Bill
You were right about growth. BNSF now loads out around 8,000 commuter per
day at Rt. 59 and Naperville. May was a record month for commuter loading
but with the reduced crews revenue was down with no one to collect tickets
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: William Franckey <budapest@g...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Aurora Shops
> Dear List,
> I hope I can shed some light on the creation of the Transportation
> Center at Aurora. Initially, a panel was created to pick a consulting
firm
> to handle preliminary plans and direction for the center. We (BN) had a
> room reserved in Marina Towers Chicago where different firms came in and
> made presentations of "what and how" for the last remaining parts of the
> roundhouse-Aurora Shops. Every square inch of every wall remaining was
> photgraphed and reviewed in the study done for Aurora. Initially Amtrak
was
> a sobering consideration as the structures could not move yet the tracks
at
> Lincoln Street were not in relative close proximity. A funny thing about
> laying tracks, what looked to be workable as viewed on a blueprint, lying
on
> a table, does not seem to translate into the real world of physics, full
> scale. I remember a design engineer being always present, having to
explain
> why this and that would or wouldn't work. About this time a study was
done
> of projected growth of Aurora, Naperville and Lisle. I remember the stats
> and Aurora was to grow at half the rate of the eastern communities.
> Possibly this was one of the main reasons for the move of Amtrak to
> Naperville......at the very least it gave someone someplace leverage.
Also,
> if I remember right, care was taken under the cement plateforms at
Napervile
> for a 4th main in the future. Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Duncan" <cduncan@c...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Aurora Shops
>
>
> > During the 50's I commuted to the CB&Q ofices on Jackson & Clinton in
Chi.
> > Are threr no more commuting for Chicago bound from Aurora?
> >
> > cttnghmrl@a... wrote:
> >
> > > The story published at the time the new center was opened and the old
> depot
> > > was closed stated that in order to stop at the new station Amtrak
would
> need
> > > to go "down" to the station and climb back "up" to the main line, and
> they
> > > didn't want to take the time to do so. The suburban tracks at the new
> center
> > > are considerably below the elevated main line tracks at that point. I
> don't
> > > know if this truly was a real problem, but it was the excuse Amtrak
used
> for
> > > moving their suburban stop from Aurora to Naperville.
> > >
> > > Ray Cottingham (who was living in the Aurora area at that time.)
> > >
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