Danville, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot & Freight House, Bunge Hominy and Chevron Biodiesel

Depot: (Satellite, judging from an historical aerial photo, it was south of Van Buren St. and west of the tracks.)

Freight House: (Satellite)

Bunge: (Satellite)

Chevron: (Satellite)

I wrote about Bunge's main operation here.

 

Robert Daly posted
Postcard of Wabash station in Danville, mailed in 1910.
Gary Tetley posted buildings designed by architect Theodore C. Link, FAIA.

Andy Zukowski posted
Wabash Railroad Depot in Danville, Illinois. 1976
Richard Fiedler shared
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Kenny L Watson posted two photos.

1, cropped
This pic of the past, taken at the main street crossing in Danville Illinois, was posted by another member a while back. I just happened to be here and thought I'd get a present picture taken from about the same spot. Sorry it's not a day time pic.

Kenny L Watson: That is taken from the north side of main street looking south . Tilton yard would be about 3 miles on west of here. .

2

There were some sidings to serve the freight house.

1949/60 Danville SW Quad @ 24,000

I can't believe the number of homes that have been removed to provide land for industry near the downtown area.

1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

By 1977, the homes had been removed for a new version of the mill. But the homes had not yet been cleared for the Chevron biodiesel plant.

Apr 29, 1977 @ 40,000; AR1VEJE00010178

The new mill had already been built by 1965.

Oct 25, 1965 @ 24,000; AR1VBHJ00010056

 

1950 Danville (NW, NE, SW & SE) Quads @ 24,000

 

1978 Danville NE Quad @ 24,000

Street View, Jun 2023

A Google Maps label is Bunge hominy loading bay. I could not find any thing about hominy on Bunge's website, but I did find that they sell hominy and white corn meal in 50lb bags on AllBulkFoods.

At least some of those 50lb bags are shipped in containers. And this photo provides another view of the pneumatic trailers that we see in the above street view. Are they used for shipping white corn meal?

A Davis987, Jul 2021

Is this hominy being shipped in open trailers. It doesn't look like the trailers have hopper bottoms like grain trucks do. I wonder how they are unloaded.

Facebook, cropped

At least the third one in this line has hopper bottoms. I came across some comments about truckers having to wait 15 hours in a line to get loaded.

john odell, Feb 2022, cropped