If there was any interchange of frieght at Aurora, it would have been done at
the C&NW Freight station located if memory serves me on the south side of New
York Street. The Frieght Station was located near the intersection of New
York Street (well at that time Walnut Street since it was on the west side of
town) and River Street, the southwest corner at the north end of the Q's Middle
Ave. branch.
I think there were a couple of team tracks.... all gone in the mid 1960's.
The Q's Middle Ave. Branch would be an interesting branch to model. A few
couple of industries still got cars up into the early 1980's. The Beacon News
was
the last customer on the line. The track was slowly ripped north of the
Beacon News dock which was south of Benton Street. One or two cars every week
loaded with newsprint.
At one time there were a number of other industries there, one being a meat
packer that was located in what was later the Aurora News Agency and after the
ANA went out of business, River Street Press that prints the BRHS Publications
was in that building. It has since been torn down for the new River Street
Condos. White and Todd Lumber was another business, Strathmore (commercial
printer), Aurora Fruit Market, The Q Candy Company (which is an interesting
story,
they were planning on opening the business in Quincy IL, but their truck broke
down in Aurora, so they said Aurora looks good and there they were), I'm sure
there were other industries that were on the line.
Loren Johnson
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