1951 Grand Trunk Timetable
1951 timetable courtesy Richard Leonard's Steam Locomotive Archive.
I wish someone who actually knows something about trains could explain to me why they bother showing Ainsworth on the timetable if nothing stops there!
Are there trains that stop at Ainsworth that don't rate a mention on the timetable?
Monday, September 21, 2009
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Looks like there are many locations named in that timetable without train arrival/departure times specified. These locations are probably demarcation points along the RR known to RR personnel, perhaps the site of signal, siding, crossing with another RR, etc.
As a lifelong Chicagoan who grew up with the GTW as my "neighborhood" local railroad, I recognize some of the locations mentioned at the Chicago end of that timetable, including Ashburn, Mt. Greenwood and Evergreen Park. There were no stations there, at least in "modern" times, meaning Post WWII (although I'm nowhere near that old, your 1951 timetable confirms this).
That makes sense. The RR personnel probably use "Ainsworth" to this day, just as a point of reference.
I suppose it would also make sense for the station to appear on a public timetable so people who had been accustomed to catching the train there would know it doesn't stop anymore.
I grew up in Munster, IN with the old Monon tracks as the neighborhood railroad. We were close enough that we could hear the diesel engines throbbing as they went by on summer nights. Those tracks are a bike path now.
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