> The posting by Frank Hicks mentions a wreck on the Macomb & Western
Illinois
> at Industry IL. On page 38 of Hilton & Due's The Electric Interurban
> Railways In America they mention that the Macomb, Industry &
Littleton was
> built with the intention of becoming an electric interurban. I
presume that
> the MIL became the MWI, is this correct?
> Norm Metcalf, Boulder CO
Basically correct, yes, though it was the other way around. The Macomb
& Western Illinois was incorporated in 1901 and built in 1902-1903; it
was intended to be an electric railway but the builders never had
enough money to electrify. In 1912 it went bankrupt and was sold to a
scrapping company which began tearing up the tracks, but a group of
locals bought the railroad back in 1914 and operated it as the Macomb
Industry & Littleton until it was finally abandoned in 1930.
Does anyone know whether records of CB&Q locomotive dispositions in the
1905-1908 period exist? I've been told that the R&LHS published a
roster of CB&Q steam a while back but I don't know exactly when that
was. I'm looking for anything that might help establish the history of
the M&WI's secondhand locomotives. Help?
Frank Hicks
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