About Those Details

Walking up along the Fox Valley Trolley right-of-way from Blackhawk Forest Preserve shows the details I mentioned in the previous post, whether it is the old manual switch device, the intricate rail work that is the midst of the switch, or whether it is the road bed itself flanked by the overhead power lines.

Look closely at the top of the tracks and you see that by May, when these photos were taken, the trolleys have not been running for several months. Tracks in current use are polished by every wheel that turns upon them, sometimes gleaming almost clearly enough to see reflections on them.