[CBQ] Re: Stations on the wrong side of the tracks

["William Barber clipperw@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Charlie,

Shoot, and I'm just getting ready to celebrate my 146th birthday!! That long ago, huh.

Bill Barber

Gravois Mills, MO

On Oct 17, 2015, at 3:00 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Stations on the wrong side of the tracks

Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:32 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Charlie Vlk" n_cbqguy

Bill and Rupert-
We are talking pre-1870 Bill, a little before your time..

1868 Timetable

Central Depot

Chicago Station (roughly at 14th Street and Canal)

Cicero

Hawthorne

Clyde

Chevoit (became Berwyn) (was not on earlier maps)

Lyons (became Riverside) 

West Lyons (later Stone Avenue LaGrange)

Hinsdale

Greggs (became Clarendon Hills)

Downers Grove

Lisle

Naperville

Lund's

Aurora

They were replaced a number of times with the probable exception of Lisle
which may very well be the original 1864 station. All were not built on the
South Side of the tracks...following the Galena Road example Lisle and
Hinsdale were built on the North Side.

The Riverside, logically, I guess, was built in the middle of the end of
double track. Downers Grove, the other major stop at the time, was built
in the middle of the passing track. All but Lisle got replaced when the
second and third tracks were added and apparently Lisle was either shifted
or was far enough away from the tracks so that the fourth track could be
added. I think the fourth main started West of the Downers Grove Station
which by then wouldn't have been impacted anyway since it was on the South
side of the tracks. Nothing about the layout of any of the towns or the
railroad itself would have prevented the stations from being located
differently. I think Lisle stayed the same because it wasn't until the
1970s that it was much of a commuter stop because of the development of
Woodridge and Bollingbrook to the south along Rt. 53.until then it was
pretty rural. Now it is SUVs and shopping centers all the way out to
Sandwich along Rt 34...if it wasn't for the county borders and politics
preventing funding commuter agencies we would have had Double Deckers
terminating a lot further out than Aurora, maybe even up the C&I to Rochelle
as well..

Some of the first stations listed may have been "on the wrong side of the
tracks" as well..I haven't run across early plats of them yet. Most of them
were pretty rural in the 1870s and probably existed more for the milk
business than passengers.

Charlie

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