Mysteries along the old Illinois Central, now the Metra Electric Line, include stations named after places that no longer exist, like Kensington, and promotional stunts from a century ago as with Ivanhoe.
The Ivanhoe Metra station at 144th Street in Riverdale in 2002. The station is named for a subdivision established in the early 20th century.Electric Line Highliners
He’d been riding the train every weekday since the early 1970s back and forth from his job in the Amoco Building, now called theOne of our family stories details the white knuckle time in October 1972, after news spread about anthat had claimed lives and injured hundreds. Dad might have been one of those trains.
Mostly we’d look outward. There was so much to see. Tiny lakes at the bottom of the raised rail bed marked ancient excavations, we imagined, though they more likely dated to the early 1920s when the rail line was raised above grade and viaducts were installed so the increasing motor traffic could safely pass below the tracks.topped by castle-like battlements, with tall, vacant, black windows.
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