RAILROAD ARCHAEOLOGY TO DO. I've located a website with photos of surviving railroad stations, including a number of intriguing finds in Northern Illinois. Consider first the Rockford and Interurban. It quit business in 1930, but the stations in Cherry Valley, Winnebago, and Pecatonica still stand. More roadtrips to the North West Frontier are in order. Also still standing is the Hoopole station of the improbably named Hoopole Yorktown and Tampico (the last named being the birthplace of one Ronald Wilson Reagan.) According to Hilton and Due, the HY&T was originally projected as an interurban called the Dixon Rock Falls and Southeastern, but, like the Woodstock & Sycamore it was never electrified, although, unlike the W&S it remained in operation until 1954. Further afield, the latest issue of First and Fastest alerts me to a property called the Macomb Industry & Littleton, which was also conceived as an interurban, although it was never electrified, and it escaped the attention of Hilton and Due.