Steel Pipes: (Satellite)
Bricks: (Satellite)
Steel Distribution: (Satellite)
The preserved Rock Island Depot is noted in my "Walk Through History."
 |
| Andy Zukowski posted Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Railway Company, Interurban Depot. Marseilles, Illinois Harold J. Krewer: This was on Broadway St. just east of Main St, right along the mill race to Federal Paper Board and the Northern Illinois Light & Traction hydroelectric plant. The tracks had to curve a bit south and cross Main on an angle to line up with Commercial St. There is a gas station here today. Pin dropped: https://www.google.com/.../@41.3267121.../data=!3m1!1e3... |
 |
| Harold J. Krewer commented on his comment This image was also circulated as a post card...a painstakingly-restored version I did from an original posted by Roger Kujawa. Ron Johnson: Harold J. Krewer If you're talking about the gas station on the south side, that was torn down when they redid the intersection to line up Broadway and Commercial a few years ago. It looks like Google maps hasn't updated it yet. I lived on Broadway for years and when they ground it down to repave it the tracks were still there. |
 |
| Ron commented on his comment Although it has been updated on street view... |
The gas station on the south side was gone by Nov 2022. It looks like it was already out of business in 2015.
 |
| Street View, Sep 2015 |
Saving the old satellite image.
 |
| Satellite |
 |
| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post The CO&P was just south of the Rock Island east of town and just south of the I&M Canal west of town. It, of course, did street running through town. 1940 Marseilles Quad @ 62,500 |
.png) |
| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
I could not find the CO&P bridge. In fact, the bridge was gone by 1939.
 | |
|
 |
| Digitally Zoomed |
While looking for the remnants of the CO&P bridge that crossed the canal, I noticed that there are other bridges across the canal because there are industries along the river that are still getting rail service. The two industrial spurs and their bridges that serve the Nucor tubular plant are clearly visible. The industrial spur that serves the brick and steel distributor is covered by the tree canopy. In fact, the trees are so close to the spur that I wondered if it was active.
 |
| Satellite |
But I spotted not only a freight car, but a locomotive, south of the canal.
 |
| Satellite |
And Google Earth caught three freight cars south of the canal.
 |
| Google Earth, Sep 2017 |
 |
NucorTubular_marseilles
|
I changed "pipe" to "tubular" because standard pipe is just one of the five tubular products Nucor produces. [NucorTubular]
No comments:
Post a Comment