(erielack) Arch Window Stillwells on the C&WI

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Official Guide to the Railways, December, 1957 :
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad owns Dearborn Station and is in turn owned by the tenant railroads : AT&SF, C&EI, ERIE, GTW, Monon, and Wabash.
C&WI operates suburban service between Chicago and Dolton, IL, with these stops:  Dearborn Station, 47th St., 55th St., 59th St., Englewood, Normal Park, Hamilton Park (72nd St.), Auburn Park (79th St.), Oakdale, Euclid Park, Fernwood, North Roseland, Roseland, Sheldon Park, Kensington, Dolton -- total miles : 16.6, with the first 4.6 miles out and the rest between a half mile and a mile apart.  Times not available.
C&WI owned 5 Stillwells # 42-42, from Erie 2100-2143, Pressed Steel, 1924.

BTW, New Haven ran arch-wondowed Stillwells in the Boston commute -- ex NYW&B mu cars demotored and rebuilt with no center doors but with closed vestibules :  NH 141-190, ex NYW&B same, PSC 1924-1929.

Again, please, allow me the observation that the "arch window" stillwells were shorter than the straight letterboard cars by one window pair -- 72'8" overall length vs. 78'1"  And to try once more to quash a long-standing misconception, no stillwell delivered with arched windows was ever modernized to cover the arches with a straight letterboard.

Randy Brown

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