Lost/Pennsy Depot and Junction: Pennsy vs. Big Four

Depot: (Satellite, it was south of the tracks and halfway between Washington and Market Streets.)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Junction Tower: (Satellite, according to the historic aerial below, it was in the northwest quadrant.)

Raymond Storey posted
VAN WERT OHIO PHOTO CREDIT CHRISTINE FLETCHER
Ken Hough: The PRR really like that design depot Valparaiso had one Plymouth had one, but it was made out of stone façade. And there were a few others.

The depot is now a parking lot, but the grain elevator still exists.

Street View, Jul 2023

This topo map accurately marks the location of the station.

1961 Van Wert and Scott Quad @ 24,000

Apr 4 1971 @ 24,000; AR1VCRG00010097

Grand Ridge, IL: Wood Grain Elevators and Lost/CB&Q Depot

Extant Wood Elevator: (Satellite)

Lost Depot: (Satellite, is this the remnant of the foundation. According to the aerial below, the depot was next to Burlington Ave and about halfway between Penn and Liberty Streets.)

Storage Elevator: (Satellite)

Feed Mill?: (Satellite)

 

I think the building on the far left was the CB&Q depot. 

Wesley Peters posted

Grain Elevators, Grand Ridge, IL, 1909.

Notice the two mansard roof elevators and the flathouse/warehouse elevator to the right.

Today the furthest elevator to the left is still standing.

Photograph courtesy of the M-L Photo Co., Chicago, IL.

Marty Bernard posted
CB&Q station at Grand Ridge, IL on the Montgomery-Zearing Subdivision, Aurora Division. Nov 18, 1962. Roger Puta photo

Daniel Kopack: Between Ottawa and Streator.

Street View, Nov 2022

 

Street View, Nov 2022

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

This route is now owned by the Illinois Railways. But they use the tracks south of the Illinois river for car storage, so these elevators can't get rail service.

Willow Island, NE: Wood Grain Elevator and UP Depot

Wood Elevator: (Satellite)

Original Depot Location: (Satellite?, you can see the siding in the aerial photo below, but I could not find a rectangle between the siding and the main line)

Current Depot Location: (Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2023

Cory Jakeway posted

The once bustling town of Willow Island Nebraska. Is home to this once used, but now abandoned grain elevator which sets alone along the very busy main line of the Union Pacific Railroad. 

Photographed: April-2023

Mike Bartels: Willow Island dated from the early days of the UP. The depot is now at the Dawson County Historical Museum in Lexington.

This is the kind of small, railroad created town that may have more bins than houses. Especially if you count the feed mill that is west of town.

Satellite

This is the feed mill.

Street View, Aug 2023

I wonder if this is a commercial elevator or a farmer's elevator. Most farmers don't have their own scale. But this is rather small for a commercial elevator.

Satellite

The depot at the historical museum.

Albis Guzman, Sep 2022

May 8, 1951 @ 17,000; AR1MK0000120014

Cullman, AL: 1913 L&N Depot and Caboose

(Satellite)

What are the odds that street view would catch a locomotive?

Street View, Nov 2022

Street View, May 2019

Samuel Griggs posted four photos with the comment: "Depot & caboose in Cullman Al."

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Dale Proctor commented on Samuel's post
That sure looks better than it used to!

The topo map did not mark the location of the station. Many times they do note railroad stations.

1957 Cullman Quad @ 24,000

Kenosha, WI: Harbor, American Motors Plant and C&NW Depot

Harbor: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Mary McCorison posted
All this about Harbors and bridges got me thinking about the Kenosha, Wisconsin Harbor. We would go down there to watch the ships come in and turn around to park next to American Motors. Sometimes there would be 2 or 3 ships in at a time. This is all they had to turn around in. But, it was always exciting to watch.

 

Brendon Baillod posted three images with the comment:

This scarce Kenosha harbor view arrived a few weeks ago.  It is a divided back postcard that was mailed in 1914.

It shows a scene that no longer exists.  Until 1960, Pike Creek flowed into Kenosha Harbor at the site of present-day Navy Memorial Park.  Present-day 6th Avenue spanned the creek via a swing bridge which allowed schooners of significant size to sail up the creek to the N.R. Allen Tannery docks.

The view here looks out the creek to the northeast into the harbor.  On the left is a large trestle used to carry coal to loading chutes.  Tan bark can be seen stacked on the left bank of the creek just above the Sixth Avenue bridge caisson.  A large two-masted schooner is moored near the outside of the creek, probably having just loaded with coal at the chutes after unloading the tan bark.

In the 1950s, Pike Creek was filled in and by 1960, it was completely gone along with much of the industrial infrastructure that depended on it for transportation.  The maps below show Kenosha harbor in 1910 and today.

(This is a digital image of an archival original in my private collection.  Please include original description if resharing on Facebook.  Please credit the Brendon Baillod Collection if you wish to share outside of Facebook.)

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Apr 4, 1955 @ 17,000; AR1VDG000110147

Mar 1, 1976 @ 36,000; AR1VEDC00010008

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C&NW Depot

Street View, Jul 2017

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
Kenosha, Wisconsin before they raised the right of way.  The C&NW depot can be seen at right distance.  Watch tomorrow when we post the very same view from raised track where the grade crossing is here.  Keep an eye on the large white building on left past the box cars.

