Not only is the depot lost, the whole town is lost. It was swallowed by O'Hare Airport.
George Almaraz posted two photos with the comment: "In light of recent discoveries (thank you Tom Dueringer for your post on the Guthrie, Illinois train depot,) I wanted to share my own that I’ve made as of a month ago. —I’ve been researching about the lost town of Orchard Place, Illinois (what eventually became O’Hare Int’l Airport, hence, “ORD”) and trying to find as many photographs of the town and/or depot that was located on the Wisconsin Central railroad. There are a couple well known and published photos/info of the depot, but I’m hungry for more. In the midst of my research, I found two photos that were not known of before on an antique auctioning website (WorthPoint.) These photo postcard scans were listed on their sales archive and I was able to download the images. They’re from circa 1910!"
Paul Hurst: I would like to see a map of Orchard Park too. Just to see what it looked like.
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| George Almaraz commented on Paul's comment Ah, you mean Orchard Place, Illinois. Where this depot was located. Orchard Place itself fell into the hands of progress, and pretty much got flattened down with the expansion of the airport and highways in the late 1950s. —Here’s a circa 1930s low aerial photo of the “main square” of Orchard Place. The train tracks are the Wisc. Central (Soo-Line), street going across is Higgins Rd., and the diagonal street on the right is Mannheim Rd. If you zoom in, you can see the depot on the right side of the tracks |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Paul's comment 1900 Riverside and Highwood Quads @ 62,500 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on George's post This image uses a transparency feature that shows the 1900 topo map overlaid on a base map that has the airport. Orchard Place is at the top to the left of Rosemont. https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/topomapexplorer/index.html... |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on George's comment I was confused until I realized this photo is looking South. It appears that the depot was under today's I-90, https://maps.app.goo.gl/9NiHjp2x3y47HE1T8. 1938 aerial photo |
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