I have no clue as to the current location.
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| Robert Petersen posted Building was torn down mid-60's. Railroad line looking west was no longer used after 1962. Kevin Huggins: This Depot survives, was there until track was removed, then depot was moved a couple miles SW of Garden Plain, out by a private pond. [After I added my comments below, the following comments were added.] Kevin Huggins: The lines through Garden plane originally was the main line of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, it went Northwest to Fulton Illinois and then Northeast to a junction called Ebner. Then they built the new main line that went out along the bluff from Fenton North. The garden plane Branch became a branch line, originally went to Fulton Illinois then it went back to just Garden Plain in 1962, Garden Plain had a lumber yard, with inbound wood products, and a anhydrous plant for the farmers that would receive inbound anhydrous ammonia in tank cars, they also had coal delivered their back in the old days of heating with coal, but all that business dried up in the early 1980's. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Robert's post It looks like the foundation might still exist: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8047165,-90.1262887,126m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu. The map on the right is the one with a date of 1985. So if it was abandoned before then, it would have been close to 1985. 1976 Clinton and 1985 Union Grove Quads @ 24,000 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Robert's post The town grew up by the road instead of the depot. That is rather unusual. The town didn't have a grain elevator, so I wonder what kept the branch active into the 1980s. 1939 aerial photo, https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/whiteside/flight5/0bxj03023.jpg |
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| Robert Petersen commented on the above comment The farm I grew up on, bordered the track further Northwest of Garden Plain, but before you reached East Clinton. The last commercial use by C.B. & Q on that section to the track was 1962. I remember each road it crossed as I went to school in Garden Plain from 1959-1967 including where it crossed Hwy 84. Many years before I can remember there was a Roundhouse in East Clinton. Also, where it crosses Hwy 84 is about 1/4 mile south of where the Chicago Northwestern track crossed 84 and continues to Clinton Iowa using the railroad bridge crossing. Picture from car bridge (Route 30) which parallels the bridge. Kevin Huggins: Robert Petersen The Roundhouse in Fulton Illinois was originally a Chicago Northwestern property, at one time it was the largest roundhouse in the world. It had 60 tracks, but closed in the late 1930s because it became obsolete, as engines were getting larger. |
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| 1958 Davenport Quad @ 250,000 |
This map shows that the route through Garden Plain was the original route through the area. The cutoff to the east that goes over the C&NW must have been added later.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Robert's post Garden Plain was on the original route through the area. I wonder when the cutoff to the east was built. https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/knx_rail/id/298 |
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