Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company

Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company
Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company
Overview
Status	Defunct
Termini	Sycamore, Illinois; Marengo, Illinois
Service
Type	Interurban
History
Opened	1911
Closed	1918
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
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	Legend
	McHenry County
	DeKalb County
	Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
	and Pacific Railroad
	Sycamore
	Chicago Great Western Railroad
	Key
	Line proposed
	but never constructed
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The Woodstock and Sycamore Traction Company was a short-lived interurban railroad that operated from 1911^{[citation needed]} to 1918^[1] between the cities of Sycamore and Marengo, Illinois; it never reached its intended destination of Woodstock.^[2]^{[page needed]} Its headquarters and repair shop were in the city of Genoa, midway on the route.^[3] The 26.5-mile (42.6 km) track was never electrified, due to lack of funds, so gasoline-powered cars were used. Three 55-foot (16.8 m) McKeen cars were purchased, but the large cars proved unsatisfactory; they were replaced by two smaller Fairbanks-Morse cars.^[3]

References[]

^ "Woodstock-Sycamore Line Quits". Electric Railway Journal. 51 (17): 827. April 27, 1918.
^ Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4014-2. OCLC 237973.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. (1918). McGraw Electric Railway List. New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc.

External links[]

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[quits-1] "Woodstock-Sycamore Line Quits". Electric Railway Journal. 51 (17): 827. April 27, 1918.

[2] Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4014-2. OCLC 237973.

[mcgraw-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. (1918). McGraw Electric Railway List. New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc.

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