Roundhouse: (Satellite, the land is now more container storage.)
Railyard: (Satellite, it is now an intermodal and auto unloading yard.)
I don't normally note the depots of the Chicago suburbs, but this one looks different, and I want to note the name change.
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| Andy Zukowski posted Soo Line Railroad Depot in Kolze, Illinois,. 1912 Richard Fiedler shared |
This map did not mark the location of the depot, but it did show me where the roundhouse used to be.
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| 1953/55 River Forest Quad @ 24,000 |
Kolze was a bedroom community even back in the 1930s. That is, it did not have a downtown around its depot.
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
In 1880 William Kolze and family bought land in what would be incorporated as Schiller Park in 1914. The family was pretty important, there is a Kolze Ave. today.
ReplyDeleteThe first three images on this copyright site have this yard: https://www.lakestatesarchive.org/Drawings-Gallery/Soo-Line
Shiller Park has a timeline and a good interactive map site: https://www.villageofschillerpark.com/246/Schiller-Park-Timeline and https://www.gisconsortium.org/WebApps/StoryMaps/VSP/HistoricSites/index.html