Memories of Life in Downers Grove

Train Memories

Burlington Steam Memories

As a baby in 1940 my mother said I would fall asleep at night when the steam train came through. Twenty years later I rode the steam locomotives #5632 and #4960 on many excursions that stopped at the Downers Grove Main Street station to pick up passengers in the early 1960s. My favorite book, The Northern and the Mike by J.A. Stowe, was put out by the Illini Railroad Club in 1966.

Tony Dolatowski