Marathon City, WI: Lost/C&NW Depot and Wood Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, 3rd Street has been built on the C&NW RoW.)

Elevator: (Satellite, Google Maps won't let me put the pin on the old part, which is on the east side.)

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
Old timey stuff once again.  This time we are "in" Marathon City Wisconsin just at train time.  How glad we are that Mr. Colby went around making such photos.  Does anyone have a "now" photo from the same viewpoint?

Daniel Paul Knigge commented on the post

Roger Hooper: Daniel Paul Knigge , must have been expensive cargo. The guy second from the right has a shotgun.

Andrew Hager: Roger Hooper Yes, very expensive cargo. Fromm Brothers Fox Furs

HRM Laser Models LLC commented on the post
Slightly different view looking east. Most photos were taken looking north east.

Matt Bourke commented on the post
Parts City sits pretty much exactly where the depot was

Street View, Jul 2023

Street View, Jul 2023

The "bridge" on the left is the scale.

Street View, Jul 2023

Canton, OH: Wandle Tower: Pennsy vs. Aban/WE/N&W/NKP/W&LE

(Satellite, the track to the North used to cross the Pennsy rather than join it.)

Darren Reynolds posted six images with the comment: "Conrails ( Ex-PRR/ N&W)

"Wandle" tower 

Canton, Ohio"

Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared

Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared

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"Wandle" tower was put in service on January 13, 1908

Photo by: Chip Syme ( No Date)

David P Harrison: Good old asbestos brick shingle siding...

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The Diamonds for the N&W crossing on May 19,1976 at "Wandle" tower...Canton, Ohio

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

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A PRR track and interlocking diagram and interlocking machine information for "Wandle" tower....Canton,Ohio

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Looking West at "Wandle" tower and the N&W Diamond

On May 19,1976

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

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"Wandle" tower on May 29, 1976 and Conrail is just a few months old...

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

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The old days at "Wandle" tower

Photo by: Chip Syme Collection

Scott Cameron: Appears to be a passenger depot in the background. Is that a different location than the much larger PRR station and later modern Amtrak depot?

B Tupper Upham: Interesting....I wonder why the K-4 is running light?

The track through Whittier Park appears to be just a connection between the W&LE and B&O. That explains why it is now abandoned. The rest of the W&LE trackage in the area is now owned by the new W&LE (reporting mark WE).

1958/60 Canton West Quad @ 24,000

Massillon, OH: Mace Tower: Pennsy vs. B&O

(Satellite, The diamond has been changed to two turnouts.)

The 2005 SPV Map marks this crossing as "CP Mace."

Darren Reynolds posted four images with the comment: "Conrails (EX-PRR/B&O)

"Mace" tower 

Massillon, Ohio"

Tom Barnett: Mace was also a TO station for the B&O CL&W branch between Warwick and Holloway.

Bill Burge: Looks like an eastbound Office Car Special. Rocked through that interlocking on the Ft Wayne Line many years.

Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared

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A Conrail special passenger train Passes "Mace" tower

Photo by: Chip Syme (No Date)

Barry James: What a great OCS train.

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Conrail Eng #7853 passes "Mace" tower with a waving Engineer... July 1977

Photo by: Robert Farkas

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Standing on the B&O looking West at "Mace" tower 1965

Photo by: Bob McCord

B Tupper Upham: Ooo..movable point frogs!

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A Penn Central (Ex-PRR) track and interlocking diagram and interlocking machine information for "Mace" tower

The track coming from the east and crossing the river was the Pennsy.

1961/63 Massillon Quad @ 24,000

The tower is near the upper-left corner. I included the Cherry Road Bridges to help correlate this photo with today's satellite images.

Mar 30, 1952 @ 17,000; AR1PH0000030049

Lee's Summit, MO: Chamber of Commerece/Missouri Pacific Depot

(Satellite)

Track side

Street View, Sep 2024

Street side

Street View, Sep 2024

Art LH posted five photos with the comment: "I visited the Independence Misssouri, Missouri Pacific now Amtrak station today."

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Once I figured out that the depot was in Lee's Summit instead of Independence, I found the depot on this map.

1957/58 Lees Summit and Woods Chapel Quad @ 24,000

UP bought MoPac, but it looks like a shortline operates it today. I could not make out the second letter in the logo.

Gerald Williams, Oct 2023

But then why did UP run their Big Boy on this route if a shortline now owns it?

B. A. Law, Aug 2021

Alexander, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot and Lost/Wood Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Trent Briggs posted

Larry Candilas: MP 437.4 - Springfield Div; 10th District

When I looked at a satellite image, I noticed the town does not have a grain elevator. So I verified that it did have a wood elevator in 1941. In fact, it looks like it had a lot of grain bins as well.

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP
Richard Fiedler shared

Hayes, IL: Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2024

This is one of those towns that has more fertilizer than grain storage. The elevator is on the far right. The facility on the left is various fertilizers.

Street View, Aug 2024

Ag support is the only thing left of this town. Just a little west is a NU-AG seed company.

Street View, Aug 2024

Daren Genau posted
Flicken IL
[At least Google Maps still thinks Hayes, IL, is a town. It doesn't even have Flicken, IL.]

Wesley Peters: Built for the Tuscola Co-operative Grain Co. in 1941. Younglove Construction Co. of Sioux City, IA was the contractor. They also built a near identical house at Hayes, IL also for the Tuscola Co-operative Grain Co. in 1934. The one at Hayes is still standing.

Smyrna, TN: NC&StL Depot

(Satellite)

NC&StL = Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis (The Dixie Line)

Street View, Mar 2022

Jeremy J Schrader posted

This is one of those small towns that is close to a major city and has grown a lot. That makes it hard to find the downtown. This map taught me to look for a river along the track. The map accurately marks the location of the depot.

1957/67 Smyma Quad @ 24,000

Plymouth, IL: Lost/CB&Q Depot

(Satellite?, I checked three aerial photos but could not find a rectangle close to the tracks that was not close to a road crossing.)

Trent Briggs posted
Plymouth, Illinois
Larry Candilas: CB&Q Galesburg Sub - MP 221.8
Richard Fiedler shared
Richard Fiedler shared

I included the grain elevator on the south side of town because it is interesting to see how it grew.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1957 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1969 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The topo map did not help find the location.

1913/13 Colchester Quad @ 62,500

Farmersburg, IN: Lost/C&EI Depot and Microwave Tower

(Satellite)

The street in the foreground is Main Street.

Roland Boles posted

It is obvious that the depot was in the northwest quadrant of Main Street and the tracks.

May 3, 1962 @ 24,000; AR1VAJP00030073

The signal box behind the CSX truck is where the depot used to be.

Street View, Aug 2023

The brick building would house the microwave communications equipment. the tower still has three microwave dishes. It looks like they added to the top of the original tower to add the cell phone antennas. That addition is a testament to how things were over engineered in the 20th Century before computer aided design became available.

Satellite

Griggsville, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot and Bunge Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, it is gone.)

Bunge: (Satellite)

Feed Store: (Satellite)

Scott Rigg posted two photos with the comment: "Wabash Depot Griggsville, IL."

Richard Fiedler shared

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This map did not mark the location of the depot even though there was room.

1924/71 Griggsville Quad @ 62,500

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Bunge does get rail service.

Street View, Oct 2016

In addition to some large bins, the elevator has a big ground pile. The hoppers are more evidence of rail service.

Satellite

It is notable that the downtown is along a road rather than down by the railroad.

Satellite