Saturday, September 22, 2012

Postcard from Main Street

I am riding the Sunday Zephyr trip but this morning made it down to Main Street in Downers Grove to see the train come through.  What a beauty!  The train, the weather and the setting, with the old brick CB&Q depot and the historic Tivoli Theater in the background, combined for a memorable show.

Of course the Train of the Goddesses has a mixed history with this particular location, and I was reminded of another dubious source of infamy enjoyed by the Main Street crossing - the notorious video of a pedestrian getting struck by a Metra express in 1991 - when a woman ran across the tracks not 400' in front of the Zephyr speeding along at 50mph.  Yikes!
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2 comments:

  1. M E MoyanoSeptember 23, 2012 at 2:34 PM

    Wasn't Downers Grove also the place where the Nebraska Zephyr derailed and struck the depot?

    CB&Q Engineer

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  2. Randall HicksSeptember 23, 2012 at 8:03 PM

    Yes, that's what he was referring to euphemistically as a "mixed history."

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