Its a short segement but it talks about it for a few minutes and there are a few pictures shown in WTTW (Chicago PBS) "Northwest of Chicago" hosted by Geoffrey Baer, Illinois Railway Museum also has a short segement in the show as well.
Watching the show is were I first heard about the railroad.
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I don't know of anyone living that saw it first-hand, but there is an out of print book on it. I've found many parts of the old right of way, and I've found lots of artifacts; like spikes, trackbolts, a fishplate, and a ball peen hammer. The most apparent spot of where the tracks were is at the remains of an old trestle east of Quentin RD, and on the north side of Dundee RD.
There are a couple of old ICC decisions on it, but I don't have access to them at home. If you have access to a good law library, look up the name of the railroad in the "Hawkins Digest" of ICC decisions, and then go to the ICC reports to see the decisions. Just off the top of my head, I recall that this line went through a couple of name changes and, at one time, was supposed to be an electric line (it may even have had the word "Traction" in one of its names), although that never happened. I've also seen the CNW real estate valuation maps for Palatine, which shows the PLZ&W's terminal and interchange facilities quite clearly (real estate valuation maps are great for showing a "snapshot" of rail facilities around 1917 or so).
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