Sunday, September 7, 2025

Lombard, IL: C&NW and CA&E Depots

C&NW 1800s: (Satellite, the line was not elevated by then.)
C&NW 1930s and Today: (Satellite)
CA&E: (Satellite, a salon has reused the land.)

C&NW Depots

It looks like there were at least three C&NW depots in this town.

Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Depot in Lombard, Illinois. 1917
Photo by CR Childs

Note the boxcars in the above photo that are parked on the house track and industrial lead that was north of the station.
Craig Holmberg commented on Andy's post
Sanborn Map & Publishing Co. 1919

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
Just a great old photo of the C&NW through Lombard, Illinois in the late 1930s.
Bob Lalich: Hand thrown crossover?
Stephen Herzfeld: And now there are high spd crossovers about a mile east of this.
Tony Costa: Stephen Herzfeld I put that place together dispatchers loved it they said it was an extension of cp park.

Street View, Mara 2025

The railroad across the top was the Chicago Great Western.
1908/08 Weaton [sic] Quad @ 62,500

CA&E Depot


Andy Zukowski posted
Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Depot in Lombard, Illinois. 1913
Bill Swank: Kids don’t go near The Third Rail……
Manta of my Brewster Ave early childhood.
Fred Midgley: Bill Swank My brother said he jumped the third rail twice a day to attend Jackson jr hi.

Craig Holberg commented on Andy's post
Sanborn Map & Publishing Co. 1919




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