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[jwood719]

Looking at the Old Railroads: Illinois Railway Museum, Labor Day 2022 -- “Night Train” weekend, with extended hours for viewing after 6 PM.

J. Neils Lumber No 5 getting underway with the caboose train.  A close look shows the drive shafts spinning as they transfer power from the cylinders to the wheels, something a moving picture is much better at depicting.

The shakes and stutters are due to a less-than-smooth zoom operation on the lens (the camera needs a good cleaning).

R. Jake Wood, 2022.

Illinois Railway Museum

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[jwood718]

A Saturday with sunshine and Illinois Railway Museum’s Frisco 1630 (plus other subjects) over on Jake Rambles n’at.

R. Jake Wood, 2022

#photography #Jake rambles #illinoisrailwaymuseum

[jonathanmrobson]

#a7rii, #bealpha, #blackandwhite, #cbody, #cars, #classic, #illinois, #illinoisrailwaymuseum, #mopar, #sony, #union, #voigtlander75mmf15 (at Illinois Railway Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQmfJmIHT9E/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[bsaschields]

#ride to #illinoisrailwaymuseum #chicago #bsa #spitfire #santafe #line https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQvFQAAG8y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tlnbk5biq791

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[nunoxaviermoreira]

Union, IL, Illinois Railway Museum, Train Needing Restoration by Mary Warren (9.1+ million views) http://ift.tt/2gC4StV

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[doccrusher47]

Scenes from a day at IRM #illinoisrailwaymuseum #cta #chicago #amtrak #streetcar #thel #rapidtransit #signage #50th #trainstation #rails #chicagotransit #chicagotransitauthority #2400s #history #northshoreline #smokealarm #smokedetector (at Illinois Railway Museum)

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[jebphoto]

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[jwood719]

Looking at the Old Railroads: Illinois Railway Museum, October 1, 2022: A Saturday with Sunlight.

I watched the forecast for Union, Illinois for a week to see if Saturday, October 1 would have sun, and all the way up to Friday night sun remained on the National Weather Service website -- along with patchy fog.  So I got up early and hit the road.

Sunrise over farm fields.

Of course as the sun rose, I just had to stop and try a few shots of the sky -- it was just too pretty not to.  I told myself all week before “don’t stop, just go” and yeah that didn’t happen.  Shortly after I made the pause for the preceding images, I found the “patchy fog,” and would run through patches of fog for the next forty minutes or so.

Maybe not quite the “sweet morning fog” from Hounds of Love but still, worth pointing the camera at.

Driving west into Illinois there were places where the patchy fog settled across the road and it was very much like driving through the clouds; for several miles I was only a few hundred yards behind a grain truck and could but rarely glimpse it through intervening vapor.

When I got to Union, I skipped the museum grounds and headed for the only other crossing where IRM’s main road crossed the county highway.  Two other people waited, as I did, for the tourist runs, and while Frisco 1630 was scheduled to run out that weekend, there’s never any guarantee.  With passing time, I did wonder if having all the sunlight I wanted would be for nothing.

There were a pair of Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit cars:

numbered 1754 (built 1906) and 1268 (built 1907) which were running and passed by twice before the whistle and smoke indicated that 1630 was heading off.

The whole point of making this trip was to get the sunlight shining on the front end of 1630.  On several of my previous jaunts to Union I got out to that crossing later in the day, and while I’m fond of afternoon light, afternoon sun leaves the front of the trains in shadow, and I wanted something different.  I was happy to hear the distant whistle as the Frisco steamer signaled its departure and then saw the smoke wafting across the Illinois landscape.  Seeing the headlight down the tracks was reason for a sigh of relief.

Ironically, as seen below when 1630 backed toward the station, the smoke cast the front end in shadow!

I also wanted to see how the light played at the crossing at the museum grounds, so I headed that-a-way.

and chided myself for neglecting to bring the tripod -- again.  I was going to shoot some video of the passing, but my hands weren’t quite as steady as I liked, so I stuck with the still shots.

Then I headed back south.  

R. Jake Wood, 2022.

Illinois Railway Museum

#photography #illinoisrailwaymuseum #rail road #frisco 1630

[jwood718]

Illinois Railway Museum with sunlight: Chicago Rapid Transit’s 1754 and 1268 at a brief stop along the museum’s main line track.

The point of the visit was to photograph the equipment out on the road with the sun shining -- unlike Labor Day’s overcast gray.  More later on Jake Rambles n’at.

R. Jake Wood, 2022

#photography #illinoisrailwaymuseum

[bsaschields]

#steamtrain #art #illinoisrailwaymuseum #railroad #locamotive #chicago #travel #luxury #train #lovers #paradise #wadeschields #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/BrN88SYgI9T/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18ij3fubll7ln

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[classicvehiclerentals]

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[nunoxaviermoreira]

Union, IL, Illinois Railway Museum, Thomas Train Ride Opportunity by Mary Warren (9.0+ million views) http://ift.tt/2xcnRmb

#IFTTT #Flickr #unionil #illinoisrailwaymuseum #transportation #vehicles #train #locomotive

[jebphoto]

#daily_crossing #Fuji #IllinoisRailwayMuseum #locomotive #rail #rail_barons #railfan #railfannation #railfanning #railroadtracks #rails #railstagram #railway #railways_of_our_world #rsa_theyards #tracks #train #train_nerds #trains #trains_worldwide #trainspotting #travel #trb_express #vsco #vscofilm #x100t http://ift.tt/2BfXgWi

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