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Re: [BRHSlist] Q branch at Sugar Grove?

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Q branch at Sugar Grove?
From: Steven Holding <hold-on@s...>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:46:58 -0600
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Mike
Yes it went to the gravel pits which are where Wabonsee College is. Was
used to haul gravel to the elevation work at both Chicago and Aurora.
sjh
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From: David E. Lotz <Dave_Lotz@m...>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Q branch at Sugar Grove?


> No mention of this in the 1917 Corporate History of the Burlington by W.W.
> Baldwin.
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> Dave
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:55 PM
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> Subject: [BRHSlist] Q branch at Sugar Grove?
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> Did the Q at one time have a short branch north out of Sugar Grove? I
found
> a reproduction of a 1916 Illinois highway map being used as end papers in
a
> book about Chicago area interurbans, and it shows such a line running
> between Sugar Grove and the Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary to the north. Gary
> fans have never heard of this, and one reply stated that it was a Q spur
to
> a quarry near Bliss Woods. Any info out there? Thanks!
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> Thank you kindly,
>
> Mike Matalis
> Railroad Photographer and Raconteur
> Downers Grove IL
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