Re: [CBQ] CB&Q 5635

["Erik Spoonmore" <Spoony81@att.net>]

Thanks everyone for the replies, with all the stuff piled so close to the r.o.w. we where just curious what was in that area and that seems to be cleared up

Erik Spoonmore

On Thursday, March 28, 2019, 8:19:54 AM CDT, William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> wrote:

The updated 1943 Sanborn map for Naperville shows it being Moser Fuel and Supply Company. There were two coal silos then. From the building layout on the Sanborn map, even then lumber and construction supply was the primary business.

My family moved to Naperville in the summer of 1967 (into a house in one of Harold Moser's developments) when the population was a little over 12,000. Our house was next to a corn/soybean field the entire 8 years we lived there (south of Knoch Park - much larger then) and we were on the western Naperville city limit. It maybe hard to believe today, but the area around Illinois 59 (as was the area just immediately west of Naperville) was nearly all open farmland until the mid 1970s.

Bill Hirt

On 3/27/2019 7:39 PM, keithnystedt via 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:

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