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| Marty Bernard posted Gulf Mobile & Ohio F3A #809A leads a freight slowly past the Springfield, IL depot on the warm afternoon of August 15, 1965. Jon Roma: FYI, this is a northbound. Marty Bernard shared |
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| Springfield Model Railroad Club posted Here's the northbound Alton Limited passing Springfield station en route to Chicago in May 1952. Philip Anthony Kohler: Lincoln, Bloomington, Pontiac, Joliet, Chicago Andrew Roth shared |
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| Jim Arvites posted View of the old Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad passenger depot in Springfield, Illinois on March 12, 2023. The station, built in 1895 by the Chicago & Alton RR, is used by Amtrak today. In the near future the depot will be replaced by the Springfield-Sangamon Transportation Center, which is currently under construction, and expected to open in 2025. (Keith Pokorny Photo) Jerry Hund: What was wrong with this station? Timothy Hawkeye Kane: Jerry Hund on the wrong set of tracks to accommodate high speed rail. Causes a lot of delays to downtown traffic anymore as well. [To summarize some additional comments, the politicians in Springfield don't think they should put up with a fraction of the traffic congestion caused in Chicagoland by the trains.] Ken Baker: Dwight Smith also noting the location was the same for the lincoln funeral train when the Row was the C&A. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's share One could argue that Springfield is not in the Chicago Area and that these photos belong in the RAILROAD HISTORY BUFFS OF ILLINOIS Group, but there is so much previously undocumented history in these photos that it is too hard to resist. Per Jon Roma's comments on Marty's original post, the freight is running n/b past the depot (39°48'08.8"N 89°39'05.7"W). And the second photo is looking West along the B&O route and the caboose is s/b on the UP/GM&O/Alton route. Can someone confirm the ownership of the "green" freight house? Red: JA Tower Yellow: GM&O Depot Blue: Union Station Orange: GM&O Freight House Green: B&O Freight House |
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