David,
I like your idea about paralleling bypass 30 which was developed in the early
60s at the insistence of Aurora mayor Paul Egan. (Most folks look at me with a
blank stare when I say bypass 30). As that would allow the C&I to swing south
from around Sugar Grove.
By the way the first 6 tracks at Eola date to about 1910/1911 as a prepatory
move as to compensate for Aurora yard tracks lost to the upcoming elevation.
Leo Phillipp
> On Jun 8, 2023, at 11:11 AM, trains@davidstreeter.net wrote:
>
> I could see such a line roughly paralleling the present-day US 30 (which
> itself is a relatively new bypass; I had a friend who was born in 1968 and
> called it Bypass 30) from where it crosses the Q south of Montgomery to its
> junction with US 34, then that to the parcel of land the Q owned on the west
> side of Naperville ("Nabisco"). I could also see that line turning north to
> parallel the EJ&E to Eola. An awful lot of things would be different today if
> either of these had happened.
>
> I don't see how a line starting 25+ miles southwest of Montgomery and going
> west could have had anything to do with it.
>
> --
> David Streeter
>
>> On 6/8/2023 10:00 AM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io wrote:
>> Last night I spent a very enjoyable and educational hour reading articles
>> on the new BRHS Digital library. Rupert and Jack are to be commended. It’s
>> easy to use and a literal gold mine for research on the Q.
>>
>> I focused on the section about “Depots,Stations and Freight Stores” (would
>> suggest changing this to Depots,Stations,Freight houses and Storehouses). As
>> an example of what’s now at our fingertips, I learned so much I didn’t know
>> about the construction of the Aurora elevation despite previously reading
>> everything I could find on the subject.
>>
>> One line in one of the articles stated the Q studied an Aurora,IL bypass
>> that would have been 16 miles long around Aurora to avoid all the street
>> crossings. It was eventually decided against it. Then the city of Aurora
>> made the decision to elevate mandatory with an ordinance. Despite looking
>> through Q annual reports from 1907-1915 I could learn nothing more about the
>> potential bypass. From my operational experiences my guess is would have
>> swung east a bit before Montgomery and run NE to around Naperville.
>> Charlie Vlk once mentioned that based on his research, he believed the
>> Joliet,Rockford and Northern, commonly known as the Burgess Jct. To Paw Paw
>> line was part of the bypass. Based on what I read last night that the Q
>> researched the bypass in 1908 while the J.R.&N. was built in 1881(I believe
>> to move Streator coal north via Paw Paw and Shabbona or
>> Rockfalls/Sterling/Denrock) that likely was not the case.
>>
>> Does anyone have additional info. On the potential Aurora bypass ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leo Phillipp
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