Guys-
There was a freight house on the south side of the main with a switch just west of Brainerd Avenue….and it had a stub end siding that extended to the east wall of the house.
We know this because there was a description of a local working the two sidings at the Stone Avenue Freight House on September 20, 1915 in a ruling before the Illinois Appellant Court that heard the appeal of the case from on August 3, 1917 originally awarded Richard J. Keefe for injuries sustained as engineer on the Missouri Limited.
The passenger was westbound on the middle track when a freight went into emergency to avoid hitting the waycar of the wayfreight which was on the main. The freight buckled and a boxcar went into the path of the passenger train derailing the locomotive and putting it on its side. The engine, tender, mail car, and smoking car were also derailed. Keefe, the fireman, and a mail clerk were seriously injured. About thirteen others sustained injuries such as broken limbs and bruises.
The 1891 and 1895 Sanborn maps show a freight station at Waiole Avenue just before the lead for the lumber yards further east. Unfortunately they do not show the freight house that is described in the court case which I believe to be the original 1868 brick Lyons Depot moved west.
Somebody has to have an earlier track diagram book that would solve some of these mysteries.
Charlie Vlk