Chillicothe, IL: 1889 Rock Island Depot

(Street View; Satellite)

Andy Kelleher commented on Bill Molony's posting
Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Depot in Chillicothe, Illinois. 1914

Jim Arvites posted

View of a Rock Island Railroad passenger train arriving at the Rock Island's depot at Chillicothe, Illinois in 1912. The station, built in 1889, still stands today.

(Chillicothe Area Historical Society)

Nancy Seipel posted
Chillicothe Train Depot. Mailed with 1 cent stamp, looks like 1913.

Tim Alexander: Now a rail museum open 1 day a week and for tours.

Roger Kujawa posted
Rock Island Railroad Depot in Chillicothe, Illinois 1940 RPPC
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the water tank in a photo here.
Michael Buckley Depot is still there turned it into small museum open on weekends . I was born in 1950 and from Chillicothe and don’t remember the water tower there.
Roger Kujawa shared
Andy Zukowski posted
Rock Island Railroad Depot in Chillicothe, Illinois. 1940 [It is a different exposure.]
Andy Zukowski posted
C.R.I.& P Railroad Depot and water tank at Chillicothe, Illinois. 1940 [Yet another exposure.]

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Depot in Chillicothe, Illinois. 1940

Ric Tate commented on Andy's post

Ric Tate provided seven "now and then photos" in the comments of Andy's second post.

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Sam Carlson commented on Andy's second post
It looked like this on July 10, 1995.

An old grain elevator is still standing. 

Andy Zukowski posted
Rock Island Depot in Chillicothe, Illinois. 1914
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Ross Brocksmith posted

Rock Island Station

Chillicothe

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From Grassel’s volumes titled PEORIA COUNTY

Imagery via the Ernest Grassel Collection - Local History Collection - Downtown Branch of Peoria Public Library

Richard Fiedler shared

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Seth Wetzel updated

John Matrow commented on Seth's post

Justin Henson posted
Another photo from my newly acquired lot, the Rock Island depot in Chillicothe IL. Dated 4/83
David Jordan: The track had been out of service between Peoria and Henry from October 1, 1981 to about Spring 1987 when Iowa Interstate work trains began running the line to support restoration. First revenue run was on June 22, 1987. So that is why the track looks long dormant in this scene.

Sam Carlson posted
Rock Island Depot at Chillicothe, IL on July 10, 1996. By this time, Iowa Interstate was operating this segment of the Rock Island.
Sam Carlson posted

 

Jim Arvites posted
View of the old Rock Island Railroad passenger depot at Chillicothe, Illinois on June 3, 2023. The station, built in 1889, is a museum today.
(Keith Pokorny Photo)
Trenton Dominy: This line is the Iowa interstate branch to Peoria Illinois it has a daily local out of Bureau Illinois.

 

safe_image for CHS Rock Island Depot Museum Repainting Project

Chillicothe Area Historical Society posted two photos with the comment: "With fabulous donations in hand, the Old Rock Island Depot Museum is taking shape...."

Trevor J. Nigus shared

[I checked the date, May 3, 2024, which is recent. But the depot looks like it was already looking good in the older posts above.I 'm confused.]

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Noah Haggerty posted
Iowa Interstate GP9 #300 decorated in former UP colors leads a ballast train past the newly restored Rock Island depot at Chillicothe, IL on June 9, 1987. The train made several runs to get the Peoria Branch back into shape. John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.

6 photos of the depot and a preserved 1929 Santa Fe caboose   http://chillicothehistorical.org/

A video of a IAIS train going by the depot   David Jordan PESI-21.  [Peoria-Silvia]

Chillicothe, IL: Santa Fe Depot and Offices

Bill Molony posted
This is a post card picture of the Santa Fe station and office building at Chillicothe, Illinois.
Bill Molony posted
This is what the Santa Fe Railroad's station and office building at Chillicothe looked like back in the 1920's.

Andy Zukowski posted
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Chillicothe, Illinois, 1909
Richard Fiedler shared

I knew this was a crew change town during the steam era. According to Matt, it was a crew change location well into the diesel era.

Matt McClure Spent many hours out at "Chili" taking photos. The best were the Z trains that had the crew move on and off the train on the fly. Now the run is all the way to either Fort Madison or Galesburg. And no more Amtrak either, sadly. Miss Amtrak more in Streator where the town had multiple signs proclaiming, "A proud Amtrak Community."

