Willow Island, NE: Wood Grain Elevator and UP Depot

Wood Elevator: (Satellite)

Original Depot Location: (Satellite?, you can see the siding in the aerial photo below, but I could not find a rectangle between the siding and the main line)

Current Depot Location: (Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2023

Cory Jakeway posted

The once bustling town of Willow Island Nebraska. Is home to this once used, but now abandoned grain elevator which sets alone along the very busy main line of the Union Pacific Railroad. 

Photographed: April-2023

Mike Bartels: Willow Island dated from the early days of the UP. The depot is now at the Dawson County Historical Museum in Lexington.

This is the kind of small, railroad created town that may have more bins than houses. Especially if you count the feed mill that is west of town.

Satellite

This is the feed mill.

Street View, Aug 2023

I wonder if this is a commercial elevator or a farmer's elevator. Most farmers don't have their own scale. But this is rather small for a commercial elevator.

Satellite

The depot at the historical museum.

Albis Guzman, Sep 2022

May 8, 1951 @ 17,000; AR1MK0000120014