Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Union and Armour's "E" & "F" Grain Elevators

(Satellite, the elevators were gone by 1938, let alone 2021)

Unlike the City and Iowa Grain Eleavtors, these three were still standing in 1915 along the west shore of the South Branch. Armour's "E" & "F" were north of the St. Charles Air Line whereas Union was south of that route.
Bob Lalich commented on Paul's posting

The Burlington Route sign on the two Armour elevators reinforce that they were served by the CB&Q. The building on the left was the Union elevator. It appears that it was served by the Pennsy.
Paul Petraitis posted
11am 9/23/1905, Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

The Union Elevator is behind the left side of the bridge in this photo.
Al Krasauskas posted
Photographic view of the former Railroad Swing Bridge over the South Branch of the Chicago River. Originally built by P. F. W. & C. R. R. (Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road). I believe the view is actually northeast, towards downtown Chicago. Photograph is dated 8-7-09.
Paul Webb shared

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It is good that grain elevators generally have a distinctive roof line otherwise I would not have recognized the building in the right background as the Union Elevator. The elevator on the left is the Indiana Elevator.
The last photo from eight photos of elevating the tracks northeast of here is worth copying.

Sanborn Maps assigned the number 14 to Union, 15 to "E" and 16 to "F". Instead of putting these in numerical order, I order them from north to south.
Armour's "E"

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Armour's "F"
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Union

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