Re: [CBQ] Re: Roundhouse(s) in Downers Grove

["GLEN glenehaug@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

To expand on Bob's message about the DG turntables and roundhouse, an old station map shows the center of the 59'-9" turntable virtually in line with the centerline of Oakwood Avenue, and about 115' south of the south line of Warren Avenue.  The 8 stall roundhouse doors were about 55' west of the west edge of the turntable.  The track centers were 11'-6" at the doors.  The roundhouse was 65' deep except for stalls 6 and 7 (numbered from the south), which were 75' deep.

The turntable lead track was at about a 30 degree angle with the main tracks in a WNW direction, and directly in  line with stall 5.  When the 80' turntable was constructed, the lead was extended beyond the 1902 turntable along the same angle.  The center of the 80' turntable was located about 85' west (and slightly north) of the center of the 1902 turntable, so it would have required removal of the roundhouse, since the roundhouse would have interfered with it's construction.

Glen Haug

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The location of the second and third turntables in Downers Grove was just south of the intersection of Warren Avenue and Oakwood Avenue.  In 1902, a new 59' 9" deck girder TT was installed and handled K-class 4-6-0s. At least through 1930, there was an 8-stall wooden round house on the west side of the turntable, that would just barely hold the ten-wheelers. In 1936, an 80' TT built in 1910 was brought to DG from Creston, IA to replace the 59' 9" TT in order to handle the S-1 and S-2 class Pacifics that replaced the ten-wheelers in suburban service. It is believed that the round house was removed about the same time in 1936. After the DG suburban terminal was closed in September, 1952 and moved to Aurora, the DG turntable remained in service for another couple of years while O1As were still used on the East End wayfreight, probably removed about 1954/1955. It is rumored the DG TT bridge girders were used to support the north end of the High Street bridge in Aurora. Turntable data from Dave Lotz and Steve Holding; RH data from A.W. Johnson photograph 6/9/1929. I don't have any DG TT information from 1892/1893 until 1902.

Bob Campbell

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Posted by: GLEN <glenehaug@msn.com>

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