Buffalo, NY: Pierce-Arrow Factory and Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co.

Pierce: (Satellite)

Foundry: (Satellite)
 

11: 59  video @ 3:59
The Dark Story Behind Buffalo's Most Iconic Factory | Pierce-Arrow Factory | Documentary

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I wonder how far into the 20th Century that they used line-shaft power.

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Street View, Jul 2025

Note Great Arrow Ave. Great Arrow was the name of one of the car models.

Satellite

The smoke stack still stands.

Satellite

1950/50 Buffalo NE and NW Quads @ 24,000

Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co.

Authentic Buffalo History posted
Buffalo Foundry & Machine Company at East Ferry Street and Fillmore in 1920

Phil Queeno commented on the above post
In 1842 David Bell, a Scotch machinist and mechanical engineer, came to Buffalo and found employment at the Buffalo Steam Engine Works, then lately brought into operation. In 1845 he joined William McNish in starting a small plant for the same business. The partnership was dissolved in 1850 and David Bell continued it alone. A few years later his works were burned, just after the expiration of insurance, and he began anew with little to capitalize his undertaking except the stuff of courageous energy in himself. He not only rebuilt his works, but also enlarged their scale. In business management he could hardly be called successful; but he kept his feet, and was always at the front of new ventures in his line. He built the "Merchant," the first iron propeller on the lakes. He began locomotive building in 1865. He constructed for the city its first fireboat, in 1887. He was full of enterprise to the end of his life, and the David Bell Engineering Works, which survived him, were merged, in 1907, in the Buffalo Foundry and Machine Company.

Note the sign on the top of the building.

Street View, Jun 2025

Kings, IL: Lost/CB&Q Depot

(Satellite, based on Photo 5 and the aerial photos below.)

The Ogle County Historical Society posted 12 photos with the comment: "Kings Station became a busy stop in the Chicago Iowa (CB&Q) line in the late 1800s and early 1900s."

Richard Fiedler shared

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Henry King, along with other influential farmers in the area, convinced the Chicago Iowa Railway company to build tracks from Rochelle to Rockford with stops along the way at Kings Station, Holcomb and Davis Junction. This spur line created an industry of shipping for the local farmers that otherwise might have ended up west of their locations. Here's are some of the 'section crew' using a handcar to inspect the tracks. During census years, you can find many men listed in town as being railroad workers. 

Steve Adams: Remember the day they tore this down. The older folks watching and telling stories of the Depot and what it meant to the townsfolk back in the day.

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This picture is taken, looking north towards Holcomb. In the background you can make out the long harness shop building.

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Passengers getting off the train and walking toward downtown Kings, located to the east of the station.

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Locomotive and train coming into Kings from south of town.

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An elevated view looking north out of kings. The depot is in the center of the picture. The elevator built by Henry King is on the west side of the tracks. Stockyard pens and storage for other shipped goods is on the left side of the picture. The harness shop is the long building to the right.

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Harness shop in Kings

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Inside the harness shop

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Crowds would gather to hear Teddy Roosevelt give his speeches during the whistle stop campaign he took across the country.

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This is a picture of him in Rochelle in 1903.

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Second picture of Roosevelt in Rochelle. One of the older residents of Kings was a young girl in 1903 and remembers clearly, going down to the depot with her parents, to listen to that 'handsome' man talk from the back of his railroad car.

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See the next picture for the explanation written on the back of this picture taken in Kings around 1914.

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1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

There was a small railyard in this town.

1917/69 Kings Quad @ 62,500

The depot would have been in the foreground of this view. The town's grain elevator now uses some of the railyard land. Not only do the tracks still exist, but they are also being maintained. I don't think the elevator gets rail service.

Street View, Sep 2012

1902

This is one of the former CB&Q routes that it operated by Illinois Railway.

Omnitrax, click the yellow rectangle near the upper-right corner via Dennis DeBruler

Belding, MI: 1921 Office/PM Depot

(Satellite)

The PM route is now a trail.

Street View, Jul 2019

Tim Shanahan posted
Belding Michigan Railroad Depot

Tri Lakes Model Trains, Jun 2022

1972/74 Belding Quad @ 24,000

Arlington, MO: Lost/Frisco Depot and US-66

(Satellite)

US-66 Overview

US-66 crossed the Little Piney Creek just south of town, and a "US-66 branch" crossed the Gasconade River just west of town to access Jerome, MO.

Richard Crabtree posted four photos with the comment:

Just west of Newburg is the small town along the Gasconade called Arlington.

Tracks were laid to Arlington in 1866. The Frisco did a great job promoting hunting, fishing, boating, and camping in the area.

At the turn of the century, you could take the Frisco from Union Station to enjoy the great outdoors at Arlington for $5.00 a person.

You could stay at the Gasconade Inn for $1.25 a day or $5.00 a week.

Mr. L.F. Pillman ran the Inn and provided a nice meal. He also had a general store connected which could outfit you with everything you need to enjoy the area— boats, tents, fishing tackle, guides, etc.

And when you were done, you waited for the next train to take you back home.

Photo 1) The little Frisco Depot at Arlington, Mo, circa 1950

Photo 2) The Gasconade Inn General Store and Train Stop, around 1890

Photo 3) Ladies enjoying one of Mr. Pillman's boats on the Gasconade— next to the Frisco Railroad Bridge.

Photo 4) Frisco Bridge over the Gasconade

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A general store is about the only thing left of the town.

Street View, Nov 2008

Route 66 used to go through this town.

1950/57 Newburg Quad @ 24,000 via Dennis DeBruler

Of course, US-66 is now routed on I-44. But we can still find remnants of the original US-66.

Satellite

Street View, Jan 2014

Grants, NM: Route 66 Sign near US-66, Santa Fe Caboose and Uranium Mining Museum

US-66 Sign: (Satellite)

Caboose: (Satellite)

Museum: (Satellite)

Wall Mural: (Satellite)

US-66 Overview

Vegas Bassist posted
[Looking North from US-66, or at the south side of the sign.]

Earl Gates Jr commented on Vegas' post
We visited Grant's in December [2025]
[Looking South from an unlabelled street.]

The south side of the sign must have recently been repainted. The next oldest view, Mar 2021, looks like this instead of the "flames" sign in the post at the top of these notes.

Street View, Mar 2025

I found a nighttime photo so that we can see it lit up. This was the north side before it was repainted as in Earl's photo above.

Txtravler, Nov 2024

The mining museum features an underground uranium mine.

Street View, Mar 2025

This is the caboose that we see in the left background of the above view.

Street View, Mar 2025

This wall mural does not exist in the Mar 2021 street view.

Street View, Mar 2025

These motels are old, but Springfield, MO, has two motor courts which are a generation older. Motor courts were the original lodging style along national highways.

I started looking for the posted sign by "cruising" Historic 66 from the east side of town. I passed some motor hotels on the east side. This one was fancy for its day because it had two stories.

Street View, Mar 2025

I remember when the motel signs would brag about Color TV.

Street View, Mar 2025

Like depots, if a building is not maintained, it falls apart.

Street View, Mar 2025

One is still in business. But it appears that it specializes in longer stays.

Street View, Mar 2025

This was labeled Former East Pueblo Texaco Service Station. The pumps are gone in the May 2015 view.

Street View, Dec 2008

Of course, now food, gas and lodging is along the exit from I-40.

Street View, Mar 2025