RE: [CBQ] Carthage, Illinois depot

[Frederick Ripley <fjr68@live.com>]

What is traffic like these days on the Galesburg-W. Quincy segment?

Fred R.



> 
> If you want to view the Carthage, Illinois depot, the last remaining on
> site depot in Hancock County of the CB&Q (one is still in Adams County
> in Lorraine) on the Quincy to Carmen, Illinois line, then you better
> get to it soon.
> 
> The roof is starting to fall in on the depot and it won't be much
> longer before the City deems it a hazard and orders it taken down.
> 
> Still at the station is the loading dock. The old roadbed for a block
> has been turned into a walking train. A telephone pole has fallen and
> is laying against the north end of the depot.
> 
> The depot is located on the west side of town, just north of Main
> Street, next to the Homestead Lumber yard. Main Street is one block
> south of Rt. 136 on the west side of town, two block south from the
> east side of town.
> 
> Kam Miller
> Carthage, IL.
> 
> 
> 

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