Today: (
Satellite, the TP&W route was moved to create a grade separation and reduce the curve.)
In addition to the TP&W, the roads have also changed a lot in this area. See the aerial photo at the bottom of these notes. The tower was on the east side and the depot was on the west side of the TP&W tracks.
Ross Brocksmith
posted two images with the comment:
We’ve been on a the road quite a bit with Mr Grassel. But why confine ourselves to roads? Let’s get on the rails with Mr Grassel’s volume more broadly titled Transportation.
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Radio Station & Signal Tower
Farmdale
10-16-1916
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OK, railroad aficionados…which railroad is this?
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Image Source/Credit:
Ernest Grassel Collection
Only seen in-person in the Local History Collection
Downtown Branch of Peoria Public Library
#peoriapubliclibrary #peorialocalhistory #ernestgrasselcollection
From Grassel’s volumes titled TRANSPORTATION
Richard Fiedler: I’ve seen this before. The Lake Erie and Western, today’s Norfolk Southern is in the left foreground. The Vandalia Railroad (Pennsylvania RR) is on the right and the Toledo Peoria and Western runs left to right between the tower and depot and crosses both.
[It shows some signalling pipelines.]
Richard Fiedler
shared with the comment: "LE&W depot and tower Farmdale IL."
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Richard's share
I had to go back to 1927 to find the Pannsy tracks you mentioned in the base post. It appears that Pennsy had a branch that terminated at this junction. 1927/55/ Peoria Quad @ 62,500
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