Friday, April 12, 2024

Olds, IA: Abandoned/C&NW/M&StL Depot and Wood Grain Elevators

Depot: (Satellite
Old Elevator: (Satellite)
New Elevator: (Satellite)

I was going to skip this small town until I noticed that part of the old elevator is extant.

John Harker posted
M&StL F3As 248A and 248C on an eastbound freight were photographed by Sanford Goodrich doing some switching at Olds, Iowa on May 29, 1954.

The depot would have been in the right foreground.
Street View, Sep 2013

I started with the higher resolution aerial photo. But when I saw that the depot was already gone, I got...
Nov 30, 1973 @ 22,000; AR1VDIW00010235

...an older, lower-resolution aerial. We can clearly see a building between the tracks and Railroad Avenue and west of Main Street. So that is Main Street in the foreground of John's photo.
Nov 17, 1950 @ 70,000; ARA000700232169




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