Michael Buckley My father worked as a conductor and we went on passenger trains out of there . One time they had Dispatchers upstairs / lots of clerks and passenger waiting room in middle . They had a track on north side they unloaded Company material . Was a nice depot sad when it burnt . Night it caught on fire my dad said a car man saved the pay checks out of clerks drawer . It was an old building, when it started it burnt quickly . The car man was a hero for everyone that night . They moved everyone over to the Brown brick building south on the mains . It had been a hotel for the Chicago& ft Mad Engs 

Andy Kelleher commented

Andy Zukowski posted
Santa Fe Freight Train at the Chillicothe, Illinois Depot. July 5th, 1954.
David Jordan: View looks east toward the Illinois River. For those unfamiliar with Santa Fe history in Chillicothe, this is the depot that was destroyed by fire on June 13, 1963. The double track mainline was out of picture at right. A railroad clubhouse on the south side of the mainline was remodeled and used as a depot through July 31, 1996 when both Amtrak's eastbound and westbound Southwest Chiefs stopped here for the final time before being rerouted.

 

David Thompson commented on Andy's post
Aerial Picture capture with identification Illinois Historical Aerial 1939 Photography https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../0bxf03064.jpg

 

David Thompson commented on Andy's post
01 62 Track Chart capture - (sfrhms.org site)

Andy Zukowski posted
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Depot in Chillicothe,Illinois. 1908

Ric Tate commented on Andy's post [At Facebook resolution]

William Shapotkin: Ric Tate Wow -- with WB Ft Madison Motor Car train on top of it! BTW -- Understood this is the Second depot at Chillicothie. Might there be any pix depot number 1?

Ric Tate commented on William's comment
the one in the post was the first.. - stick built. It burned down and was replaced with this brick version

Noah Haggerty posted
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's two-story depot and offices at Chillicothe, Illinois seen in 1962. A year later, a fire started in the wood structure just like the first depot did sixty years earlier. Operations moved to an old clubhouse south of the tracks until 1996 when the last Amtrak service departed. Unknown photographer, Thomas Dyrek Collection.
Noah Haggerty posted with the same comment
Noah Haggerty posted with the same comment

Marty Bernard posted
ATSF 30C (F3A) with The Grand Canyon stopping at Chillicothe, Illinois to pick up passengers and train orders on October 7, 1966. A Roger Puta photo.
Bryan Smith The action shots have to be my favorite. Real cowboys, leaning out of a moving train and trying to make that perfect connection. Like a major league pitcher and catcher.
Don N Jane Hall The part of this that worried me the most - besides a large chunk of metal coming at you at a speed much faster than you can run - was that the hoop I was holding would bounce off the front of the locomotive and the trainman would miss it. This never happened, but it was always a thought in the back of my head. D
Marty Bernard I've handed up orders to fast moving trains. Fun and a little scary.
Jay Holland At least the sides of the train were washed. Similar to the BN E's in the later years of commuter service, the nose was missed.
Marty Bernard The car washer did the sides and nobody cared enough to do the front manually.

1939 Aerial Photo via ILHAP
The roundhouse (yellow) was a quarter of a circle. The depot (blue) was east of Benedict Street.

Bluffs, IL: Wabash Depot, Roundhouse and Coaling Tower

(Satellite image is below)

Bill Molony posted
This is the Norfolk & Western (ex-Wabash) depot at Bluffs.
This was one of the very few Wabash depots that did not have a roof gable over the bay window.

Richard Fiedler commented on the above posting
Bluffs was where the branch to Keokuk and Quincy departed the mainline. Bluffs was also the last stand for Wabash steam where ancient moguls operated due the old spindly bridge over the Illinois a River at Meridosia. A Leased PRR 44 toner that replaced the moguls on the turntable at Bluffs. J Parker Lamb photo
Richard Mead This is the locomotive they would send across the bridge un manned...and pickup on the other side ?
Richard Fiedler I believe yes. The bridge was an ancient iron one and was rickety because it was hit by barges so many times. You could not double head on it nor exceed 10 mph. The 44 ton we was replaced by a SW until the bridge was finally condemned ending these practices and the line severed. Wabash then got trackage rights on the CB&Q to reach the trackage to Versailles north to Keokuk and Quincy.
Bill Edrington The branch from Bluffs to Meredosia was part of the very first railroad in Illinois: the Northern Cross, which began operating from Meredosia to Morgan City (near Chapin) in 1838. It eventually reached Jacksonville and Springfield and became part of the Wabash system.

