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| Kerry Bruck posted CB&Q Roundhouse on the corner of Park and Broadway in Streator Illinois. Richard Fiedler 2 stalls are elongated with a dormer. |
Note the lever in the lower-left corner used to turn the turntable. Looking closer, I see there is an "armstrong" lever on the other side as well. It makes you hope the pivot in the middle and the rollers on the sides are clean and well greased. Turning the engine that is under the dormer on the right must have been "fun."
I remember when studying the railroads of Streator that both of CB&Q's branches, Ottawa, Osewgo & Fox River Valley and Illinois Valley & Northern, met in this area. But the turntable does not show up in this old aerial photo as well as they normally appear.
The roundhouse was the terminus for the OO&FRV branch that came from Aurora and the IV&N branch that connected with the mainline in Zearing.
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
The roundhouse was the terminus for the OO&FRV branch that came from Aurora and the IV&N branch that connected with the mainline in Zearing.
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| 1927 Streator Quad @ 24,000 |
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| Andy Zukowski posted CB&Q U28B's on Train #85 at Streator, Illinois on February 11, 1967. Trenton Dominy: I didn’t think this line was strong enough for the U-Boats to operate on. I know where this is also the industrial spur to the Owens glass plant. Harold J. Krewer: Trenton Dominy, the BN regularly assigned SDs to Fox River Branch trains because the climb northbound out of Wedron with sand loads was (still is) a killer. Pre-merger, however, Trains 85-86 originated in Cicero and operated down to Streator and then back northwest up the IV&N to LaSalle. Four-axle units (including braces of F units) were typical on 85-86. It might also be a case of this was all the Clyde diesel house had to spare. |
Trenton's comment caused be to research how the CB&Q access the Illinois-Owens glass plant. On the north side of the plant, the CB&Q shared an industrial spur with the NYC, on the left, and the Santa Fe, on the right, on the north side of the plant. The CB&Q also had an industrail spur on the south side of the plant. Given the southern spur was in a residential spur, Andy's photo is obviously of the northern spur.
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
The track for the southern industrial lead has been removed from the dirt, but it still hasn't been removed from the concrete.
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| Street View, Oct 2022 |
Not only does the track still exist in all of the crossings, some of them had been rubberized.
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| Street View, Oct 2022 |
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