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BNSF still has a couple of buildings in the wye.)
Retro Quad Cities
posted three photos with the comment: "Barstow, Illinois."
Miles W. Rich: It is still the junction of the QC Joint line to the Crescent Bridge and the main line from Savannah to Galesburg.
Paul Schmidt: Worked for the BN there when the little yard was always full of John Deere and International Harvester products on flat cars bound for all over the world.
Fans of Rock Island Lines
shared with the comment: "Was a former C.B.Q. Station. Maybe a mile and a half off Silvis yard. The tracks leading to their rock river crossing are elevated on concrete box approx 12ft high, it runs over a half mile that way. Once you get onto wall it feels like your on a bridge overpass. I've fished off the bridge piers back in the day. Back when to jump off wall into river bottom or rather the flood plain, wasn't a big deal. It was a double track across river heading towards Colona. The cross track pic i have shows Colona and the 2 mains looking towards Carbon Cliff, with a C.B.Q. train having g just crossed the diamond. That train was headed here, next stop Barstow."
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This topo map accurately marks that the depot was in the south leg of the wye.
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| 1950/50 Port Byron Quad @ 24,000 |
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