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Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2692

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2692
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:26:24 -0600
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Bill-
Yes, the DZ would be posed facing West.  
Charlie
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Digest Number 2692


> Charlie,
> 
> You are saying that the DZ photo is taken looking east so that the 
> train is westbound, is that correct? I don't recall whether the 
> westbound approach to the EJ&E bridge is a long straight away. If you 
> are correct, then somewhere between this point and west of Aurora, the 
> communication lines switch from north to south. In the Chicago - Aurora 
> area, I think the communication lines were on the north side of the 
> track, so you could be correct and certainly, the wide ballast area to 
> the left in the photo, could have been the remnants of the old fourth 
> main between DG and Aurora.
> 
> Bill Barber
> 
> On Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at 01:19  PM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> 
>>   Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:57:42 -0600
>>    From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: Digest Number 2687
>>
>> Looking at the photo my guess would be that it was taken from the EJ&E
>> bridge at Eola.... note the wide ballast strip to the north... the old
>> fourth main???.  If the signal lines were on the south side of the 
>> tracks
>> this wouldn't be correct; but I don't think the third track is a 
>> siding both
>> the outer tracks are at the same elevation and have the same ballast 
>> as the
>> center track.
>> In 1936 you could get all the way in to Downers Grove or maybe even 
>> Western
>> Springs and still see stretches of farmland on either side of the 
>> tracks, so
>> I wouldn't rule out the Chicago-Aurora main as a venue.... although 
>> there
>> are only a few places where a bridge would provide a spot to take the 
>> photo.
>> Charlie Vlk
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