The line stretched for 26.3 miles, but was never electrified due to a lack of funds, so they used gasoline-powered cars. Three 55-foot McKeen cars were purchased but proved unsatisfactory and were replaced by two small Fairbanks-Morse cars.
The increased popularity of automobiles put the company out of business.
There is a 56-page book on the company by William L. Robertson offered on the National Business Trader site.
Pylons of the tracks over the Milwaukee Road Railroad tracks near Hampshire still stand.
--DaCoot
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
The Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company-- Part 1
From Wikipedia.
Back in April, in a Looking Back post I wrote that John Seymour, a contractor who constructed the Woodstock-Sycamore Traction Line was injured along with three men on a gasoline section car near Genoa. on March 24, 1915.
The Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company was a short-lived interurban railroad that ran from 1911 to 1918 between Sycamore and Marengo. It never did reach Woodstock as it planned.
The headquarters and repair shop were in Genoa, about half-way between Sycamore and Marengo.
--CooterUrban
Back in April, in a Looking Back post I wrote that John Seymour, a contractor who constructed the Woodstock-Sycamore Traction Line was injured along with three men on a gasoline section car near Genoa. on March 24, 1915.
The Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company was a short-lived interurban railroad that ran from 1911 to 1918 between Sycamore and Marengo. It never did reach Woodstock as it planned.
The headquarters and repair shop were in Genoa, about half-way between Sycamore and Marengo.
--CooterUrban
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