Glen Carbon, IL: Junction: Trail/ICG/IC vs. Trail/IT/St. Louis, Troy & Eastern

(Satellite, Mont, IL, is now in the boundaries of Glen Carbon)

The IC route is now the Glen Carbon Heritage Bike Trail, and the Illinois Terminal route is now the Madison County Transit Goshen Trail.

John P. Kohlberg posted twelve photos with the comment: "ICG's North Local meeting ITC's 203 at the north end of the siding at Mont, Ill., on ICG's (IC) Springfield District, May 1975.    Robert F. Schramm Kodachrome(s)."

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Alna, ME: Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum Roundhouse

(Satellite, they already have a turntable)

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum posted six photos with the comment:

Engine House Project - Work on the east side / pit stall this week. Photos by C Stewart Rhine, see captions for details.

Big thank you to Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum for... see caption.

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum shared with the comment:

New wooden enginehouse going up at Maine's Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum.

Gary Smith: How much trackage in feet or miles?

Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum: Gary Smith 3.5 miles of mainline track. Hundreds of feet of yard tracks and sidings.

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Much progress was made during the Fall Work Weekend including construction of the roof overhang with soffit panels. Also, one section of frieze board with tar paper was installed on the east side. See the next panels for news on track work.

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The track crew began laying track in the pit stall on Monday. Here, Dana Deering crops the turntable feed rail as Joe Fox watches from inside the pit. This view looks north.

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The rail stanchions were brought in by the track crane and set in place by the pit crew.

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The pit crew, led by Dan Malkowski (in the black hoodie) plotted the location of the 18 stanchions to be ready to accept rail which will be craned in by "Elmer" seen through the doorway.

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The next step was to begin setting the 80 pound rail sections. This view shows the first two sticks of rail set in the north end of the stall.
These rails were donated to the WW&F by the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum - Thanks!

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Afternoon rain ended Mondays work but not before the pit rails were connected to the house track. The support stanchions will be bolted to the pit floor and rail attached to the stanchions after the next pieces are set in place.
Kennebec, Penobscot & Northern HO scale railroad: One question? How will the rails be attached to the stanchions? Welded? Bolted? Other?
Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum: Kennebec, Penobscot & Northern HO scale railroad Bolted using track clips.

The WW&F Railway traces its roots to 1894 when the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad constructed a two-foot “narrow” gauge railroad northward from the bustling wharves of Wiscasset. Far short of its international delusions of grandeur, the railway of “big dreams and little wheels” only reached Albion, Maine....The WW&F served the businesses and residents of rural Maine until 1933. [Facebook]

I used a roadmap instead of a satellite image because the narrow track is kinda hidden by the tree canopy.

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[The faint grey line west of ME-218.]

The dotted red line shows Albion. Wiscasset is in the middle about a fourth of the way up from the bottom. It is along US-1. According to a 1948 topo map, Maine Central not only ran along the coast, it had a route up the Kennebec River just 10 miles west of the WW&F. And even though it went through a lot larger towns, it appears that river route also has not survived.

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Brodhead, WI: Museum/Milwaukee Depot

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Street View, Aug 2013

 Trent Briggs posted two photos with the comment: "Brodhead."

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Paul Burlingam posted three photos with the comment: "At the depot perm display at Brodhead Wis  Oct 2016."

Dennis DeBruler shared

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Benjamin Johnson, May 2022

This topo map accurately marked the location of the depot.

1962 Brodhead West and East Quads @ 24,000

Bryan Much posted four photos with the comment: "Brodhead depot.  1881.  https://www.brodheadhistory.org/depot-museum/"

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Timothy Schreiner commented on Bryan's post
I took this in 1985.

Madison C: Maryville, IL: 1891-1931 Donk Brothers Coal Mine #2

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The Madison Country Transit Schoolhouse Trail was the RoW of the Illinois Terminal Railroad.

