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Satellite)
This was on the east side of the
CGW Ingalton Yard.
Friends of the West Chicago City Museum
posted four images with the comment:
It is #TrainsTuesday! Today we share some history and images from a more unknown train depot here in our community, the Ingalton Depot. This map shows where the depot was located. This depot served along the Chicago Great Western Railroad line. The Ingalton combination depot, a beautiful standard Chicago Great Western stick style was built in 1887. It was replaced by utilitarian shed-style Armco Steel structure in 1951.
Dennis DeBruler: The land has changed so much around the depot that it was hard to locate it on a satellite map. So I'll reference my notes to provide the analysis:
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This marks it as south of the tracks and a little west of the IL-59 overpass.
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| 1953/55 West Chicago Quad @ 24,000 |
And this 1939 aerial photo confirms it. Note that the depot was on the east end of the
CGW Ingalton Yard.
But the land around the depot has changed so much that it was hard to determine how far west that mark is on a satellite image. Here is a topo showing today's configuration.
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1998/2002 West Chicago Quad @ 24,000
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And here is a 50/50 merger of the two topo maps. This shows that the depot was a little east of the north/south road that is in the middle of the apartment complex:
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Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago Great Western Railroad Depot and Linemen, in Ingalton, Illinois on November 10, 1932. |
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Jeff Marcri commented on Andy's post
Looking East. |
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