Nostalgia & History > A Milwaukee Road Switcher Saturday, Bensenville

1. MILW RS3 454 at Bensenville, IL on June 22, 1966

2. MILW SW1200 652 at Bensenville on August 2, 1967


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard

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Check out the trucks on the RS-3. I've never seen this type truck on an RS before.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

acltrainman Wrote:
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> Check out the trucks on the RS-3. I've never seen
> this type truck on an RS before.

Blunt type switcher trucks.MILW
did this to several RS's.See previous posts.

Uncle Joe,Seffner,Fl.

An amazing look back at how Bensenville used to look! I have lived in downtown Bensenville for the past two years and really enjoy this way-back machine you have going on. I attached a view of the Bensenville depot as it was in July of 2013 with a NS-led CP freight taken at virtually the same spot, just not standing in Addison Street. A lot has changed. I hope you don't mind my piggy-backing my shot on your thread.

Thanks for sharing!

-Don Kalkman

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Don, piggybacking on a thread is fine. Derailing it to a different topic is a problem.

How sure are you that the two pictures are of the same place? They are so different. The depot in your picture looks far older than the one in my much older picture! There is an old building across the street from the depot in your picture that's not in mine. The Google satellite view shows the depot in your picture. The depot in my shot says "Bensenville". Was the depot in my shot raised and replaced by a period looking depot, i.e., had the downtown been demodernized?

Marty

It's most definitely the same location. That replacement depot seen in my shot is now over 30 years old and really showing its age. The Bensenville town hall is the other building, built within the last 10 years or so. The original depot had a lot more class than the one here now. Keep those B'ville photos coming!

-Don

Wow. Updated from 1930s Texaco-modern to 1830s brick modern. Who wouldda thunk it?

lwilton Wrote:
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> Wow. Updated from 1930s Texaco-modern to 1830s
> brick modern. Who wouldda thunk it?

The white Streamline Modern depot looked great.

It's all fake now.