CERA also has a West Towns Book in the works
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed DeRouin" <Ed@pixelspublishing.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Harlem Ave station Berwyn
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@c...> wrote:
> > According to the Map the West Towns Lyons Line, including the
> Stanley Avenue
> > portion, was abandoned in 1941.
> > Charlie Vlk
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> What a timely subject!
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> Just a week ago Monday, I viewed a pile of 8X10s of that area.
> The are a part of the John Humiston estate and are being
> researched for later publication in the magazine of the Shore
> Line Interurban Historical Society, First & Fastest.
>
> The photos, taken in 1937 and perhaps other years, were of both
> the C&WT and the Q. I was enlightened and delighted to learn
> more about the Harlem Avenue Interlockng that I had ever hoped.
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> The interlocking protected both the Q and the C&WT. I was
> staffed by a Q operator, in this case a well-recognized name, L.
> E. Griffith. The tower was located west of Harlem on the north
> side of the CB&Q right-of-way. It was a pipe plant!
>
> If you recall photos of eastbound trains at that location from that
> era, you may have noted a signal bridge west of Harlem. In that
> period, that bridge contained tri-color signals protecting
> westward movements on 1 and 2, and semaphores protecting
> eastward movements on 2 and 3. I always wondered why the
> semaphores had not been replaced with tri-color signals. The
> photos contained the reason.
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> The electrically operated sempahores were part of the
> interlocking! Immediately east of the eastward signals on 2 and
> 3 were pipe-operated point type derails.
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> I found it fascinating that the crossing of the Q with the street
> railway was protected with a plant worthy of a second steam
> road.
>
> No publication date has been determined as of yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed DeRouin
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