Re: [CBQ] Request for Aurora-Chicago material

["Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

August 8, 2018

Ray and Michael - Guess we ought to lay to rest some of the other "urban myths" about Q steam that still surface from time to time such as the O-1-A that was purchased by a southern Illinois hospital to use as a boiler.  It was supposedly lowered into the basement and bricked over where it still provides steam heat in wintertime.  Then, there's the O-5-A that was rolled over into a pit at Northwestern Steel & Wire and buried to provide scrap at some later date. My favorite myth remains the M-4-A supposedly lurking inside some farmer's barn in southern Illinois kept company by a herd of cows. Such myths get around, I've heard the same stories about V&T locomotives that Lucius Beebe had hidden away in old comstock mine tunnels. I think we'd have a better shot at finding the lost Treasure of the Sierra Madre than any of the above mentioned Q steam power. But, we can always dream..... Best Regards - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL   

In a message dated 8/8/2018 1:07:17 PM Central Standard Time, tczephyr@hotmail.com writes:

Louis,

 

WOW!!!  There's an M4-A in a barn in southern Illinois? Where is it? I would love to take some photos of it? I didn't know that any of the M4's were preserved. 

 

I did here that there are several Virginia and Truckee engines hiding in various tunnels in the Sierra's foothills out side of Reno, but no one has found them yet. 

 

What about the Treasures of the Sierra Madre? I saw the movie and wonder if it was found as well. 

 

Ray Bedard

San Jose Ca

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Request for Aurora-Chicago material

August 8, 2018

Charlie - You're right, pre-1900 historical images of the Q's Aurora-Chicago line are as rare as a M-4-A hidden away in a south Illinois farmer's barn.......

I've attached a post card view dated 1907 of the "Five-Eleven" dinky stopped at Hinsdale.  Note the mixed consist of wood passenger cars including the combine used for newspapers and express shipments. The small crates being unloaded might be chicks for a poultry/egg farm.

GOOD LUCK in your continued hunt for images and other data.  Best Regards - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 8/7/2018 6:39:55 PM Central Standard Time, cvlk@comcast.net writes:

All-

 

I have been working on documenting the history of the Aurora-Chicago line of the CB&Q dating from the inauguration of the Aurora Branch Railroad up to the BN merger.  .   I’ve uncovered a great deal of information about the Aurora-Chicago line (including some surprises!!) but because of the Chicago Fire, the CB&Q Headquarters Fire, and who knows why there seems to be a lack of photographic coverage of the earlier days of the CB&Q in the Chicago Area!!!

 

Does anyone have a master list of the numbers and dates of issue for all the Chicago and Aurora Division Employee Timetables that are known?

I am trying to establish the date of inauguration for various stations on the Aurora-Chicago main line and short of finding dates of construction comparing ETTs seems to be the best way of doing this.  

 

Still having difficulty finding photos of depots at:

Indiana Avenue (on pre-track elevation St. Charles Air Line)

Chicago / 16^th & Canal (1855-1910)

Blue Island Avenue

Western Avenue (pre-track elevation) both north and south of tracks

CC&IC Crossing

Douglas Park (pre-and post- track elevation)

Millard Avenue (pre- track elevation….the one in the Arcadia Lawndale book is Lawndale, MN on the GN!!)

Crawford Avenue

Western Indiana Station

Cicero (frame building)

Hawthorne

Morton Park

Clyde (have line drawing of original depot)

LaVergne / Cheviot (prior to 1890)

Harlem Avenue (prior to 1890)

Riverside Roundhouse and Turntable

Kennsington (pre-5^th Avenue Stone building)

Stone Avenue (prior to 1902 present building)

Bryn Mawyr

Burlington Heights
Stough

Lacton

DuPage / Burlington Park

Eola / Lunds Depot

       

      ANY previously unpublished photos pre-1900 on the Aurora-Chicago line of locomotives, trains, and ROW.    There was a Chicago photographer named P.B. Greene who published a series of pre-Chicago fire stereopticon images….a few examples have surfaced in a series called “Views in Chicago and Vicinity” with Number 126 called “Gems at Riverside”.   They show the original single track bridge over the Des Plaines River c.1870 and a couple of other views.   There must be more such shots taken, likely with the photographer getting off the train, taking pictures, and getting back on the train to shoot the next town.   What a find they would be, especially if a few included some equipment and stations!!!

  

 Also seeking photos of the Track Elevation Project in Chicago.   Compared to other railroads, the coverage for the CB&Q is slim.   Only one very poor shot of the section west of Western Avenue has surfaced and a small number of Western Avenue-Halsted.

 

Please contact me off-list if you have any pictures or know of anyone that might have such early photos

Thank you,

Charlie Vlk

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