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| Jim Arvites posted View of the old Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad passenger depot at Oregon, Illinois on April 1, 2023. The station, built in 1913, has been refurbished and is a railroad depot museum today. (Keith Pokorny Photo) |
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| Andy Zukowski posted C. B. & Q. Railroad Depot in Oregon, Illinois. 1916. Photo by C. R. Childs |
The railyard is actively used.
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They must run local trains out of this yard because it appears the two locomotives in the above satellite image are permanently assigned to this yard. Odds are that many of the covered hoppers in the yard carry sand.
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| Global Earth, Apr 2017 |
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| Brian Stuart, Mar 2016 |
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| William Brown posted Something new at the BNSF's Oregon, Illinois Yard. The former CB&Q Silver View parked west of the Restored CB&Q Depot. It ran bay many times of the Morning and Evening Zephyrs. William Brown posted |
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| Larry Foht posted Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Depot Oregon Illinois The replacement of the Wood Depot Larry Foht collection : Richard Fiedler shared Thomas Whitt shared Mike Bartels: This seemed to be a distinctive CB&Q style of depot. Others included Broken Bow, Curtis, Mitchell and Tecumseh, Neb., and Douglas, Wyo. |
Note that this town had two water towers.
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| Larry Foht posted Chicago Burlington and Quincy Depot Oregon Illinois This is the 2nd Depot out of 3 Oregon had. Per, Jake the first one burned to the ground. This 2nd Depot partially burned Then the Beautiful existing brick Depot replaced this Jewel !! Larry Foht collection: Edward Rethwisch: I think this one was moved just to the west of the current depot and finished it's life as the freight house. Jake Zimmerman: History of the 3 depots: Richard Fiedler shared |
This was on the mainline between Chicago and the Twin Cities. And a branch left from here to go to Forreston, IL.
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I knew I heard of Oregon IL before... It was always in the Donald Steefe Speed Surveys as being one of the fastest scheduled start-to-stop runs in the country (and the world in the early 1950's).
ReplyDeleteFrom the May 1959 Train Magazine, the 1958 speed survey showed the following:
Train 21 - the Morning Zephyr - was carded for 47 minutes for the 60.4 miles between Aurora and Oregon, for an average start-to-stop speed of 77.1 mph.
Trains 21 & 22 - also the Morning Zephyrs (but in both directions) - were carded for 37 minutes for the 46.7 miles between Oregon and Savanna, for an average start-to-stop speed of 75.7 mph.
They probably were doing over 90 to make those timings, which meant cab-signals on that line too.