Sante Fe caboose on the Argonne run out of Hodgkins. A year later, in the Fall of 2006, the windows were plated over with steel and another bit of railroading faded into history.
Local traffic around Willow Springs and Lemont once warranted a yard here at the end of the Argonne Branch. However, the decline of local traffic and the building of nearby Willow Springs yard mos... (more)