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Re: [CBQ] Spurs off the Chicago-Aurora Mainline

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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 03:21:17 +0000 (UTC)
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By '73 working at Congress Park we would send the Congo out west with North and West cars for 185 and 351 to pick up and used both the tracks at Hinsdale and Downers Grove for the set outs.  Many of the spurs were used to park tamping equipment but the problem was maintenance of the switches so they were slowly ripped out forcing the tampers to be tied up in Cicero and the time loss in traveling the machine out every day to the job site and get it in the clear for Dinky Time.
Steve in SC



On Friday, April 3, 2015 5:37 PM, "qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Thanks Bill

Leo

On Apr 3, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
On 4/3/2015 3:33 PM, qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:
 
The industrial tracks at West Hinsdale came off main 1 eastward. The switch was directly across from where the Hinsdale municipal pool is today on the south side. Can't think of the name of the cross street at that point. There was an inside switch with a short spur going westward about a car length. It may have been longer in past times.
The track going east was parallel to the main and then another split off to a lower elevation. There may have been more in the past. The one next to the mainline went all the way back to  the second street xing west of the Hinsdale depot. Soltwich (sp) Plumbing,or what preceded it seems to have been one customer. I've been told these tracks also went to the Hinsdale Freight
house. In the 70s a company was receiving box cars of bricks on this spur. Pretty regularly at a couple cars a week.

The latest Sanborn maps for Hinsdale (updated 1947) show the siding came off between Bodin and Monroe Streets. Bodin ended at the tracks and siding crossed Monroe Street going east. The siding continued and then crossed Vine Street. Continuing it shows the siding serving a contractor yard before crossing Lincoln Street and terminating prior to Washington Street. Though one always has to be careful with track placement on Sanborn maps, the track placement is fairly consistent in several series starting in 1898. The 1909 series maps do show track reconfiguration when the new depot was built in Hinsdale depot was built on the south side of the main. The maps also show the names of streets changed over the years, so it is possible they changed again after the period which the Sanborn maps are available.

Bill Hirt





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