Galesburg, KS

I spent the entire day at Peck Park in Galesburg, IL on 6-25-10. This is part 1 of what i caught. Actually, the first couple of clips are from the evening of the 24th. Anyway, it was Railroad Days and i was actually there from the 24th to the 27th but with so many people around and little motive power variety, the clips from the 25th were the only ones that i could salvage. All train symbols and power are listed in the video. Enjoy!!

Part 2 of what I saw in Galesburg on 6-25-10. Enjoy!

On the Chili sub, an EB Union Pacific stack train. As the DPU goes under, above a BNSF H2 covered in grafitti, and a KCS Southern Belle pull the GALNTW freight on the Peavine. Filmed in Galesburg, IL February 27th, 2010.

3/31/10 ; A Friend of The Railfan House [ Who is a Engineer on The BNSF] , called Me earlier Telling Me He was Bringing this Train to Galesburg from Kansas City. He knew I liked large number of Engines on Trains, so He Tipped Me off on this. He later Called Me back Telling Me That when I hear lots of Honking [ The Engineer that Took this Train at Galesburg is VERY Horn happy], That would be The Train I would want to Catch.

Finally got the old Shaw Du-All N5 back up and running!

BNSF and NS Dash 9's with a KCS Southern Belle ES44AC pull the GALCWY freight EB on the Chili sub. May 4th, 2010 Galesburg, IL.

Been tearing apart the old tractor and working on the bird!

Part 3 of what I saw in Galesburg on 6-25-10. Enjoy!

1940 Funk airplane rebuild. This was an evolved project and this is only 8.5 minutes of a 2 +hour video. It started out as a true basket case and took over 2 years to complete. Joe Fisher from Galesburg ,Kansas

After seeing videos from MarvinMcgill and others from this spot, I thought I'd pay it a visit. I arrived here at about 4:30AM to catch the U-SEMBIR Taconite Train as well as anything I could find. Upon arriving, I noticed several tracks running in many directions. The line running North and South is the BNSF Brookfield Subdivision, A long-ass single track mainline from Galesburg to Kansas City. Through Bushnell, there is a passing siding. About 5 miles West of the diamonds, a junction splits off into two lines. The other one is the Beardstown Subdivision which runs to Paducah, KY. Running East and West through the heart of industrial Bushnell is the KJRY mainline. This is the line that crosses over the BNSF. No trains came on the KJRY when I was there though, which is kinda unfortunate since I was expecting to get some footage of close-quartered industrial action. So here ya go. Enjoy! Train 1- I headed out to Bushnell as soon as this train, the Westbound U-SEMBIR Taconite, cleared Galesburg. I went out to the historic downtown part of town since it had the best lighting. This came through at 4:49AM. BNSF C44-9W #5234 BNSF SD75M #8226 (Ex. ATSF) BNSF C44-9W #5430 Train 2- Amtrak 380, the Eastbound Illinois Zephyr rumbles across the KJRY diamonds. It will be about half an hour late into Galesburg. P42DC #126 Train 3- The leader of this E-CEBNAM off the Beardstown Subdivision looks like it sustained some nose damage on the conductor's side, due to the mismatched paint. Oh ...