The Sanborn map shows the track terminated in front of the Naperville
Electric Light and Water Works. There was a coal shed just to the west
which was associated with Enck & Drendell Coal, Grain and Cider Mill.
There is also Bulk Oil dealer shown near the spur along Jackson Street
just east of Ewing.
Bill Hirt
On 8/27/2010 12:05 PM, roy wojahn wrote:
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> From: roy wojahn<zuch2rew@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Burlington park 100 years ago
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, August 27, 2010, 7:06 AM
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> That is correct. There was a sort of team track just west of downtown where
> coal was off-loaded from hoppers. Not sure who received the coal. IIRC, the
> track was in the middle of the street.
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> From: qutlx1@aol.com<qutlx1@aol.com>
> Subject: [CBQ] Burlington park 100 years ago
> To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, August 27, 2010, 7:01 AM
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> Some years ago the industrial spur along the south side of the mains at
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> Naperville continued westward past the current Ozinga concrete plant and the
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> old Standard Oil bulk plant.Then turned southward into the woods. More than
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> one old head told me that at one time the track went all the way down to
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> the Quarry and was referred to as the "river track"
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> Leo Phillipp
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