Virgil Gilman Trail EB (Entirety), Sugar Grove, IL (IL 47) to Montgomery IL (Hill Ave) | VirtualBike

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

Cool bike ride.

[@MrStones1963]

I have been waiting for this upload, as I grew up in this neighborhood and am glad to find virtual footage heading eastbound.

[@JR-playlists]

Did you know that the Gilman trail is built on an abandoned passenger railbed starting at 9:50 timestamp? (notice the raised railbed and the straight nature of the trail, the original line bordered the Aurora airport and went through DeKalb where a small segment of rail is still present along Peace road behind a fence). The trolley ran from Joliet to Rockford daily. The first section of trail was opened on the Westside of Aurora in the late 1960's between 24:00 & 38:45. It was one of the first rail trails in the nation, complete with brass sundials at each road crossing, and a playground (it was removed, now refereed to as Palmer Park). 44:20 original trolley trestle. If you speed up the video, you can pretend like your the engineer of the trolley

[@tyhik9338]

Any Metra rides on the way?

[@kennykrobs6935]

They really need to repave the Gilman, those cracks in road are terrible, kills the ride for me, plus gives me headaches.