[RITSlist] Station Location Question

[Jeffrey Osman]

Dear Harold and List:

If memory serves, the first Rock Island train of 10/10/1852 departed the
22nd street station for Joliet.  If anyone has "Iron Road to Empire" handy,
I'm recalling this data from that book (which I don't have handy.)
Cheers,
Jeff

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Harold Krewer <hkrits at hotmail.com> wrote:

> In an earlier post, Steve Suhs, Cubs fan extraordinaire, wrote:
>
> "*To my knowledge the RI did not have any stations between LaSalle st. and
> Englewood for commuters. While new station at 35th st is most likely for
> those fans of a certain south side baseball team that is in sight of the RI
> mainline to travel more conveniently to the stadium taking the "L" from the
> south side not much of an option as area not the best, I'm sure the local
> neighborhood might benefit from it too. I'm surprised it's taken this long
> for them to get a commuter stop there. I've always wondered why it hadn't
> happened years ago when I use to travel on the RI between Tinley Park and
> downtown to see that north side baseball team."*
>
> According to my sources at Metra, the new station at 35th Street is as
> much (if not more) for the benefit of those commuting to the Illinois
> Institute of Technology (IIT), on the other side of the right-of-way from
> that certain south-side ballpark.
>
> Students are generally seen as a good investment of transit dollars, as
> they tend to be a more consistent source of year-round passenger loadings.
> Baseball fans, on the other hand, are a fickle and seasonal business, ebbing
> and flowing with the fortunes of their teams. And, at least in Chicago, they
> almost never travel after September 30.....
>
> Unfortunately, my summer travels on the Peoria and Quad City Rockets from
> LaSalle-Peru to Chicago to see the north-siders were not enough to keep that
> service viable.
>
> Ready and still waiting for more baseball in October,
>
> Harold Krewer
> Causing More Problems Than He Solves (and rooting for the Cubs!)
> Since 1961
>
> P.S. Too bad the Milwaukee took up their C&E branch on the north side,
> which ran in the pavement up Clark Street right in front of Wrigley Field.
> Now THAT would have been door-to-door service!
>
>
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