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| Jamie Snyder posted |
Jamie's comment: "CGW westbound passing the future Anaconda plant in Sycamore il. Late 1930s...courtesy of the Joiner history room in Sycamore."
This is one of those tough crossings to find because all of the railroads have been gone for a while. Because of the tree lines and grain elevator, it is pretty obvious that the CGW mainline went along Page Street. Both CGW and C&NW had routes between Sycamore and DeKalb.
South of Bethany Road, you can see the tree line of one of the routes to DeKalb. That must have been C&NW because it continues to the UP/C&NW branch that still goes south of Earlville and connected with the C&NW mainline.
The tower was just north of Sacramento and Page Streets. Sacramento Street was the C&NW route through town. It continued across what became part of the Anaconda plant and left town on what is now Brickville Road.
The CGW branch curved south to parallel Ellen Street. It then curved its way east to parallel the C&NW route south to DeKalb. A power line now follows the old RoW. Stark Avenue still parallels the old RoW.
The Anaconda plant closed in 2004 (Topix), but it appears that it has been repurposed.
A Flickr photo of the 1887 depot includes a history of the CGW depot.
This is one of those tough crossings to find because all of the railroads have been gone for a while. Because of the tree lines and grain elevator, it is pretty obvious that the CGW mainline went along Page Street. Both CGW and C&NW had routes between Sycamore and DeKalb.
South of Bethany Road, you can see the tree line of one of the routes to DeKalb. That must have been C&NW because it continues to the UP/C&NW branch that still goes south of Earlville and connected with the C&NW mainline.
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| 1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
The CGW branch curved south to parallel Ellen Street. It then curved its way east to parallel the C&NW route south to DeKalb. A power line now follows the old RoW. Stark Avenue still parallels the old RoW.
The Anaconda plant closed in 2004 (Topix), but it appears that it has been repurposed.
A Flickr photo of the 1887 depot includes a history of the CGW depot.
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| 1968 Sycamore Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| A Harold J. Krewer enhancement of a photo posted by Bill Latimer from NIU We're at Sycamore, Il. on August 15th, 1939 awaiting some CGW activity, as a C&NW train passes Great Western tower. Conrad Baker I think, but am not 100% certain that the track in the foreground was the CGW's DeKalb branch. Interesting how this ended up being the surviving piece of trackage in Sycamore for a few years after the mainline was scrapped in the summer of '82. |
William Shapotkin posted three photos with the comment:
An often-overlooked interlocking was in Sycamore, IL -- where the CGW mainline and the C&NW Northern Illinois x/o one-another. Additionally, the CGW DeKalb-Sycamore line (which offered thru Chicago-DeKalb suburban service until circa 1915) diverged here.
1. A S/B (timetable E/B) C&NW trn is about to x/o the CGW. View looks N/E.
2. View of xing/tower looking N-N/E.
3. A W/B CGW frt x/o the C&NW. View looks north.
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