Enfield, NC: Government/ACL Depot and Crossing Guard Tower

Depot: (Satellite) 

Tower: (Satellite)

The depot is on the left and the tower is on the right.

Street View, Dec 2024

Of course, the tower is on the left, and the depot is in the right background.

Street View, Jan 2025

This Napolean Hill Mural does not appear in a 2013 street view.

Camp Cats, Oct 2023

Doug Scott posted 17 photos with the comment:

2025-09-19

Atlantic Coast Line depot - 1920 - is now used by the town of Enfield. The only ACL gate tower still standing in North Carolina is across the tracks guarding the Whitfield Street crossing of current railroad CSX.

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Champaign, IL: Big Four+Wabash and Illinois Terminal Depots

Big Four + Wabash: (Satellite)

Crossing Guard Tower: (Satellite)

Illinois Terminal: (Satellite, this is probably the platform. Boochie's Slots is built on the depot's land.)

 Big Four is in the foreground. Wabash also used it. Illinois Terminal is in the left background behind the impressive crossing guard tower.

Mike Sypult posted
ca. 1948 Champaign, Illinois Big Four depot. Roderick O'Connor photo. Does anyone know approximately what year this depot was torn down?

Mike Sypult: I just learned that it burned down August 7, 1967...

1957/58 Urbana Quad @ 24,000

1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Cortland, NY: DL&W and Lehigh Valley Depots and Freight Houses

DL&W:

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite)

Crossing Guard Tower: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley:

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite)

Lehigh Valley Overview

 

Raymond Storey posted
CORTLAND NY   THE DL&W

Jim Kelling: Still standing and in railroad use

 

Dennis DeBruler commented on Jim's comment
The depot is labeled a community center, https://maps.app.goo.gl/L9Yw3HhztQb3imvb7. But the freight house just west of the depot is still used by NS, https://maps.app.goo.gl/QbEKKFMaFfVcaN7XA.

Jim Kelling: Dennis DeBruler okay thanks I haven’t been there for many years now

I found this trackside view of the depot while trying to figure out which crossing was controlled by the crossing guard tower. I never did find a crossing for that tower.

Street View, Jul 2024

A satellite image caught three locomotives in town and two nearby industries receiving rail service.

Satellite

The topo map not only marks the locations of the stations, but it also labels therm.

1955/56 Cortland Quad @ 24,000

Since it is also labelled on the topo map, I checked out the Lehigh Valley depot. To my surprise, it and the freight house are also extant.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Darren's post
The depot and freight house for the Lehigh Valley is also extant along South Street and west of Main Street, https://maps.app.goo.gl/UXxzb7goRksRe5iY7. The depot is in the foreground and the freight house is in the background of this view. According to Google Maps, the freight house is now a coffee shop, https://maps.app.goo.gl/MHg5vEctVE7Jc7mW6.

Jim Kelling: Dennis DeBruler the Lehigh Valley depot is in much worse condition

The freight house retains the classic design of a two-story office and a one-story freight handling part. In fact, it still has the freight doors for loading trucks/wagons.

Street View, Oct 2024

Update:

Mark H. Charles posted
About 1912, the Lehigh Valley RR built a new passenger station in Cortland, NY (on the Elmira & Cortland branch.) Here's a colorized postcard from my collection. The structure survives today, but is not in great shape.

Lebanon, OH: Old Shell Station, Crossing Guard Tower, Pennsy Depot and Wood Grain Elevator

Shell: (Satellite)

Crossing Guard Tower: (Satellite, hidden by a tree)

Garden Club/Pennsy Depot: (Satellite)

Deli/Wood Grain Elevator: (Satellite)

Shell Filling Station

Street View, Aug 2024

Filling Station and Crossing Guard Tower

Street View, Aug 2024

Crossing Guard Tower and Depot

Street View, Aug 2024

The depot is obvious, but this view also shows the top of the wood grain elevator on the left and the Shell Station as a little blob of yellow on the right side of the street in the distant background.

Street View, Aug 2024

Hopefully, Brant's sells a lot of ice cream and meat so that they can continue to maintain the elevator building.

Street View, Aug 2024

Today's depot is a replica and it helps host the Lebanon Mason & Monroe Railroad, which is a tourist railroad.

Danny Leach, Oct 2019

In addition to this steam locomotive, I saw photos of diesels painted for NKP, Conrail and C&O. I also saw photos of Thomas the Tank Engine.

Emma Gallo, Oct 2021

I don't know what the lineage is for this locomotive painted for the Lebanon Mason & Monroe Railroad, but I know it was probably built before 1970 because we can see a poling pocket. In addition to the crossing guard tower, we can see the Shell station just tothe left of the baggage car.

Matthew "Matt" Lang, Mar 2017

This was the post that motivated looking at this town.
Gail Bolte Littell posted two photos with the comment: "Lebanon, Ohio."

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La Crosse, WI: Milwaukee Crossing Guard Tower, 1926 Depot, Roundhouse and Railyard

Crossing: (Satellite, maybe)

Depot: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite, they removed it and now have a storage lot)

Railyard: (Satellite)

Jamie Adams posted
On June 18, 1984, photographer H.E. Brouse captured MILW #472, an MP15AC in La Crosse by the old octagon shaped crossing tower that was (I believe) between Avon and Liberty Streets, near the La Crosse passenger station. - Kodachrome slide. Collection of J.L. Adams
Scott Janz: I know a guy who has the finial off the top of the tower. The tower was retired, knocked down and dragged to the ditch behind the roundhouse where it resides today underneath a bunch of rubble.
Jamie Adams: I know exactly where that 'ditch behind the roundhouse' is. I take walks around that area quite often. - Does anyone know what year the actual MILW roundhouse in La Crosse was razed?
Scott Janz: Mid 90's.

Street View

John Harker posted
Jerry Plant captured this train at the La Crosse, Wisconsin Depot in August 1974.  He was standing on the U.S 53, Peace Memorial Hwy bridge to get this scene.  SD40-2 200 and GP20 991 were on the 1st section of the Royal American Show circus train.  It looks like a crew change was taking place.  I scanned and edited this image from an original Kodachrome slide. 

 

Trent Briggs posted
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Ted Schnepf: I worked in engineering department from 1971 to 1977 in that building in the closest corner office to the photographer. After lacrosse, the railroad moved me to Iowa. Ted

Jim Arvites posted

View of the old Milwaukee Road passenger depot at La Crosse, Wisconsin on July 19, 2025. The station, built in 1926, replaced an older depot that had burned down in 1916. The station was renovated in 2001 and is used by Amtrak today.

(Keith Pokorny Photo)

Steve Schafer: Renovated? What did they do to renovate? Does CP still use any of it?

Pete Kranz: Steve Schafer CP sold it to the city for $1, with the right to return to it, should they so desire. The entire facility was refurbished.

Trent Briggs posted
LAX Milwaukee Road 1939
Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "La Crosse, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Road)."

The yard caught my eye because several of the tracks are being used. When I saw this image, I wondered if the land between the CP/Milw tracks and Ranger Dr. used to be part of the yard.

Satellite

The answer is no. The classification yard is as big today as it was back in its heyday, which is rather rare. A route along Ranger Drive was a CB&Q branch. And the reason the City Brewing building is on a slant is there was a C&NW track going through there.

1956 La Crescent and 1963 La Crosse Quadrangles @ 1:24,000

EarthExplorer: Jun 6, 1950 @ 80,000; ARA000700050240