| Literally. From what I've learned via a Facebook group, a total of 43 cabooses of CGW and Milwaukee Road heritage were shoved here over the already embargoed line in 1981 in order to establish the "End of the Line Caboose Motel" at this location. The line down to the current end-of-track at Ringwood, IL was dismantled beginning the following day. The C&NW branch line once extended all the way to Williams Bay. Now a small piece is used as a branch line for Metra service to McHenry off the Harvard Sub main at Crystal Lake, with freight only from McHenry to end-of-track at the DOW plant in Ringwood. |