Michael: You have the location right. Photo is looking westward toward Forest Avenue and 4 track signal bridge 21.30. The shovelnose is on back track #52 which left Main 3 just west of the signal bridge, went behind the depot, and tied back into Main 3 just west of Washington St. The turnout in the photo is to spur track #54, which was about 400 feet long, and curved southwesterly across Forest Avenue and stubbed behind a building identified on the station map as the A&P Grocery. The nearest track in the foreground was another stub track (#58) which began off of track #52 behind the depot and ran west and parallel to the main tracks until it stubbed at the east edge of Forest Avenue.
Glen Haug
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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 10:28:19 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] Fwd: [IRMlist] New vintage photos uploaded
Date: November 9, 2014 10:17:40 AM CST
Subject: Re: [IRMlist] New vintage photos uploaded
I'm trying to puzzle out this shot, it looks like it was taken at Forest Ave in Downers Grove during the 1947 wreck clean up....
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