The Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin was an interurban in the western suburbs of Chicago. Today, its all a bike path. Out of fifty miles of trail, only two pieces of track remain: A piece of track that was part of the service years in Wheaton, IL, and a concrete rail about eight feet long embedded in much newer concrete in the trail itself in Batavia. Neither rail has had a wheel turn over it in half a century - the abandonment was infamous because the railroad literally shut down midday, meaning that people who took the train into the city in the morning were stranded in the evening!
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:47:42 +0000