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I learned rather emphatically in a Facebook group that CB&Q uses the term waycar instead of caboose.
At the end of a siding next to an old grain elevator sits a caboose that was built in 1967 for the CB&Q. Illinois Railway does use the other end of the siding for active storage. On the day I was there, they were storing MoW equipment. You can't see the caboose on either the Google or Bing satellite images because it is in the shadow of the elevator. I include the Bing link because it shows some other cars stored on the siding.
Yorkville bought it in 2007 for $10,500. The original plan to refurbish it and make it part of a train-themed Bristol Station Park in the Whispering Meadows subdivision proved to be too expensive and the city council now wants to sell it. [KendallCountyNow] Whispering Meadows is close to the CB&Q mainline to Denver, but I could not find a station, let alone a train-themed park.
Update: Davis Shrromberg caught a night-time photo of a war bonnet with the caboose in the background.
Christian S. Landorf photography posted some photos from 2019. It is nice to see even more MoW equipment and piles of rock stored here. I now recognize the elevator was expanded using steel-bolted bins as a cheaper alternative to slip-form concrete silos.
At the end of a siding next to an old grain elevator sits a caboose that was built in 1967 for the CB&Q. Illinois Railway does use the other end of the siding for active storage. On the day I was there, they were storing MoW equipment. You can't see the caboose on either the Google or Bing satellite images because it is in the shadow of the elevator. I include the Bing link because it shows some other cars stored on the siding.
Yorkville bought it in 2007 for $10,500. The original plan to refurbish it and make it part of a train-themed Bristol Station Park in the Whispering Meadows subdivision proved to be too expensive and the city council now wants to sell it. [KendallCountyNow] Whispering Meadows is close to the CB&Q mainline to Denver, but I could not find a station, let alone a train-themed park.
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| Jeff Wojciechowski posted
This was on the former CBQ/BN (Now Illinois Railway, an OmniTRAX property) from Montgomery to Streator, IL.
The caboose has since been sold and moved away.
Story about it being moved: https://www.kendallcountynow.com/2016/08/25/our-view-well-miss-that-old-caboose-when-its-gone/aaxt0uo/
Yorkville, IL June 30, 2016
[I contributed the 3/4 view above.]
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Update: Davis Shrromberg caught a night-time photo of a war bonnet with the caboose in the background.
Christian S. Landorf photography posted some photos from 2019. It is nice to see even more MoW equipment and piles of rock stored here. I now recognize the elevator was expanded using steel-bolted bins as a cheaper alternative to slip-form concrete silos.
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