Sunday, August 25, 2019

Milwaukee Roundhouse in Elgin, IL

(Satellite, it is gone)

Mark Llanuza posted
Its the year 1960 the Milwaukee Rd turntable at Elgin at the far south end of the coach yard near National street with passenger engine E-7 and GP-9 [Ted Schnepf collection]

Sj Nelson shared

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP
The 1940 topo map is low resolution and doesn't show it.
1940 Elgin Quadrant, 1:62500
The 1962 map shows the turntable.
1962 Elgin Quadrant, 1:24000
The 1998 topo map showed the buildings were torn down, but the track arrangement was the same as 1962. That didn't seem right to me. Since 1998 is approaching the beginning of the images that Google Earth has, I checked it out. It in fact, it goes back to 1994 and confirms all of the tracks had been removed by then. They had part of today's parking lot built, and they had yet to start on the riverfront park.
1994 Google Earth



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