Greetings Listers,
I also am a member of the IlliniRail list and this came up this morning
that was of interest to you all.
Tom Koch
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From: IlliniRail@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IlliniRail@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Joel G. Kirchner
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:59 AM
To: IlliniRail@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IlliniRail] Historic "Q" Trackage Removed
The out of service BNSF trackage in West Chicago east of the EJ&E was
finally removed by a contractor a couple of weeks ago. Specifically the
rail and a few ties on either side of Wood St. This was the
original "Q" line to access Chicago before building the "racetrack".
Trains would operate over the G&CU (CNW) to Chicago.
In later years this was used by the "BN Transfer", as we called it on
the CNW, to interchange cars with the CNW. I don't recall exactly when
the diamond over the EJ&E was removed, but it was sometime in the late
1990's.
Sorry to see the trackge go. I always thought the city should have
gotten their stuff together and made that area a park. The old "Q"
depot would have been close to it's original location(maybe the exact
location??)and they would have had tracks alongside it to put something
on static display. Oh well....
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