Just got back from a delightful visit to Starved Rock State Park. I could start inserting pictures of canyons and so forth, but instead let's look at this interesting display in the Lodge of old-time pictures of the park. At the right is an electric car on the CO&P on its way to Starved Rock. At least that's what they want you to believe.
Unfortunately it's not a very good picture, and I suspect it was taken a while ago. I don't know if we can identify the motorman with any confidence. It's also suspicious that beneath the roll sign, we appear to have a visitor from another planet. But stranger things have happened.
Back in the day, did the Illinois Terminal actually serve the park?
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The Illinois Valley Division, or Chicago and Illinois Valley, served the park indirectly. The tracks were on the north side of the river, so you had to take a small ferryboat over to the park itself. When it was operating on the IVDIV, the 415 was numbered 64 and had a completely different paint scheme.
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