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[CBQ] The Q in Downers Grove History Presentation May 2nd 6:30-8:00PM

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Subject: [CBQ] The Q in Downers Grove History Presentation May 2nd 6:30-8:00PM
From: "Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:39:23 -0400
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This year the Downers Grove Historical Society,Downers Grove Museum and the 
Park district are highlighting the arrival and history of the Burlington in 
Downers Grove as the theme of their annual Founders Day, multi-day festivities.

These organizations have invited the BRHS to give a presentation on "The 
History of the Burlington Route in Downers Grove" . This will cover the 
arrival, development and changes on the line through the BN merger. I will be 
using internal Q documents, engineering drawings, plat and Sanborn maps. The 
bulk of the presentation will be photos from the BRHS Flicker site(only BRHS 
members have access) and especially numerous photos loaned by the sponsoring 
organizations, many of which I had never seen before. 

Some of the topics to be covered are the depots,roundhouses, interlocking 
towers, the suburban train yard, team and industry tracks and the industries 
they served. Some time will be devoted to the 1947 Twin Zephyr derailment into 
the depot.  However given an hour and a half presentation, time will not allow 
deep dive studies of any particular subject. The audience will be referred to 
particular BRHS publications for those insights.
The company store will be at this event.

Seating is limited to 80 and registration is required. In talking with the 
sponsors last week the auditorium was already 25% full and they were expecting 
seats to continue filling. So I encourage those interested to register soon in 
one of the following ways for class 220003-01.

Telephone:630-963-1300
https://webtrac.dgparks.org/wbwsc/webtrac.wsc/SPLASH.html

LOCATION:
Lincoln Center-Henry Breasted Auditorium
935 Maple Ave
Downers Grove,IL

This information is also available on the BRHS website.

This facility is a two-three block walk from the Downers Grove Main St. Station.

Hope to see you there.

Leo Phillipp

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