Saturday, November 2, 2024

Cable, IL: Lost/Rock Island Southern Depot

(Satellite, according to the topo map below, the track crossed the road west of Camp Creek.)

Lois Bopp Retherford posted
One more I found in a notebook at the museum.
Richard Fiedler shared
Retro Quad Cities posted
The Rock Island Southern depot at Cable, Illinois.
Miles W. Rich: That is the Rock Island & Mercer County Depot. The Southern least the line from Milan to Southern Junction. The Cables never had an interest in the RIS. When the Cable mines ran out of coal, the RI&MC tracks to there were abandoned. The Cables owned the Rock Island & Peoria and the RI&MC both which were merged into the RI Lines in the early 20th Century. One of the Cables became President of the Rock Island Lines, the CRI&P.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Lois' post
A topo map labels it Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, but topo maps are not good about labeling shared railroad routes. The 2005 SPV Map labels it RIS.  (Update: a comment by Miles W. Rich on a post, https://www.facebook.com/share/p/3Yvgw15RdMphi3n1/: "That is the Rock Island & Mercer County Depot. The Southern least the line from Milan to Southern Junction. The Cables never had an interest in the RIS. When the Cable mines ran out of coal, the RI&MC tracks to there were abandoned. The Cables owned the Rock Island & Peoria and the RI&MC both which were merged into the RI Lines in the early 20th Century. One of the Cables became President of the Rock Island Lines, the CRI&P.")
1912/12 Milan Quad @ 62,500

Dennis DeBruler commented on Lois' post
The branch still appears in a 1938 revision, but it is gone in the next revision, 1945.
1912/38 Milan Quad @ 62,500

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

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