[CBQ] Aurora Branch Railroad and Turner Junction depot

["Philip Weibler" <pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net>]

Hello Rupert, Charlie, and CBQlist - 
The West Chicago City Museum - present day caretakers of the Aurora Branch RR 
Turner Junction depot - is searching for answers to two relevant questions:
1) Was the Aurora Branch built "from Aurora northerly twelve miles to a 
connection with the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad......at Turner 
Junction...", or was it built south from Turner Junction?  The first locomotive 
to operate on the line, the G&CU (C&NW) PIONEER, would have been made available 
at the Junction, and one might suppose that construction materials would also 
have been delivered there.
Has anyone found any historically valid report on the building of this line?
2) Does anyone have documentation to show when the existing Turner Junction 
depot was built?  The information may be available on r-o-w maps or on 
valuation reports.  This depot must be one of the oldest CB&Q depots extant.

The West Chicago City Museum hopes to have the depot open to visitors  - at 
least on a limited basis - by this coming Spring, in time for the BRHS Spring 
Meet on April 18th.

Thanks to Rupert for posting the link to the 1928 Documentary History of the 
CB&Q, which gave rise to these questions.  However, it will take a while to get 
my tongue straightened out after tripping over "Oquawka" several times.
PAW

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