[CBQ] Re: Suburban service west

["cbq_9901" <cbq9901@gmail.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Schattl" <mike@...> wrote:
>
> That's the track I'm referring to.
> 
> Mike Schattl
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Dan 
>   To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:51 AM
>   Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Suburban service west
> 
> 
>     
>   Wasn't there a track that ran up to the main from the area around the round 
> houses. It appears that there is a grade for one behind the roundhouse hotel 
> area. Maybe it was just a service road. 
> 
>   Dan

Mike,
It's not, according to what you've previously written:
>two tracks that ran west from the Aurora Transportation Center site >(before 
>it became the new Aurora station) alongside the viaduct to >the then in 
>service Aurora Station in downtown Aurora. The pics even >showed an Amtrak 
>Train powered by SDP40F's using these tracks. They >were abandoned and the RoW 
>was paved over for parking lot usage >later on in the 1970's. This RoW can and 
>should be used again for >commuter service west of Aurora, IL.

Maybe you've confused "fill" and "viaduct."

Michael Herren
Aurora



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