I don't remember seeing any express cars or baggage, but then I wasn't looking
for that.
They were gallery cars with a power car. I remember off that house track was a
siding into
a lumber yard just west of Forest. I also remember the westbound shelter full
of
newspapers on a Saturday night, waiting for the morning delivery. Roy
Wojahn--- In
CBQ@yahoogroups.com, clipperw@... wrote:
>
> I know that the DG house track was used regularly for commuter trains
> originating from the DG commuter yard, but that ended in 1952 when
> steam was eliminated and the yard was shut down. I am not familiar
> with the train you are talking about, but then, in those days, I
> would not have been down at the depot at that time on a week day. It
> could have been an early morning short turn from Chicago, but then
> there would have been no way to turn it around in the late '50s,
> prior to push-pulls without going all the way to Aurora. The other
> possibility is that it originated in Aurora and stopped at DG to load
> express. That very likely would have been done on the house track on
> the south side of the depot. In the '50s, the house track had access
> from both the east and west ends. The west switch was located just
> west of Forest Avenue. Was it's equipment gallery cars with a power car?
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 2:17 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > early morning commuter train
> >
> > Posted by: "zuch2rew" zuch2rew@... zuch2rew
> >
> > Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:21 pm (PST)
> >
> > I remember seeing an eastbound commuter train in the wee hours of
> > the morning parked on
> > the old house track behind the Downers Grove depot. I saw it more
> > tha once. This would be
> > early 60's or late 50's. I never found a schedule that showed when
> > it left and where was the
> > first stop. Did it pull into the mainline and back to the depot?
> > Did it load passenger directly
> > into the cars and head east? When was the departure time?
>
>
>
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>
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