Putnam, IL: Lost/Rock Island Depot and Grain Elevator

(Satellite, it was just west of the mainline and halfway between Courtland and Douglas Streets. Google Maps won't allow me to drop a pin in an accurate position because it goes to the nearest existing building.)

Andy Zukowski posted
The Rock Island Train Depot in Putnam, Illinois, 1965
Richard Fiedler shared

1933/33 Lacon Quad @ 62,500

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

This is a rare example of an elevator that has a conveyor over the mainline of a railroad. But this is not a Class I railroad. I think it is IAIS. I don't think the elevator is rail served.

Satellite

Street View, Nov 2022

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Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd. manifest PESI (Peoria IL to Silvis IL) rolls between the grain elevator silos at Putnam, Illinois early evening Saturday, April 5, 2025. IAIS 501 has 64 cars. Note the empty Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway (CIC) boxcar in the consist.