Leo
I spent saturday morning with PK Hannah. We have hung around together since he
bumped in to Cicero from Hannibal. He takes me to shows as his Cicero Wheel
Man and Muscle(he deals in paper) As well as being the editor for the Railway
Station Historical Society. He grabbed his Baldwin History of the Q(you can
down load it on line) He thinks the building might have been the Aurora Station
for the C&I with the Middle Ave trackage the main from Depot to South Aurora
where the main headed out the old C&I alighnment.
The C&I opened in Jan 1871 and was not leased by the Q until July of 1892. His
earliest timetable is 1888 and thinks before that the timetables were printed
in the papers and suggests we look in the VERY early papers for the station
locations.
The argument sounds good as the C&I was independent for the years before the
lease came about. On the flip side the predecssor road that built the Fox
River line bypassed the downtown area circleing around and north on its way to
Geneva(City Fathers may have been pressured not to allow them thru town by the
growing CB&Q) Later the Geneva branch and now called NIFA(altough most people
do not know what NIFA stands for)
What would be your thoughts??
I may try and stop at the State Historical Lib(under the old state capital) on
my way north to Rockford
Steve
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From: "qutlx1@aol.com" <qutlx1@aol.com>
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:13:13 AM
Subject: [CBQ] West Aurora depot/frt house
Thanks Steve.
The 1967 edition of the track/engineering drawing still shows what I think
is a property number (#11) on the structure. The next building to the West
and across the tracks(the glass repair business) shows being sold to
Magill(Budweiser Distributor) in 1930. So this makes me want to know what the
Q
used that building for up until then(a new frt house ?) The next building
still further west was sold to Miller Packing 11/61 so again wonder what the
Q had in there. Looks like I'll be researching at the Aurora Historical
Society and the Beacon archives at the Aurora library.
I remember switching Baker Feeds at Baker,just down the branch from
Earlville, in the mid 70s.
Leo
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