Yes Loren - there was scheduled train service at one time all the way up to
Geneva (from there back to Batavia was one of the Q's very 1st abandonments
but some of roadbed just S of C&NW(UP) main is visible).
Ex-Q depot with Spanish tile roof is still @ Mooseheart along with a wood
waycar on display in another area. Was a neat trestle on N side of campus @
one time - anyone have a pic? (Was Ottawa, Oswego & Fox River Valley
originally)
Museum @ Mooseheart has some good photos of the depot in use, coal hoppers
at the power plant (1 of the last customers on the line before abandonment
back to NIFA/N. Aurora), etc. Some of the photos show Q trains but all hwts
as I recall. Campus once served by 3 RRs (C&NW had their Geneva-Aurora
branch plus CA&E) Gerald Edgar
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