- 1. [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 22:09:52 +0000
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent f
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00063.html (11,058 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:13:08 -0500
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00064.html (12,983 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:18:54 -0500
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00065.html (13,002 bytes)
- 4. RE: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 20:18:00 -0500
- Actually the Newberry has quite a few references to the CB&Qs interest in running a line to Joliet. They surveyed a line that would loop around through Joliet to tap the Coal City / Braidwood area
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00068.html (14,860 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 01:36:32 +0000
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00069.html (13,984 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 20:34:07 -0500
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00070.html (14,659 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 01:43:39 +0000
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00071.html (14,546 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 21:01:20 -0500
- Looking through the Aurora Beacon Feb 18, 1881, I noticed it mentioned the CBQ was surveying a line for either Mendota or Earlville to Sheridan to Joliet. Anyone know anything about this? Doug Sent
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00074.html (15,258 bytes)
- 9. Fwd: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 22:36:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Wonder who outmanuevered whom as according to Dorins "The Elgin,Joliet and Eastern" the year 1891 saw the Gardner,Coal City and Nothern folded into the EJ&E. The 1906 map shows the line complete from
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00076.html (18,391 bytes)
- 10. RE: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 09:16:12 -0500
- Leo- IIRC Francis Edward Hinckley (the builder of the Chicago & Iowa) was involved in the early efforts to build a Aurora-Joliet road. The CB&Q was not “outmaneuvered”, the correspondence
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00111.html (15,129 bytes)
- 11. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: qutlx1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 19:29:36 -0500
- Leo- IIRC Francis Edward Hinckley (the builder of the Chicago & Iowa) was involved in the early efforts to build a Aurora-Joliet road. The CB&Q was not outmaneuvered, the correspondence on the subje
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00120.html (15,642 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: dhartman@mchsi.com
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 01:15:24 +0000
- Leo- IIRC Francis Edward Hinckley (the builder of the Chicago & Iowa) was involved in the early efforts to build a Aurora-Joliet road. The CB&Q was not outmaneuvered, the correspondence on the subje
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00121.html (16,514 bytes)
- 13. RE: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:26:07 -0500
- From what I can recall of the correspondence the coal fields were the prime attraction. Of course, Joliet was a major steelmaking and industrial center at the time so there would have been other tra
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00123.html (13,266 bytes)
- 14. Re: [CBQ] Joliet line (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schnepf <railsunl@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 20:55:59 -0500
- Hello, You should keep in mind the EJ&E was originally built from the coal mines, through Joliet to Spaulding (east of Elgin) and the Milwaukee Road connection to provide the Milwaukee with coal. The
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2013-05/msg00136.html (12,673 bytes)
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