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From: "'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:35:50 -0500
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A while back I started to develop an analysis of Chicago Division Station locations but unfortunately did not note the source for the data from the 1868 and 1874 timetables.

The recent eBay listing of a June 28, 1881 Suburban Timetable provides some good information.

The October 25, 1964 Employee TT No. 9 has “modern” mileages between Chicago Union Station and the post track elevation Aurora Station.   With enough input it should be possible to extrapolate the older stations / station names into modern context.   Some slight adjustment of station locations due to erection of new depots and conversion of the old to freight stations (Downers Grove, Naperville) might account for slight differences in MP citations.    Some Employee TTs from Leo Phillip provide more data.

Not sure if the MPs were adjusted for the new location of Chicago Union Station.   Fifth Avenue LaGrange should be an anchor point for comparison.   The Riverside station at the building of the mainline was located in the middle of the mains west of the location of the current and predecessor stations.   There was a station located in the Southwest quadrant of the CC&IC (Panhandle) grade level junction; the street Western Avenue is somewhat east (a block or two?) of that location and perhaps it was also “Western Avenue” prior to the track elevation of the Western Avenue yard and mainline in the vicinity. 

Published distances between stations seem to vary a little for some reason.

Charlie Vlk

If anyone has Employee Timetables, Pubic Timetables, or other material showing MP locations for Chicago-Aurora stations I would appreciate scans that are identified as to source…..I am developing a spreadsheet that will show published mileposts and will add a column converting them to modern MP for orientation.  Have C&A Timecard #4 for August 14, 1854,  January 1875 Official Guide, CB&Q June 28, 1881 Suburban TT, 1895 ETT #196, April 28, 1925 ETT #43, and October 25, 1964 ETT #9.

cvlk@comcast.net

 

Some of the station names unearthed or possible not necessarily in order:

TT for locations on C&NW and St. Charles Air Line via Junction /Turner Junction / West Chicago and Aurora Branch prior to building of Chicago & Aurora direct line.

Central Depot (IC Lakefront)

Van Buren Street (IC Lakefront)

Prairie Avenue (on St. Charles Airline

Chicago Union Depot (original and new)

Chicago Station (at PRR grade level crossing prior to Chicago River straightening?)

16th & Canal Streets

Halsted Street

Blue Island Avenue

Western Avenue

CC&IC Crossing

Douglas Park

Milliard Avenue

Lawndale

Crawford   (siding went north along Crawford Avenue to a racetrack)

Cicero

Hyman Avenue

Hawthorne

Morton Park

Clyde

LaVerne

Berwyn

Chevoit

Harlem Avenue

Riverside

Lyons

Hollywood / East Grossdale

Brookfield / Grossdale

Congress Park / West Grossdale

La Grange / Fifth Avenue / La Grange Road

West Lyons

LaGrange Stone Avenue

Western Springs

Highlands

Hinsdale

West Hinsdale

Clarendon Hills

Greggs

Westmont

East Grove/Fairview Avenue

Downers Grove

Belmont

Lacton

Lisle

Napervile

Lund’s

Decorah

Eola

West Eola

Aurora

West Aurora / South Aurora

 

 

 

 

 






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