RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Covered Platforms

[GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@msn.com>]

James:
 
The covered canopies at platforms were definitely not all the same.  I don't know offhand of another location where the canopy was the same or similar to Aurora.  You might look at the covered canopies on the north side at Hinsdale and Riverside to look at those details and get a feel for the distance between supports, but they are not similar to Aurora.  If I recall, Hinsdale and Riverside both have steel support columns, and the ones at Aurora were concrete.
 
Glen Haug 
 

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To: cbQ@yahoogroups.com
From: jameskoretsky@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:17:36 +0000
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Covered Platforms

 

Hi All,

I'd like to thank all those that helped answer my questions on the Aurora, IL depot. I'm moving forward with plans to construct a module set of the depot located here. I've done the design work, and I'm working on some of the details now.

I do have a couple of follow-up questions that I'm hoping others can help me with pertaining to the following photograph:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=231933&nseq=8

Can anyone tell me if all of CB&Q's covered platforms were the same (a common design) and used where necessary at different stations / depots across the system? If not, was the one that used to be located at Aurora used anywhere else and if so which?

Does anyone know of a drawing for these (the pillars and the roof) or have the dimensions for these and how far apart they were spaced? Are there any CB&Q stations / depots where the covered platforms are still standing where one could measure these?

Any and all help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards

James Koretsky

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