Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:34 am
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Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:03 pm
Both Cumberland locations are on the current railcam snow rotation. I can practically see the farm. 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:23 pm
Good stuff, John.1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:03 pm Both Cumberland locations are on the current railcam snow rotation. I can practically see the farm.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm
Best I could do of my grand parents Farm/ farm-et 6 acres (Some day farm). 651 south Drive South Elgin Il. My sister snaked the sign i will have to get a picture so I can post it. No rail cam back in the day. Quite a scramble for my younger brother and I to get up to the tracks collect plenty of loose spikes in the day. A long long time ago. My uncle built a new house on it so we had to sell after everyone passed. We shot some wild pheasant in the day there also. Have to see if I can find any more pictures. We used to wave to anyone that would wave back.
Steve
Steve
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 6:13 pm
LKSKNIVES wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm Best I could do of my grand parents Farm/ farm-et 6 acres (Some day farm). 651 south Drive South Elgin Il. My sister snaked the sign i will have to get a picture so I can post it. No rail cam back in the day. Quite a scramble for my younger brother and I to get up to the tracks collect plenty of loose spikes in the day. A long long time ago. My uncle built a new house on it so we had to sell after everyone passed. We shot some wild pheasant in the day there also. Have to see if I can find any more pictures. We used to wave to anyone that would wave back.
Steve
Very cool! The only wild pheasant I have ever seen was once after skiing at Roundtop in PA., I was about a 1/2 mile south of the resort by some farmland. I stopped at a stop sign, looked to my right and there he was. Beautiful creatures, wish I had taken a picture. Probably several years ago at this stage.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:03 pm
No wild ones left here it’s a bummer only club hunting. The wife enjoys the way I cook them. She teases me about club hunting. Wasn’t sure if you could see the railroad tracks in the bottom of the picture. That was when trains used a caboose. Have not seen a caboose on a train in at least ten years possibly 15. Used to play ice hockey before work in Plainfield. One morning I am waiting for the train to pass and at the back was an orange Elgin Joliet & Eastern caboose. I think I had one in my collection at one point.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:52 pm
Lookin for a train 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:52 pm
Nice pictures David,
I like the old time feeling I get from pictures like that.
Steve
I like the old time feeling I get from pictures like that.
Steve
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:18 pm
I agree.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:32 pm
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:33 pm
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 11:24 pm
.... I have a pretty good feeling you might could be in the right place to find one ... 
hopefully you are on the right track in your search... Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 4:08 pm
Good morning David and other train folks.
Looked closer at the second picture and guess what I see?
Train cars looks like it could be a hopper and possibly some box cars.
Adds to the to the feel of the picture for sure.
Steve
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 10:19 pm
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Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:42 pm
Good pics Ike. Always like seeing UP power. Suppose to get some more of that stuff this afternoon.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:17 pm
Were you in Quincy, Ike? Cool shots! 
Cool shots! 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:07 pm
Thank you for the comments, David and John.
No, not in Quincy.
Quincy is an interesting river town with a pretty good transportation history. This photo is a little tidbit of it for you. Rail bridge constructed in 1868 for the Chicago,Burlington, and Quincy line.Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:34 pm
Thanks!Waukonda wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:07 pmThank you for the comments, David and John.
No, not in Quincy.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:31 am
David looking for a train. About 35 years earlier you would have seen this Santa Fe train east bound In this shot he’s fixin to head east on the Santa Fe’s Moline sub at Winfield Kansas
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:44 am
Kool shot of Quincy Ill BTW
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:50 am
A shot of EB BNSF meeting a WB SKOL at Udall Kansas MP 238 on BNSF Ark City Sub
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 9:31 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 2:30 pm
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:29 pm
Cool shots!
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:05 pm
Here’s a shot of the Santa Fe Emporia Kansas depot from better days. Unfortunately, some homeless people got inside of it few years ago and burned to the ground. I don’t know who the original Photographer was.