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Work train at Adair, IL with a Ferromex SD70ACe on the point, August 2018. Warning!!! Brain fart detected! That's a GE!!! Chalk it up to a senior moment!
Adair, IL. I was going home after work on my motorcycle when I saw this train. I stopped and chased it back to Adair to get this video. This is just with the lights from my motorcycle.
I got off work at Byron Nuclear Station and stopped at the historic depot in Oregon, IL in the fall of 2015. A train has just crossed the Rock River and is getting ready for the climb out of the river valley. It's got a pretty steep hill west of Oregon and will make those engines growl. After it goes by, a train that was in the hole takes it's turn on the main as it makes it's way towards Chicago.
Looked to be a Union Pacific switcher being moved. Don't know anything other than that and that's just a SWAG! The switcher was what caught my attention and I decided to go back and chase it.
CSX and CN units heading towards Beardstown on the Beardstown Sub between Bushnell and Adair, IL. in March, 2018. Almost fell over as I moved backwards!
Bob, after seeing the abandoned roundhouse photos, I looked up Beardstown, which I'd never heard of. Seems to have had a colorful old-west style history with Indian wars and gunfights, but, the railway business sure seems to have died out by the looks of that building.
I note the photos were taken 6 years ago; is that fine looking building still abandoned, or has it been re-purposed?
Beardstown has had quite a colorful history including some wild west related stuff, Abe Lincoln and the infamous Beardstown Ladies. There are other stories that I can't vouch for the veracity of and besides, they wouldn't be appropriate for posting here. The old roundhouse is used, I just don't know by who or for what. At one time there were two roundhouses and two turntables located there. The yard there used to be very active, but is now pretty quiet. There used to be quite a few mines, factories and grain elevators that shipped by rail, but the mines and most of the factories and local elevators are gone.
Work train at Adair, IL with a Ferromex SD70ACe on the point, August 2018. Warning!!! Brain fart detected! That's a GE!!! Chalk it up to a senior moment!
Adair, IL. I was going home after work on my motorcycle when I saw this train. I stopped and chased it back to Adair to get this video. This is just with the lights from my motorcycle.
East meets west? was the Norfolk Southern in the last video?
What kind of bike do you ride? I almost bought a Yamaha Virago when I was young. In hindsight I'm glad I didn't. Almost every guy I know that rides has been hit on our over crowded roads.
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Must have been a permission issue. 
