W/o benefit of my ETTs, my memory says the IV & N way freight started out of Streator,turned at Zearing after Connections with thru trains and headed back to Dtreator Red Lynch was the long time Condr. He told me The job worked 16 hours everyday right up nail the It was abolished, my understanding is a lot of this time Was spent waiting at La Salle and/or Zearing waiting on connections Rip Repetto used to talk about coal and bananas coming off the IC at La Salle.
After the IV & N way freight came off and maybe even Before a freight from Galesburg eastbound made a a side trip to Streator or La Salle.
At some point a job out of Mendota made a round trip To La Salle.
Of course back in the day there were a lot more Movements
Leo
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I found a neat photo in the NIU Digital Library W.W. Embree collection taken at Zearing in 1949 showing a wayfreight heading eastward out of the south yard onto the IV&N (I'm attempting to include the link in this message). BTW - the station is misattributed as a CGW station about which I have notified the library.
So, this raises the question -- what were Q operations like on the west end of the IV&N in the 1960's? Where did trains originate and terminate on the west end of the line? If trains did not originate and terminate at Zearing, where did they?
Chicago Great Western, Zearing, Illinois Station | Regional History Center and University Archives Digital Collections
Rick Woods Rockton, IL
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