| Chicago Rock Island & Pacific (CRI&P) Passenger Depot, 4th st, the larger side is currently law offices, the smaller side is a bar; the picture is view slight north, and all west; now imagine decades ago there was an additional track north of the mainline nearer the cars, and around three additional tracks south of the mainline; being of the post-consolidation era, I can't speak to how many of these lines were "mainline", but there were at least two lines used as "mainlines" by the depot (a combination of those two seen here), and there were two separate lines crossing the Des Moines River next to one another; unfortunately, DSM is not one to preserve history, so only memory and a little digging can prove what once was; Des Moines IA |