Re: [CBQ] Newspapers at Downers Grove

[archie hayden <kliner@mywdo.com>]

It is another track that angles down toward the street, and yes the lines of the freight house are classic Q wooden depot.  They were famous for recycling buildings like this.  We discussed that thread a while back.  Archie

On Jan 8, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Michael Matalis wrote:

To me it looks like there are two tracks behind the station, the first is the one with the boxcar on it, the other is in the foreground, but I'm not sure if it's a track or just some rough grass.

Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis

Downers Grove IL

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On Jan 8, 2012, at 12:17 AM, roy wojahn wrote:

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This has nothing to do with newspapers but about the freight house at Downers.  Even though I grew up there, I never knew where the freight house was.  Here is a photo from the Downers Grove Reporter looking west in 1935 showing the Main St. station and the freight house to the west.  Another mystery in my life is solved.

--- On Thu, 12/15/11, qutlx1@aol.com <qutlx1@aol.com> wrote:

From: qutlx1@aol.com <qutlx1@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Newspapers off the Dinkies
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 5:57 PM

Thanks Glen I have requested permission to use the shot 

The brakeman/collector in that shot is "Enie" Howell with whom I worked a # of times

Leo

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On Dec 15, 2011, at 7:50 PM, GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com> wrote:

 

Leo:
 
There is one such photo, on page 29 of the December 1988 issue of Passenger Train Journal.  It was in Part One of an article entltled "Land of the Burlingtons", by the late Ed DeRouin.  The caption indicates that the photo was taken by Gib Allbach in 1973, so it is in the BN era, but the equipment is still all former Q.

 

The photo shows what appears to be a westbound evening rush hour commuter stopped on Main 1 at Downers Grove Main Street.  There is no motor in the picture, as the photo is taken along side of the head end of the generator-baggage-coach.  There is a good view of the trainman in the open door of either 7300 or 7301, who has just dropped several bundles of newspapers onto the brick platform at the west edge of Main Street.  The photo would never pass for a pre-merger shot, be cause you can barely make out the BN logo at the rear of the generator car.

 

Glen Haug
 

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To: cbq@yahoogroups.com; brhslist@Yahoogroups.com
From: qutlx1@aol.com
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:50:49 -0500
Subject: [CBQ] Newspapers off the Dinkies

 

Need a photo for a submitted BRHS article that is complete and hopefully will be publsihed down the road. Need a photo showing the afternoon newspapers being loaded or unloaded(kicked off) on/from a dinky.

 

The article deals with MB&E on the dinkies and I think we'll all see how extensive the service really was,the one photo I dont have is of the newspapers.

 

Anyone ?

 

Leo Phillipp

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