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Two sorta dumb questions about a rare sighting and CNW operations
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by eolafan</i> <br /><br /> <br />2. (This one I find hard to believe). The lumber for the stations along the suburban line was dumped off of the left side of the freight cars for the first few and so they simply built the stations where the building materials layed rather than move it. Sounds kind of strange to me. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Interesting, but some of the towns along these lines pre-date the railroads and were served by plank roads. Old Chicago was a major trans-shipment center for grain going east via the Great Lakes & Erie Canal. When the railroads were built, the stations were probably located closest to the main part of town and on the C&NW west line the oldest part of many towns is north of the tracks. <br /> <br />On the CB&Q line, the old Lisle Station was originally on the north side of the tracks. It was moved to the south side when commuter service was expanded past Downers Grove. When the current modern station was built, the old one was moved again to it's current location in a park north of the tracks. <br /> <br />The C&NW North line probably had some of it's original stations located east of the line, as the well-off folks lived along the lakefront, while the poorer towns were west of the tracks.
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