The MI&L was always a marginal road. Amazingly enough, portions of the roadbed
can still be traced, especially in Industry, Illinois. You can see the line
curving into town from the north side of town on a fill, and see where the old
depot was as it got to the north side of town.
The railroad always had trouble with its line in Macomb, being run down a
street. The line went into disrepair and that got it in trouble with Macomb.
As far as the Macomb Switcher goes, this is the first that I have heard of
that. Somewhere, buried in a stygian grot of stored stuff, I have a history of
the MI&L that I will obviously have to dig out now.
Kam Miller
Carthage
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Randall Hicks" <randallhicks@...> wrote:
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@> wrote:
> >
> > What happened to the MI&L?
> >
>
> Funny you should ask. My son Frank went to Western Illinois at Macomb, and
> while there he did the research for a small book he wrote about the MI&L,
> published by the WIU Press, entitled "The Little Road" -- that's how the
> Macomb papers referred to the MI&L. The Q of course was the big road. One
> of the duties of the Macomb switcher was to pull the shortline's passenger
> train the last mile or so to the Burlington depot.
>
> Unfortunately the book is now out of print. You can't have my copy, it's
> autographed by the author! Ebay, maybe?
>
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