[CBQ] Small town stations

["trains@davidstreeter.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>]

I recently acquired a copy of the Burlington Bulletin about the '56 
Denver Zephyr (fascinating, more information about the DZ and other 
trains than I would have thought existed). One particular photo got me 
wondering something.
The great photo on the top of page 124 shows the train passing through 
Leland, Ill. (Despite living in Illinois all my life, I'd never heard of 
Leland until a few years ago.) The caption states that in 1963, one 
could still take a train from small towns like Leland (not the DZ, of 
course). It shows the train passing a platform of bricks with grass 
between them, level with the ties. My question is, were small-town 
platforms built that way, level with the ties, or were they once at or 
above the top of the rails like in larger towns? If they were higher, 
did they sink? Were the tracks raised? (I have seen cases where BNSF has 
raised a track, then altered a road crossing to have a hump that didn't 
exist before.) I would think that if they sank, they wouldn't be as even 
as the one in the photo appears to have been. I would also think that it 
would indicate a surprising number of years of neglect. I've always 
assumed old platforms got to look the way they do just in the time that 
has passed since they stopped being used altogether.
--
David Streeter



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