Charlie,
The industrial property book shows Nabisco as undeveloped farm land that was then available for development.
Speaking of industries on the “East end” here a few tidbits I’ve learned from conversations with the “old heads” and from researching ETTs and the Aurora lodges files.
-up until right after WWII there were two East end wayfreights. They worked 7 days a week. One started out of Clyde and the other out of Eola and each returned to their origin point. They would normally meet at Downers Grove yard(thanks to Ray Buhrmaster For that info.) to exchange cars.
-the East end wayfreight originating at Eola had 2-4 cars of LCL. This next point I haven’t been able to validate beyond one source. That point was that the Eola based wayfreight had a 3rd brakeman who handled all that LCL, the other two did all the switching.
-I’ve found one file where the East end wayfreight spent over 3 hours switching just Naperville on a particular day.
Much of this info. Was discovered or learned while researching “Operations at Congress Park”. That’s the title of a future Bulletin article That will be an in depth look at the Q/IHB interchange, the Congress Park job,etc,etc,etc. The volume of business through that little 5 track yard is hard to believe, except for those of who handled it.
Leo Phillipp
On Jun 1, 2020, at 2:57 PM, Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:
Dave-
I suspect it is not going to shed any light on sidings from the heyday of service when every block along both sides of the main from Western Avenue to LaVergne and every town had several industries, team tracks, etc..
I haven’t gone into Nabisco or the auto unloading activity which might be in the Industrial Properties Booklet so would like to see what it has eventually.
I do have a Chicago tariff book (IIRC) that lists industries and team tracks but it doesn’t have any map with it.
Just like going to Quincy, Galesburg, etc.. for meets and seeing what the railroad used to be and what industries it used to serve it is sad to think about how much Aurora to Chicago used to make and ship on the railroad….
BTW, great job on the electronic Zephyr….haven’t been on my computer since it came out until now but looked at it on my iPad and it looks like it is going to be a great addition to being a member of the BRHS!!
Thanks,
Charlie
From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of Dave Lotz
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 2:47 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Sidings Book
Charlie,
Would the Q's Industrial Properties Booklet be of any aid?
Dave