RE: [CBQ] Joliet line

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

Leo-

IIRC Francis Edward Hinckley (the builder of the Chicago & Iowa) was involved in the early efforts to build a Aurora-Joliet road.

The CB&Q was not “outmaneuvered”, the correspondence on the subject seems to indicate they simply did not see a need for the line.

Charlie Vlk

 

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Subject: Fwd: [CBQ] Joliet line

 

 

Wonder who outmanuevered whom as according to Dorins "The Elgin,Joliet and Eastern" the year 1891 saw the Gardner,Coal City and Nothern folded into the EJ&E. The 1906 map shows the line complete from Plainfield(Walker) to So. Wilmington. By 1951 the line ends at Goose Lake.

 

Probably a good thing the Q didnt build east from Sheridan as the farther North in Illinois you go the less coal is in the ground.

 

Leo

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