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
Check out the Kenosha photo posted on this site yesterday.  This photo was taken after the right of way through Kenosha was raised from the very same place the earlier photo was taken except from a higher level.  Note the white building on the left with the writing on it and compare it to yesterday's photo.

The photo is looking north from the 57th Street overpass.

Street View, Jul 2023

This topo map not only marks the location of the depot, it labels it.

1958/60 Kenosha Quad @ 24,000

Cumberland, MD: Viaduct Junction (ND) Tower

(Satellite)

Barry Trogu posted
CSX #8414 with westbound freight at ND Tower in Cumberland, MD heading towards the Cranberry Grade. I took this photo on June 13, 1992.

Christian Peck: 17 Mile Grade. Cranberry Grade doesn't start til Terra Alta.

Barry Trogu: Ok, what is the division here?

Christian Peck: Barry Trogu Mountain Subdivision. And part of CSX's Cumberland Coal Business Unit. Or The West End.

 

Barry Trogu posted
Chessie GP-40 #4437 and others on west bound trailer train at ND Tower, Viaduct Junction in Cumberland, MD on a hazy September 1980 morning when I took this photo. The train is heading to Hyndman and the Sand Patch Grade.
Tim Shanahan shared

Bill Rettberg Jr. posted
End is near for Viaduct Junction's ND tower. New signal say goodbye to old tower. 

Industrialmodels posted
7/53 Red Border at ND tower.  Of all slides in my collection, this is one of my favorites. The colors are preserved almost perfectly, the EM-1 headed west onto the West End, the old car and houses. So much to see here.....
Bob Freitag shared
Darren Reynolds shared

That's "ND" tower (Viaduct jct) in the background 

Before the Chessie aluminum siding

EarthExplorer: Apr 6, 1947 @ 35,400; AR1DS0000040094

The tower has been replaced by a propane tank. The tank probably supplies the heaters for the turnouts.

wikimapia, 2nd of 6 photos
"Junction between the old B&O main line and Grafton line."

geocaching, Photo by Sam Romerstein
ND Tower at Viaduct Jct, looking west toward the narrows.
The ND Tower was closed on Jan 22, 1997.
To the east is the old B&O's East End mainline which continues through Cumberland towards Brunswick and ultimately either Baltimore or Washington. The northern fork of the "Y" is the current heir to the throne that the West End relinquished in 1985 following its downgrading by CSX as a through route. Most of the Mountain's freight traffic off the East End was then shifted north onto the original P&C mainline to Pittsburgh via Connellsville and over the popular small hill at Sand Box, err - Patch. And of course, the western fork of the great B&O "Y" is the fabled West End over the Allegheny Mountain to Grafton.

1992 closeup Flickr photo You can see some singling pipelines coming out of the base of the tower.

This comment applies to the above geocaching photo as well: "The former B&O St Louis Line (now the Mountain Sub) veers off to the left of the structure while the Keystone Sub to Connellsville is on the right."

Darren Reynolds posted four photos with the comment: "B&Os 'Viaduct junction' ND tower   Cumberland, Maryland."

Dave Ori: Once the busiest junction point on the B&O. Per 1966 Metro Guide up to 75 trains on average operated through Cumberland daily.

Tim Shanahan shared

Jim Kelling: Tower is long gone; CSX painted it yellow but B&O colors were beige with brown trim for wooden structures.

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This was the junction point between Grafton, West Virginia, Connellsville Pennsylvania. The tracks you see on the bottom of the photo go to Grafton West Virginia.
Dennis DeBruler shared

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Westbound getting ready for sand patch grade..

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The model board shows the line going up to the top is the Mountain subdivision.. the line straight across to the right is the Connellsville subdivision, the line that goes straight across to the left goes to Baltimore.. Viaduct junction was an Armstrong plant.

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The last year's Viaduct junction.. the tower is taken down by a dump truck and a big chain wrapped around the tower.
All images from North American interlocking States A to z and Canada...

Darren Reynolds posted the same four photos, but with different comments.

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"ND" tower was at the Junction of the Mountain Sub.Div.

And the Connellsville Sub.Div. (Sand Patch grade)

Photo by: Noah Caplin. 1971

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The model board at " ND" tower (Viaduct jct.) This tower

Had a mechanical interlocking machine ( Armstrong leavers)

Photo by: Eric Powell

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A westbound CSX freight train passes " ND " tower on

October 1993

Photo by: Don Kroeger

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The pipeline [signalling pipeline] for the switches at " ND" tower on June

10,1989

Photo by : Dominic Morrone

All images from North American interlockings States A to Z and Canada..

Darren Reynolds posted the same four photos. It is a public group so leave a comment if there is any new material.

Bill Rettberg Jr. posted
Just a great spot to sit and watch the parade. ND tower, better known as Viaduct Jct. in Cumberland.

Dave Ori: Busy place during the B&O era 1950s-1960 s.

Matt Fisher: Not the same since the West End was nixed as a through route to St. Louis!

Dave Ori: Your right Matt. Definitely not the same. According to a B&O Metropolitan Guide issued in 1966 the B&O operated 55 scheduled trains (most trains had some work activities ie set-outs/pick-ups plus about 20 min scheduled trains ie (coal, ore, coal cars ( empties).

David Paul: Somewhere along the line they moved the steps and changed the middle window to a door.

Roger H Mitchell commented on Bill's post
I was there everyday after school hanging out with 2nd trick operator Blaine Coleman!