Another factor is when a station had platforms vs. low level bricks. I
am modelling the depot in Wyoming, IL and I have photos of both a
(somewhat) raised wooden platform in the early years, then changing to
flat bricks later on. The Sanborn fire maps also show a larger wooden
platform. So sometime between 1910ish and the late 1950's, it was
replaced. You would need to research your specific location(s) to see if
that happened and if so, when.
James Kantor
On 2/23/2023 2:15 AM, trains@davidstreeter.net wrote:
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.
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