Goodenow, IL: C&EI NE Tower, now called Balmoral

(Satellite, the thick part of the tree line on the west side)

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society shared
Kam Miller Or north end of double track? Reason I ask is because the bridge at Goodenow doesn't look wide enough to have been triple track. Used to have a girlfriend at Goodenow and would hang around there a lot.
Dennis DeBruler A Street View shows that there is room for a third span. (Facebook is not giving me the option of adding a photo, so here is a link: https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqetN1xqikW...) Also, someone has converted the third track RoW into an access road south of Elm Court Lane with fresh rock.

Eric Berg posted
C&EI "NE" tower located just north of Goodenow, Illinois and just south of Crete. This was the North End of triple track, hence the name NE. The entrance to Lincoln Fields was here also, where all the passenger trains came from Chicago.
Dennis DeBruler I think the wide spot in the treeline on the west side is where the tower was: https://www.google.com/.../@41.4157044,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3
Phil Partenheimer Called Balmoral now.
Phil Partenheimer An old engineer , Clarence Hillard said he worked steam trains that would start downtown Chicago, pick up passengers at the all the stations and drop them off at the track.
Dennis DeBruler I know that back in the horse & buggy days, C&WI, B&OCT, EJ&E, etc. had passenger service because I've seen photos of some of their depots. But I'm having enough of a challenge trying to learn how freight trains worked in Chicagoland that I have been ignoring the old commuter services. Cemeteries, as well as racetracks, were big customers for those passenger trains.
Phil Partenheimer Only cemetery I can remember on our line C&EI, Union Pacific when I worked, was just south of Material Service in Thorton.
Dennis DeBruler There are two cemeteries down there next to each other: Homewood Memorial Gardens and Washington Memory Gardens. I wonder if the purpose of this abandoned connector between CN/IC and UP/C&EI was to serve those cemeteries and/or to allow IC to access the quarry business. https://www.google.com/.../@41.5606938,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3

Dennis DeBruler commented on Eric's post
1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP
 I assume Lincoln Fields was a name for the race track. A 1939 aerial.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Eric's post
A closeup