Davenport, IA: 1924 Visitor Center/DRI&NW (Milwaukee+CB&Q) Union Station

(Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2021

Retro Quad Cities posted six photos with the comment:

Davenport Union Station

  DRI&NW

    Built 1924

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In the street view at the top, notice that the track is above ground level. During the flood of 2019, CP kept hauling in ballast trains and dumping ballast on the track. Then they used a tamper to lift the track above the ballast. They were in a race to keep the track above the river level. Then they refused to remove all of that ballast after the flood. In fact, I see they put larger rock on top of the ballast to help avoid a flood eroding the ballast.

Street View [Google Maps is giving me a bad link, zoom out and pan down to see the building], Aug 2017

Compare this view with photo 5 above. They have rebuilt Harrison Street to go over the higher track and CP put the signaling equipment on top of a platform.

Street View, Jun 2021