[RITSlist] Station Location Question

[David Engle]

Page 21: "Evidently little advance notice of the coming of this historic event was circulated.  When at 10 a.m.on Sunday, October 10, 1852, the gaily bedecked train was ready to leave the 22nd St. depot, the occasion had caused hardly a ripple in the busy life of Chicagoans.  .  .  .
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeffrey Osman 
  To: Harold Krewer 
  Cc: ritslist at simpson.edu 
  Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:37 PM
  Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Station Location Question


  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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