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By Jim Leach Photo via blackswanbooks.com If you think railroad relocation has taken a long time, think about this – it was first proposed nearly 100 years ago. Springfield in the 1920s was not a showplace. The air was filled with coal smoke, the rail crossings were a nuisance and hazard for drivers and pedestrians, the drinking water would not pass modern standards for sanitation. City officials commissioned a Chicago city planner, Myron West, to develop a plan for the future. West delivered his vision to the city in May of 1923, and in 1924 it was adopted as the first official city plan. It was a document well ahead of its time. It took more than a decade to realize the West Plan’s vision of a manmade lake for drinking water, what became Lake Springfield. It envisioned turning Capitol Avenue into a landscaped parkway, a project that didn’t get started until the 21

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