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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