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Paid a visit to the Museum of Transport at lunch today to check in on an old friend. She appears to be doing ok. Under the shed, rods greased, cab locked up, etc. Would love to see her run again.

After posting the previous blog about my trip to Marceline Monday, I went to post the video on YouTube, where I rembered the first vidroom ever shot there. I had been chasing Frisco 1522 to Brookfield with Steve Anderson, and on the way back, we decided to stop in Marceline, since it was literally right…

Time to hit the road to the Transcon, a place I hadn’t been in a while. In fact, I hadn’t been to Marceline since working my way from there to LaPlata in October 2013 while touring with Rails Around Missouri. First up, a ballast train @ Bucklin around 8am; Next, the first of many stack…

With the success of the southern Illinois book, I am moving on to Northern Illinois in the same format. This book will cover all of the major railroads from the Iowa/Wisconsin borders down to the same I-70 dividing line used for the Southern Illinois book. Rail lines I aim to cover include: the Santa Fe,…