That's what my guess was, but being the BRHS Archivist...I didn't want to
guess wrong!
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl L Rethwisch [mailto:karlre@r...]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:21 AM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Commuter car photo
Dave,
I will agree with Eric, that's Ottawa. We used to have to get people out of
a bar, behind the engine and on the Engineer's side in your picture, to move
their cars away from the curb so as to clear the engine on our way to
Sreator and LaSalle on no. 85. If I remember right the street was quite
wide just over the depot crossing and the curb was nearly at the edge of the
ties. A car parked close to the curb would foul the track causing us to
have to find its owner, talk some sense into him and have the car moved.
One particular Engineer got tired of this routine and, as we headed out on
the bridge, a few parts of a Buick came with us. THAT car was never parked
along the curb after that incident.
Karl
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Mumper
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] New Commuter car photo
Dave,
I don't have my reference stuff here at work, but I could swear (but
I
won't, family group you know) that is Ottawa, Illinois. The brick depot
looks right. I have never seen a photo with the old wooden depot in it,
but it is in the right location. The large factory above the commuter
cars is Sanders Brothers. The tall smokestack should belong to the
gassification plant behind Sanders. This would mean the picture was
taken facing south and that is Madison St. in the foreground.
Great picture Dave. Is there any way I can get a quality copy? (At
my
expense of course.) Let me know if there are any others in the series.
Eric Mumper
Dave_Lotz wrote:
>
> I was going through the BRHS Archive images last night and came across
this
> one that fit in quite nicely with the conversation thread we had earlier
on
> the non-commuter use of the bi-levels. Forgive my ignorance, but can
> someone identify where this was taken?
>
> Dave
>
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