Lena, IL: Lost/IC Depot and Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite, the walls of the foundation are still standing next to the pizza joint.)

Larry Foht posted

Illinois Central Railroad Depot

Lena Illinois

With Train

Note the round IC logo on the box cars to the left.

Larry Foht collection :

Joseph Hazinski: Fox River Trolley Museum has a motorcar that was stationed at Lena on the Iowa Division.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Larry's post
The passenger platform, sidewalk along the side of the building and dormers agree with the building that is northeast of the main track and close to Center Street extended. Note that a house track used to go behind the depot. There are four or five grain elevators within a block of the depot.
1939 aerial photo,
 https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/stephenson/flight5/0bxh02073.jpg

A better exposure.

Andy Zukowski posted
Illinois Central Railroad Depot in Lena, Illinois. 1913— with Todd Temperly.

Todd Temperly: It was destroyed by a derailment when I was a toddler. My father told me the train was hauling meat, so the whole village was scavenging the wreck for free meat.

Bill Molony posted
The Illinois Central depot at Lena, Illinois.
[Note the milk cans and the freight door on freight handling side of the depot.]

Dennis DeBruler commented on Larry's post
I think the foundation walls are still standing. And so is one of the old grain elevators.
 https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3792832,-89.8251288,114m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

I found the old grain elevator while checking out the foundation walls.

Street View, Jun 2023

Philadelphia, PA: Budd Manufacturing Co.

(3D Satellite)

3D Satellite

Michael Maitland posted five images with the comment: "Budd Manufacturing, Philadelphia and Red Lion PA.  This company was famous for many steel applications, but most noted for the "Shot Weld" technology for assembling stainless steel.  They did all 642 Amtrak Amfleet cars, most of which are still running 40+ years later.  The Downtown Budd complex is being repurposed.  The Red Lion plant is a brown field. Bonus - on the topo map #1 is the famous Tastycake plant, still standing and #4 is Midvale Steel (gone, but famous for specialty steels and military applications.)"

Marc ONeill: Sad the Detroit plant had an Independence Hall replica as the office recently torn down.

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Both Reading and Pennsy went by the plant.

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Joe Brown, Nov 2023

Chariton, IA: Lost/CB&Q and UP/Rock Island Depots

CB&Q: (Satellite)

Rock Island: (Satellite)

CB&Q Depot

I checked, Amtrak doesn't stop in this town.

Tom Nelson posted
C.B. & Q. Passenger Station, Chariton, IA (unused postcard). Sometime before 1914.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Tom's post
The black rectangle in the yard was probably the location of this depot. We can see from the photo that it had tracks on both sides.
1918 Chariton Quadrangle @ 1:62,500

Street View
Dennis DeBruler commented on Tom's post
I think this building reused the depot's land. Note that it has an "agents bay window."
41°01'09.3"N 93°18'47.3"W

 

Michael Emerson Avitt posted
Former CB&Q depot at Chariton, Iowa in March 2004.

Raymond Storey posted
CHARITON IOWA

This is on one of the few CB&Q branches that still exist in Iowa.

1902 CB&Q

Rock Island Depot

Michael Emerson Avitt posted
September 27, 2014 - Rock Island depot at Chariton, Iowa.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Michael's post
It looks like UP is still using it, Apr 2023. https://maps.app.goo.gl/NH2xrjxhv7V7BXtK9

Addison, IL: Lost/IC Depot

(Satellite)

Larry Foht posted

Illinois Central Railroad Depot

Addison Illinois

Larry Foht collection :

Chris John: Was this just north of Lake Street?

Dennis DeBruler commented on Chris' comment
The IC did have a spur that went North past Lake Street. But the spur would not be double tracked. So I think the depot was down in the wye in South Addison. Specifically, south of North Ave and north of the tracks where those two meet.
1953 Elmhurst Quad @ 24,000
My notes have the aerial photos that led to that conclusion, https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2024/02/addison-il-lostic-depot.html

Andy Zukowski posted
Illinois Central Railroad Depot in Addison, Illinois. 1909
Richard Fiedler shared

This is what it looked like around Lake Street. None of the buildings along the track struck me as the one in the photo. And then it occurred to me that the spur would not be double tracked so...

1939 04006 Photo from ILHAP

...I looked down by the wye. Given the direction of the platform in the photo, I think it is the rectangle on the west side of the triangle that is bounded by North, Addison and the tracks, and the train is heading West.

1939 01041 Photo from ILHAP

I checked another photo to see if the rectangle was more clear. It is a little better, but not much.

1939 01040 Photo from ILHAP

Belpre, OH: B&O Depot and 1913 Flood

(Satellite)

Jeff Hill posted
1913 flood. Belpre, Ohio B&O railroad station. Taken from Depot Street. Center and to the right over the hill is the present location of the Belpre High School football stadium. Note the Ohio River railroad bridge to the left of picture in the distance. Also note the height of the water. This was on the Washington-St. Louis main line. Jeff Hill collection.
Jeff Hill posted with the same description

So, in the above photo, these tracks were under water and the depot, along with the mainline tracks, were up on the embankment to the right.

Street View, Sep 2019

1969 Parkersburg Quad @ 24,000

EarthExplorer: Apr 8, 1955 @ 29,000; AR1VEE000010035

Silverton, CO: Durango & Silverton/D&RG Depot

(Satellite)

Jim Pearson Photography posted

Denver and Rio Grande Western Silverton Station sits under the stary skies, with the Milky Way to the left, at Silverton, Colorado on October 16th, 2023.

According to Wikipedia: The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 mi (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally designated National Historic Landmark and was also designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1968.

Tech Info: Nikon D810, RAW, Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm, f/2.8, 30 seconds, ISO 800.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/denver-and-rio-grande-western-silverton-station-at-night-jim-pearson.html

Paul Blwer, Sep 2022

Maroa, IL: Illinois Terminal/Pennsy Depot

(Satellite, the grain elevator reused the land to build an office)

Andy Zukowski posted
IC southbound at Maroa, IL in November of 1967. Maroa was where the Pennsylvania later Penn Central, then Illinois Terminal, joined up with the IC's Charter Line using trackage rights on the IC south to Decatur, IL.
Jim Fleming: I think the elevator office stands here today.

Jim's comment confirms I was correct about it being the rectangle just north of Main Street on the east side of the tracks.

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Andy Zukowski posted
Illinois Central Railroad Depot in Maroa, Illinois 1979

The two grain elevators south of Main Street have become one large elevator. It includes some classic slip-form silos.

Street View, Aug 2013

I was not aware that Pennsy had a branch in this area of Illinois, so I investigated further. That branch went Northwest to Peoria.

1958 Peoria Quad @ 250,000

It used the IC to get through Decatur and then headed east and connected with Pennsy's mainline to St. Louis on the east side of the state at Farrington.

1958 Decatur and 1957 Indianapolis Quads @ 250,000