Ed
That would be the Cucumber Factory(Suppost to be the largest
hothouse(Greenhouse)in Illinois)named Kay Bee Company on the Station Map had a
spur into the boiler house.
Looks like it would be between Armstrong and Charles Streets. There was an Ice
House on the Canal at Sycamore St. which stored Ice from the Canal(Canal filled
in in a Depression Era Public Works Project) The Illinois Valley Division of
the Illinois Traction System was the Electric Line and they used the CB&Q
Industral line to NaPlate and built east on the towpath of the
Canal. Overhead supports now hold up the lights on the Fox River Bridge for the
foot path/hiking trail
SJH
Ed Carroll wrote:
> There were pickle cars in a photo of the pickle packing plant on the west
> side of Ottawa. (I saw the photo once in the early 1970s at a LaSalle County
> Historical Society meeting.) The line that served the plant had been an
> electric line (Ottawa and Peoria) that the Q had rights over and is still the
> line that runs from the wye to the Silica plant on the west edge of town.
>
> >>> GEU30CG@a... 03/22/01 03:23AM >>>
> Recently a friend of mine who models the early (1920s) B&O told me that the
> CB&Q operated a small fleet of pickle barrel cars. I have not seen any
> information on these cars.
>
> Is there photos that exist? How late did they run? Has any issue of the
> Bulletin ran an article on these cars?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren Ferreter
> GEU30CG@a...
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
--
-----------------------------------------------------
Click here for Free Video!!
http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
|