McDowell, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot and Grain Elevators

Depot: (Satellite, a guess because it was gone by 1940.)

Historic Elevator: (Satellite)

Current Elevator: (Satellite, Becks seed corn instead of normal grain storage.)

Richard Fiedler posted seven photos with the comment: "Wabash depot McDowell IL. Originally constructed by the Fairbury Pontiac and Northwestern (Chicago and Paducah) in 1872. When passenger service Forrest to Streator ended around 1930 the depot was sold to a farmer and it still resides on that farm south of McDowell in good shape."

Richard Fiedler shared

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Dennis DeBruler: Note the boxcar by the grain elevator in the background. The covered hopper was not developed until the 1960s, https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../carrying-grain... And back then, one carload at a time was normal.

[The wood grain elevator would have been across the tracks from today's elevator remnants.]

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It was the Wabash Railroad.

1939/39 Pontiac Quad @ 62,500

Dennis DeBruler commented on Richard's post
It was on the Wabash branch to Streator. 1888 map: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wabashrrhistory/posts/6763361643698750/

What I thought was a rectangle parallel to the tracks is the "historic grain elevator." The wood grain elevator is already gone.

1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP