Re: [CBQ] CB&Q 5635

["Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>]

There is a asphalt plant next to 84 Lumber. They have never done anything by rail.

Located a bit further west On the spur that served Moser was Naperville Concrete. To my amazement when I rode the dinky recently I saw that both the old Naperville Concrete and Standard Oil property are in the midst of being converted to residential property.

Leo Phillipp

On Mar 27, 2019, at 7:53 PM, Scott Stearns <scott_b_stearns@hotmail.com> wrote:

Want there some sort of concrete or ready-mix company in the same area of IL 59 - on the north side of the tracks?

Scott Stearns

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:50 PM
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The info. On the coal yard is interesting as I had not been aware of it. Thanks you. My memory is 84 Lumber was a late 70s earlier 80 new customer. 

Leo Phillipp

On Mar 27, 2019, at 7:39 PM, keithnystedt via Groups.Io <keithnystedt=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

Harold Moser purchased the Kluckholm Coal Yard in 1941.  He converted it to a lumber yard when natural gas became plentiful and the demand for coal declined. 

On Mar 27, 2019, at 6:54 PM, keithnystedt via Groups.Io <keithnystedt=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

I doubt that 84 Lumber was there in the age of steam. 

On Mar 27, 2019, at 5:58 PM, Mike Schattl <mike@schattl.com> wrote:

There were two lumberyards in Naperville......The 84 lumberyard by the CB&Q bridge over Rt. 59 and the  other one by the Naperville train station IIRC. Both had rail service at one time.

Mike SchattL

On 3/27/2019 12:58 PM, Charlie Vlk wrote:

Erik-

Don’t know anything about the location but it looks like the bricks are new Chicago Common, not used  bricks which would show some trace of mortar on them and evidence of edge damage from the demolition process.  It could be on the edge of a lumberyard and the corrugated metal was just untidy groundskeeping….

Charlie Vlk

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Erik Spoonmore
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:03 PM
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Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q 5635

 

Hello everyone,
This Bruce Black picture of CB&Q O-5 #5635 was posted on Trainorders.com this morning by Vince Porreca. The caption said it was taken in Naperville March 27, 1952. We were wondering if anyone knew what was along the r.o.w. that was torn down? You see a pile of bricks, corrugated siding and piles of lumber all strung about which adds a lot of visual interest to the shot. So if anyone has any idea what that was our curious minds would like to know :-)

Thanks
Erik Spoonmore

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