This peculiar building sat on the railroad tracks between Third and Fourth Streets. Memory fails me if it was located between DePere Street and Appleton Street or Appleton and Racine Streets. But I saw it so many times in my boyhood as I hung around the area, enamored with the whole railroad environment. It was a garage, of sorts, for the familiar orange switching engine that moved boxcars along the tracks. From 1984, this photo brings back many pleasant memories.The engine in question looked pretty much like this:
The Milwaukee Road's double enginehouse was on the east side of Appleton Street about 75 yards north of Third Street. When I attended St Mary's the common locomotive that was housed there was a Fairbanks-Morse switcher like this one now preserved at the Illinois Railroad Museum https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Milw_760_at_IRM.jpg/600px-Milw_760_at_IRM.jpg
ReplyDeleteIt was two of their standard single stall enginehouses joined end to end.
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling that if anyone had more information on this, it would be Wally. Thanks, Wally, for pin-pointing the location!
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