I thought I had a really good voice so I would go out in the waiting room and I would dance and I was saying cause it echoed and I thought that was pretty cool ! And the way back I would climb up on the green carts with the red handles and dance up there. Then there will be times when there would be a cream can't explode the top off and it would smell like sour cream. it was horrible and yes, I remember going to the ice Cappas. We had so much fun. Also, mom would take us Gerald and I to Holdridge a lot on the zipper and we could spend our allowance and then we would ride the zephyr back home and that was exciting. I would always spend my money on a doll that had the longest hair and then I would go home and cut it off. Then I went to the real deal and cut Kathy Spangrud's long curls off , they went to her butt, but not when I got done, boy was her mom mad! I should've known way back then I was going to be a hairdresser for 50 some years.

Thanks so much for sharing Gary. You brought back a lot of memories for me. !

Gary Schroeder shared

Clyde Davis: What Dispatchers did you work with?

Gary Schroeder: Little history first. I was drafted into the Army in May 1965 and discharged May 1967.

When I was at depot in Oxford Fred Putman was afternoon dispatcher and Leonard Bath was midnight dispatcher.. The midnight Chief was probably your dad Jerry Davis..

When I got out of the Army in 1967 I bumped in call office at McCook. I worked Saturday and Sunday during the day and the Esst dispatch was Wayne Thomson and West Dispatcher was Don Kennedy and day Chief was Gene Bush. Monday was 4pm to midnight. Fred Putman was on the East end and Jim Riestein (sp) on West end.. The afternoon Chief I can’t remember. Tuesday and Wednesday I worked midnight to 8am. Leonard Bath on East end and Jerry Davis West end.. The night Chief was Chuck Bush..Vern Nylander, Ray Thomas, Ray Rose,Gene Bush were relief dispatchers protecting rest days. Extra board was Marv Potthoff from the relay office. The Chief dispatcher was Mel Miller who passed in October 1969 and Wayne Thomson became chief dispatcher then..

I went into train service in August 1969 . I had seven years of seniority as a clerk when cuts were made upstairs in the main office and I couldn’t hold a job in McCook.. John Pohl the train master talked me into going into train service where I finished my time on the railroad. End of story.

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Street View, May 2012

Oxford is on the BNSF/CB&Q mainline between Chicago and Denver.

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The topo map accurately marks the location of the roundhouse and depot.

1959 Hollinger and 1960 Oxford Quads @ 24,000