PHOTOS BY BILL SCHAUMBURG: THORNBURY VILLAGE/LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS; NOVEMBER 1961


The autumn sun is low as Train 306, the first eastbound Mundelein- Lake Bluff local of the afternoon, makes its stop at Thornbury Vil- lage (above). The locals connected with express trains to Chicago


and Milwaukee Monday through Saturday at Lake Bluff. Below, car 725 is running as Train 305, the westbound return trip at Perpetual Adoration. The flagstops served commuters to and from Chicago.


CNS&M flagstop shelter These shelters provided passengers some protection from the elements/William C. Schaumburg W


hile it is best remembered for its high-speed hourly trains on private right-of-way after it left


the L tracks in Chicago and before it hit street running in Milwaukee, the Chica- go, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad had a quieter side to it. Its eight-mile long Mundelein Branch was decidedly rural, with frequent flagstops at road crossings, tracks cutting through Liber- tyville behind the back yards of tradi- tional small town homes, and a lot of open space around it, even at the end of the line. In addition to the passenger trains to and from Chicago and a six- day a week set of locals that connected with express trains bound for Milwau- kee or Chicago at Lake Bluff, North Shore freights with interchange traffic for the Soo Line at Mundelein and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern and Milwaukee Road at Rondout regularly used these rails. Although little local freight was set off on sidings by mid-century, the construction equipment plant owned by Hough at Libertyville kept switch crews busy until the railroad was abandoned in January of 1963.


RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN More than the rest of the line, the


branch was a lot like the rural portions of much of the nation’s electric interur- ban railway network as it was from the early decades of the twentieth century


on. And, like so many interurbans, the employee timetable listed almost every crossroad on the branch as a flagstop for the locals. A few places had just a plat- form, others even less (the blacktop of


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