The West End Spr/Hann dist page posted a similar image
Pic of the turntable at Bluffs. Just beyond the table is a GE 44 ton loco. It was used exclusively on the Meredosia Branch because of its light weight and restrictions on the Illinois River bridge.
Mark Lehn: Is the roundtable still there?
Richard Fiedler shared
Mark Stoeckel: The 44 tonner replaced the 2-6-0 steam locomotives that had been used for many years because of the Illinois River bridge weight restrictions.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's comment
I don't think so: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aUoRVBU8xxotZdt69. 1941 aerial photo.
[1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP]

 

Andy Zukowski posted
Wabash Railroad Depot in Bluffs, Illinois. 1954

Dustin Holschuh: Imagine with the mainline and the branch here this would of been a great spot to watch trains

Richard Fiedler shared

Lisa Ruble posted

Train Depot, Bluffs, Illinois, approximately 1879

Junction Hannibal Branch, Bluffs (Scott County Illinois)

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Wabash Railway Views photograph album

https://www.ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll33/id/184472/rec/32

Richard Fiedler shared

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This is the first time I have seen a small town with an active railyard, but the grain elevator has been torn down.

Satellite

But not all of the elevator is gone. (Note the caboose on the siding.)

Street View, Aug 2023

Karl Hauffe posted a question about where the roundhouse was located.

Richard Fiedler The bridge was an old iron not steel swing span that was weakened by being hit by barges over the years. There was not enough traffic to justify a new bridge so until 1958 or so operations evolved due to severe weight restrictions so that in its last years the moguls and or the 44 tonner were just operated over the bridge and not beyond. There were spur tracks on either side for the road locomotives (diesels) that would couple on and take the trains to their destinations.

Comment by Karl Hauffe on his posting
Karl Hauffe And could this have been the coaling tower location?
Dennis DeBruler Probably, the shadow has the profile of a coaling tower.
Dennis DeBruler It looks like the roundhouse was this clump of trees: https://www.google.com/.../@39.7516306,-90.../data=!3m1!1e3

Lisa Ruble posted

An Old Landmark in Bluffs (Scott County Illinois) in the 1930s..

Standing beside the flag shanty is one of Bluffs old timers, Daniel Harvey. He carried the "stop" and "go" sign in the old days before the flasher signals was installed by the Wabash railroad. It was considered a good place to stop and rest, and in the winter time many a cold feet warmed themselves at the pot bellied stove Mr Harvey kept inside. - Bluffs Yesterday and Today (1871-1971)

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Daniel William Harvey was born in England in 1857, a son of Daniel William and Elizabeth Jersey Harvey. He immigrated to America in 1894. Daniel married Ollie May Flynn in 1907. He was a flagman for the Wabash Railroad. Daniel Harvey passed away on September 9th 1942 at Bluffs.

Richard Fiedler shared

Richard Fiedler shared

Monico, WI: Lost/C&NW Roundhouse and Original Depot

If you are here because of "Bellevue, OH: NS/NKP Moorman Yard," then you need to go there.

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Raymond Storey posted
MONICO JUNCTION WIS

1950/50 Monico Quad @ 48,000

Because of the tree line, you can see the location of the north leg of the wye. And because of the gap in the trees, you can see the location of the west leg of the wye.

Satellite

3-36, 9/25/1938 @ 20,000

This photo emphasized that a significant fraction of the town's real estate was consumed by the railroad.

Jim Arvites posted

View of the first Chicago & North Western Railway passenger depot at Monico Junction in Monico, Wisconsin circa 1909-1910. At the Junction the C&NW line split with the mainline continuing on to Rhinelander and Ashland, and the other line to Eagle River and Land O' Lakes. The station, built circa 1885, burned down in May 1923. It was replaced with a new depot in 1925. In 1983 the C&NW sold the station to private investors and the building was moved to Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

(Rhinelander Historical Society)

[I leave finding the building in Rhinelander as an exercise for the reader. If you find it, please leave a comment.]

This map implies the depot was just south of today's Door Street.

1965/67 Monico Quad @ 24,000