Re: [CBQ] Joliet line

[qutlx1@aol.com]

Thanks Charlie

Pretty neat stuff as I didn't know about the Aurora-Joliet research, My comment about Earlville-Sheridan -Joliet was that in our time this was the line to Burgess. I simply suspect that several roads were looking for coal around coal city/Wilmington as the Streator/Ottawa stuff played out and it was my thought that the J simply got there first and given the limited amount of coal the Q decided not to go there.

Leo

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On May 8, 2013, at 9:16 AM, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:

 

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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