Alexander, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot and Lost/Wood Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Trent Briggs posted

Larry Candilas: MP 437.4 - Springfield Div; 10th District

Richard Fiedler shared

When I looked at a satellite image, I noticed the town does not have a grain elevator. So I verified that it did have a wood elevator in 1941. In fact, it looks like it had a lot of grain bins as well.

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP
Richard Fiedler shared

Hayes, IL: Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2024

This is one of those towns that has more fertilizer than grain storage. The elevator is on the far right. The facility on the left is various fertilizers.

Street View, Aug 2024

Ag support is the only thing left of this town. Just a little west is a NU-AG seed company.

Street View, Aug 2024

Daren Genau posted
Flicken IL
[At least Google Maps still thinks Hayes, IL, is a town. It doesn't even have Flicken, IL.]

Wesley Peters: Built for the Tuscola Co-operative Grain Co. in 1941. Younglove Construction Co. of Sioux City, IA was the contractor. They also built a near identical house at Hayes, IL also for the Tuscola Co-operative Grain Co. in 1934. The one at Hayes is still standing.

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Smyrna, TN: NC&StL Depot

(Satellite)

NC&StL = Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis (The Dixie Line)

Street View, Mar 2022

Jeremy J Schrader posted

This is one of those small towns that is close to a major city and has grown a lot. That makes it hard to find the downtown. This map taught me to look for a river along the track. The map accurately marks the location of the depot.

1957/67 Smyma Quad @ 24,000

Plymouth, IL: Late 1850s Lost/CB&Q Depot

(Satellite?, I checked three aerial photos but could not find a rectangle close to the tracks that was not close to a road crossing.)

Trent Briggs posted
Plymouth, Illinois
Larry Candilas: CB&Q Galesburg Sub - MP 221.8
Richard Fiedler shared
Richard Fiedler shared

Patty Peterson posted
Plymouth Depot (1979 Sites and Structures of Hancock County)
Richard Fiedler shared

I included the grain elevator on the south side of town because it is interesting to see how it grew.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1957 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1969 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

The topo map did not help find the location.

1913/13 Colchester Quad @ 62,500

Farmersburg, IN: Lost/C&EI Depot and Microwave Tower

(Satellite)

The street in the foreground is Main Street.

Roland Boles posted

It is obvious that the depot was in the northwest quadrant of Main Street and the tracks.

May 3, 1962 @ 24,000; AR1VAJP00030073

The signal box behind the CSX truck is where the depot used to be.

Street View, Aug 2023

The brick building would house the microwave communications equipment. the tower still has three microwave dishes. It looks like they added to the top of the original tower to add the cell phone antennas. That addition is a testament to how things were over engineered in the 20th Century before computer aided design became available.

Satellite

Griggsville, IL: Lost/Wabash Depot and Bunge Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, it is gone.)

Bunge: (Satellite)

Feed Store: (Satellite)

Scott Rigg posted two photos with the comment: "Wabash Depot Griggsville, IL."

Richard Fiedler shared

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Andy Zukowski posted
The Wabash Railroad Depot in Griggsville, Pike County, Illinois. 1907
Richard Pressley shared
Richard Fiedler shared

 

Andy Zukowski posted
Wabash Railroad Depot in Griggsville, Illinois Photo Taken in July, 1968

 

Andy Zukowski posted
Wabash Railroad Depot in Griggsville, Illinois. 1967
[Some comments indicate that the building in the background with a boxcar was a feed mill.]

Wayne DeJaynes posted four photos with the comment: "Griggsville's old Wabash Railroad depot! The last photo is around 1968 and don't remember when other three are from I'm assuming they are much older. The second one looks really old if it's really the the Griggsville depot!"

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This map did not mark the location of the depot even though there was room.

1924/71 Griggsville Quad @ 62,500

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Bunge does get rail service.

Street View, Oct 2016

In addition to some large bins, the elevator has a big ground pile. The hoppers are more evidence of rail service.

Satellite

It is notable that the downtown is along a road rather than down by the railroad.

Satellite

Muncie, IN: Trailhead/C&O Depot

(Satellite)

If you are here because of "Lost/Union Station (NYC & NKP/LE&W)," then you need to go there.

Street View, Dec 2021

As "trailhead" implies, the C&O route is now abandoned, and the route is used by the Cardinal Greenway. 

Kyle Johnson, Feb 2017

The railroad next to the trail at the depot that we see on the right in the above view is a connector between LE&W's north/south and east/west routes through town.

Map via NKPHTS via Dennis DeBruler

Dwayne Caldwell posted
Muncie’s Wysor Street Depot was built in 1901 by William S. Kaufman for the Cincinnati, Richmond, and Muncie railroad line. It is an example of Victorian Queen Anne style with wide white oak woodwork, maple floors, granite walls and marble fixtures, costing around $15,000 at the time. It served as a depot until C&O ended both passenger service to Muncie in 1949 and the freight service in 1950. The building was then leased as office space by Muncie Gear Works for twenty years. It began use as a depot once again in 1973 as Amtrak utilized only the platform, but not the station itself, for their Cardinal Passenger Line. This usage ended in 1985 and the depot remained vacant for a number of years. Cardinal Greenways took ownership of the depot in 1993, beginning restoration on the site in 1996. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 the depot reopened in 2004 as headquarters for Cardinal Greenways. The restored depot features historic displays, a gift shop and trail information. Photo/text by Dwayne Caldwell.

Ted Friddle: I was the guy that restored it back in 2004.

Jacob Earl: The stone that says "Muncie" in the lower right corner, came from the Big Four Depot downtown Muncie.

This photo is of the Union Station.

Jacob Earl comments on his comment
This is a picture my dad, Mark Earl, took, sometime in the 80's very early 90's. But, just to the left of the Conrail engine, you can see that same block that says Muncie.

Jacob Earl commented on Dwayne's post
Wysor St. Depot Muncie, IN 80's or 90's. Photo taken by my dad, Mark Earl.

Dwayne Caldwell: Jacob probably 80s from what I read. Different roof. Maybe Ted Friddle could comment on that.