I can't believe that no street-view driver has gone south of US-34 on Wyanet-Walnut Road.
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| Hennepin Canal State Park posted Today's Throwback Thursday picture shows Lock 19, taken in 1952. |
The train is eastbound.
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| Craig Willett posted East of the Q overhead at Wyanet, IL along the canal...1966. |
Craig was taking a picture of the train, but I I'm glad he framed the photo to include the Hennepin Canal lock. Writing about that canal has been on my "todo" list for at least a year.
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| Satellite |
Note the lock on the right side of this photo.
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| Hennepin Canal State Park posted Today's Throwback Thursday dates back to 1977 and features the warehouse at Lock 19, which is no longer standing. Allen Dobbs: The warehouse must have been for the mules that pulled the barges along. John Shurts: And the railroad that doomed the canal to irrelevance. |
This lock is between Lock #20 and #18, so I concluded that it is lock #19.
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| Satellite |
The comments in the posting talk about adding a connection in the northwest quadrant between the IAIS/Rock Island and the BNSF/CB&Q tracks. This would allow Amtrak service between the Quad Cities and Chicago to use the high-speed CB&Q route that is already used by other Amtrak trains.
The railroad in the photo is the IAIS/Rock Island. I see it goes under the CB&Q just west of here.
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| 1923 Buda Quad @ 62,500 |
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