Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Prairie City, IL: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Lost/Wood Grain Elevator

I could not determine the satellite locations because I could not reconcile the photo with the rectangles along the tracks in the aerial photo below.

Andy Zukowski posted
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad locomotive chugging by the grain elevator and depot in Prairie City, Illinois, a village in McDonough County about 23 miles from Galesburg. C1910
Photo by C.R.Childs

Street View, Sep 2019

The wood elevator was gone by 2023.
Street View, Jun 2023

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The town is on the route from Galesburg to Quincy.
1902

1944/62 Avon Quad @ 62,500

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