Don,
Published passenger service would have ended for Hinckley, IL when the Rockford motor car(round trip each day between Aurora-Rockford) was abolished. I haven’t dug into my Aurora Division employee timetables or the archive trains off report but my memory of reviewing the past is that happened in 1948.
Unscheduled passenger service was then provided by the Oregon Turn wayfreight operating as a mixed train until it also dropped passenger and became a pure wayfreight. There are some interesting stories about the Oregon Turn stopping at road crossings to p/u passengers and instead of collecting a cash fair, payment was made to the crew in the form of farm fresh turkey sandwiches.
Leo Phillipp
On Oct 30, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Don Winn <donswinn@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a little information on the Hinckley, IL depot that I will be scratchbuilding soon.
The 1950 drawing of the 1947 remodeling from the archives (thank you archive guys!) is a great resource.
Did the 1947 remodeling occur when the depot was moved a block to the east?
When did passenger service end in Hinckley? Did that coincide with the move or remodeling?
The remodeling changed the freight area to have a ground level section at the track side door. It looks like this was done to accommodate speeder parking, which suggests it stopped being a depot by 1947 and was now a MOW facility. Is that correct?
Finally, what color would it have been in 1966? I have photos that show it in green in 1959, and other photos that show it in White/Green BN colors sometime in the BN era. Because it has been re-painted with the BN green makes me think it didn't get repainted to white during the end of the CB&Q era. Does that sound right?
Thanks!
Don Winn
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