Flora, IL
Engine House and Turntable
B&O Railroad
Estimated GPS Coordinates: 38.667395,-88.490192
History
There was a eight-stall engine house perpendicular to the yard tracks across from the depot for equipment built around 1899. The railroad moved shop operations from Pana after its construction. It burnt in March, 1951. A second building was built over two of the existing pits placed parallel to the yard rails. According to Bob Dagg, former B & O employee and coworker with my grandpa, the railway turntable was rarely used when he worked there and was removed in the early 1970s and the pit filled.
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, December 1997
Pana, Illinois Centennial 1856-1956
Flora Baltimore and Ohio Roundhouse Map 1912
Flora, Illinois B&O Engine House, 1929 Sanborn Map
Donna Corry
Flora, Illinois 1950 Census Enumeration Map
National Archives
Flora Yard on Quadrangle Map
Flora Track Map CSXGP15T
Casey Sellers
Flora Baltimore and Ohio Roundhouse 1938
Illinois Historical Aerial Photographs
Flora, Illinois First B and O Engine House
Brandii Engelmeier Newby You know you are from Flora Illinois
Flora, Illinois Second B and O Engine House around 2013
Flora, Illinois Railroad Yard Turntable
Danny Fitzgerald
Flora, Illinois B and O Roundhouse Fire 1951
David Cantrell
B & O 3503 at Flora Engine House
Flora, Illinois B and O Engine House
before torn down
June 6, 2022
Gary Martin
Flora, Illinois B and O Engine House
Razed
June 6, 2022
Gary Martin
B and O GP30 #6937 Flora, Illinois 1970
Keith Bunner
Flora B and O Yards, C and O Locomotive on Siding
Provided by Pete Thayer, taken by Tom Wilson
Flora, Illinois CSX Track Facing St. Louis, Engine House on Right
David Cantrell
Flora, Illinois Railroad Yards Model
David Cantrell
