Re: [CBQ] La Grange Presentatio

["Charlie Vlk cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

I checked the West Towns book and it doesn't have anything that shows the CB&Q freight houses or depots beyond the photos shared here.

Did, however, get caught up reading about the LaGrange West Towns line....

Charlie Vlk

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On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Tom Hammer hammermann1911@outlook.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

La Grange had several things going on the North side.

A team track.  A spur to Lord Lumber and a spur to the National Guard Building.

The National Guard building would look like a freight house. What would a kid know.

We were playing around a tank parked out side the NG and I cranked he turret around and

busted out a window. OOps...

I never knew about a freight house as such.. Except the REA.

I was in 8th grade then...  Tom Hammer

On 2/27/2017 1:29 PM, LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:

 

February 27, 2017

 

Leo - I do have one attached/inserted image that barely shows one of the freight house sidings at LaGrange:

 

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The image dated September 1954 shows a beautifully painted and polished exhibition locomotive No. 35 with its H&StJ mail car placed for public display. Perhaps, you or another reader can tell us the exact location between LaGrange Road and Stone Avenue. No. 35 is right alongside the main(s) and not roped off to keep the public off the high speed right-of-way. It would be very different today..... Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL 

 

In a message dated 2/26/2017 4:22:44 P.M. Central Standard Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

Tom, Leo -

Check CERA Bulletin #138 for photos of Chicago & West Towns Railways at LaGrange Rd and Stone Ave. terminal.

Bob

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