Andy Zukowski posted
Donk Brothers Coal Mine Number 2 at Maryville, Illinois. 1909

Dennis DeBruler commented on Andy's post
https://wikiimage.isgs.illinois.edu/ilmines/webfiles/topo-mines/collinsville.pdf

https://wikiimage.isgs.illinois.edu/ilmines/webfiles/topo-mines/collinsville.pdf

1937 Colinsville Quad @ 24,000

It looks like this one was cleaned up rather well within 10 years of closure.

1941 Aerial Photo via ILHAP

Montgomery, AL: Western Railway of Alabama Roundhouse and Shops

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The "Satellite" link above is to the roundhouse footprint itself. I saved this view because there is a lot of abandoned railroading in this area. Note that North is to the right. The railyard above Court Street is the CSX/L&N yard. This yard was the mostly empty land south of Court Street.

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Gary Illig posted
Does anyone here know which railroad operated this roundhouse in Montgomery, Alabama? TIA
Thomas Dorman: Western Railway of Alabama

Gary Illig commented on Thomas' comment

Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's post
It looks like that railroad and L&N were the only ones that went through Montgomery. GM&O, SAL, Central of Georgia and ACL all terminated here.
1957 Montgomery Quad @ 250,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's post
WRoA had the classification yard that still exists further north. It looks like CoG and/or SAL may have shared these facilities with WRoA. The yard to the west was L&N. The WRoA roundhouse was gone by 1958 and traces of the L&N roundhouse are now gone.
1958 Montgomery North Quad @ 24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Gary's post
There are enough remnants of the roundhouse that we can determine that the 1930 map accurately depicts the location and size of the roundhouse.
1930 Montgomery Quad @ 62,500
Ted Gregory: Very cool Dennis. I worked for CSX and I do not remember there being another yard other than the L&N yard in existence in the early 2000's. Anything that came off the ACL Bow Line from Waycross GA would also come into the L&N Yard iirc.
But since then, CSX has spun off their Florida Panhandle mainline from Jax to Pensacola which forced more freight onto the Bow Line which means they had to come up from Mobile via Flomaton and Montgomery to get to Waycross. In other words, additional Bow Line traffic may have required reactivation a yard. William Davis can you shed any light on CSX Yards in Montgomery? Am I correct?

Nick Kozlik posted
Montgomery Alabama.

Chase Withrow: This is all but gone now. New customers and track in the redevelopment of the property cover most of this.

Comments on Nick's post

Dallas, TX: 1916 Union Station and Towers #106 and #107

From north to south:

#106: (3D Satellite, looking West) Also named North Tower

Station: (3D Satellite, looking West)

#107: (3D Satellite, looking East) Also named South Tower

Tower #106

1 of 7 images posted by Roger H Mitchell
Cory Behrendt: Tower 106. http://txrrhistory.com/towers/106/106.htm [This also has a history of Union Station.]

Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station    

Street View, May 2022

"The terminal company ownership was expanded to eight railroads, each having a 12.5% share: the Texas & Pacific; the Frisco; the Rock Island; the Cotton Belt; the Southern Pacific; the Santa Fe; the Katy; and the Trinity & Brazos Valley (T&BV). The T&BV ownership share was later sold to the City of Dallas." [txrrhistory]

As we have come to expect, the waiting room is now an event space.

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And they have other spaces as well.

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Tower 107      The tower on the right is called Reunion Tower, and it is an observation tower.

Street View, Jan 2018

Not only has the amount of tracks changed, but so has the grades.

1958 Dallas Quad @ 24,000

John W Barriger III National Railroad Library via txrrhistory
Tower 107 sits beside an interurban bridge (with overhead wires barely visible). The photo was probably taken sometime in the late 30's or early 40's. The staircase in the background provided pedestrian access to the Houston St. Viaduct to Oak Cliff.

John W Barriger III National Railroad Library via txrrhistory
Tower 106 looking north.