<< Jerry Stauffer <jerstauf@e...> wrote:
<<snip..>>
...he also says the tracks went south to Woods Mfg. too but again I have
never heard that anywhere else either.>>
Jerry and list:
I wonder if your elderly friend is referring to the temporary, narrow-gauge
line set up when Illinois Highway 2 was being paved around Oregon back in the
latter 1920s or the '30s. My mother remembers the little industrial line
running north on Sixth St. past her house for the work north of town. If
don't know if a similar line ran south of Oregon during construction, but if
it did, it would have passed the site occupied later by Wood Bros. You might
ask your friend about that.
Regards,
Bill
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