While I've never heard anything about a work train locomotive being lost, I
have heard stories that the railroad laid a bed of willow branches down
before applying ballast, the theory being that this would allow the roadbed
to "float" on the boggy ground. Any basis of fact to this?
Mike Matalis
Downers Grove, IL
mmatalis@s...
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From: William Franckey [mailto:budapest@g...]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:32 AM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Area north of tracks at Highlands / now Hinsdale
Hospital.
Here's another story that maybe someone could shed some light on. While
building the right of way in the 1860's, the swamp at Highlands was quite an
ordeal. There has circulated a story about losing a work train locomotive
in the swamp and the railroad being forced to cover the spot with rock and
gravel thus forever entombing the locomotive. Fact ot fiction? Bill
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