Amtrak 382 Carl Sandburg Quincy, IL 10-21-18
Here is Amtrak's eastbound Carl Sandburg train #382 at Quincy, Illinois, powered by SC-44 #4623 This video features the Carl Sandburg arriving at the station in Quincy, loading passengers, and departing for Chicago at 5:37 PM just a few minutes behind schedule. The train consists of the standard consist of the Charger and a mix of Amfleet/Horizon coaches/cafe car. - Enjoy!
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Galesburg Residents Celebrate 'Big Read'
Galesburg Public Library welcomed visitors to the second floor of its building for an Anti-Book Burning Kickoff Party.
The kickoff was part of the 6th installment of the The Big Read event in Galesburg, encouraging participants to read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Galesburg Mayor Sal Garza opened the event with a small speech stating the importance of reading in today's youth and why reading is important.
Well, I think that The Big Read offers a significant option in terms of what's going on today with the gaming and basically with just this bombardment of so many options that you can see over the TV or other electronic devices.
Those in attendance were allowed to take a free copy of Fahrenheit 451, as well as a free bookmark.
During the event, actor Jeff Cervantez performed a one-man show that was influenced by the book.
Jeff says that the Galesburg Public Library has done its fair share in getting kids to read.
The times I visited here, I see a multitude of kids sit down, grabbing their favorite books and just having a time, you know. And I think that's great.
Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 and takes place in a futuristic United States where reading or possession of books is banished. In the book, firemen don't douse fires, but set fires to books or homes of people who are keeping them.
The event was put together and hosted by reference librarian Karly Steele.
She says the library has tried to bring back the importance of reading to Galesburg.
We are really trying to bring reading back to the center of our community. And Fahrenheit 451 kind of focuses around censorship and the idea of book burning and the value of books and literacy, so we really thought that it would be a good fit.
The event concluded with hot dogs and s'mores being served in the library's storybook garden.
Members of the Galesburg Fire Department Rescue Squad were in the garden and demonstrated to guests how a firefighter puts on their uniform.
The Big Read is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
INSANE non-stop action on the BNSF at Galesburg, Illinois 4-29-18 Part 2 of 2
Note this is a re-upload as I had to go back and fix some minor typos and a few other things after I originally uploaded it, anyways here is part 2 of a 2 part series. On Sunday April 29th, 2018, me and a buddy of mine went up to Galesburg, Illinois for an all day railfanning outing. From around 7:30 am to about 8:30pm, over 12 hours total. Galesburg is the main hub for least six major BNSF subdivisions. there's the Mendota, Peoria, Brookfield, Ottumwa, Chillicothe and Barstow subdivisions and the massive BNSF Galesburg yard/locomotive facility off of the Brookfield sub. all of which branch out of Galesburg and therefore creating non-stop entertainment of passing freights, yard switchers and 8 daily Amtrak trains. I think you'll agree that's not a bad accuracy for the title. We mostly hung out at the Galesburg Amtrak station and Railroad Museum and also made a run to Peck Park to to see if there was any trains running on the Chillicothe sub and turns out it was mostly dead on this day. despite this I still can't complain! I caught a record 24 trains in the 12 hours that I was there!
Non-stop action, foreign power (a lot of CN for some reason), meets, and several hornshows made for a really awesome day at Galesburg! - Enjoy!
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Non-Stop Flow Of Trains In Galesburg, IL
Locations include Galesburg Amtrak station, Knox Highway overpass (yard), Cameron, IL (C.P. 1699 and the Chilli/Ottumwa flyover), and Peck Park. Also included at the end is 2 Amtrak regional trains meeting in Princeton, IL.
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At Issue #2939 - Galesburg Mayor
The guests discuss how the city is addressing the lead level in water for older houses, economic development including Iron Spike Brewing and a possible boutique hotel, the timetable for the opening of the new National Railroad Hall of Fame, the city’s comprehensive plan, its logistics park and how to bring jobs to the area and have the properly trained workforce for those jobs.
Chicago bound Amtrak #39 stops @ Galesburg, IL as BNSF ES44DC sits in Sun 7/16/14 00003
Chicago bound Amtrak #39 stops @ Galesburg, IL as BNSF ES44DC sits in Sun with former Sante Fe Observation car and inspection train
Helicopter Ride Over The Lake of The Ozarks, Missouri.
My sister came to visit me in Missouri for a couple of months. She has never been on an airplane, let alone a helicopter, so I took her to the lake and surprised her with a ride. What fun!!
BNSF Coal train at Galesburg, IL
A BNSF coal train pulls out of the yard and passes the Galesburg Amtrak station. Power is a pair of GE ES44AC's.Watch the pedestrians cross the tracks while the gates are still down and their view is still blocked by the train.
Interesting People #405 Lonnie Stewart
An interview with Lonnie Stewart, a Peoria-based artist and sculptor whose commissions have taken him throughout the world.
Lonnie Stewart, internationally recognized artist and sculptor, has created portraits of such luminaries as Mother Teresa; Diana, Princess of Wales; Pope John Paul II and the Maharana of Udaipur, India. In addition, he has sculpted powerful, life-like busts of subjects ranging from former President and Eureka College alum, Ronald Reagan, to the future Saint, Mother Teresa. Lonnie was born in Galesburg, Illinois; his family soon moved to DeLong, Illinois, population 56. He practices his profession from studios located in Peoria, Illinois and Charleston, South Carolina.
Original Air Date: 4/29/2009
President Obama 2013 Knox College Speech Reactions: Kelsey Green
Kelsey was selected to sit behind President Barack Obama during his speech at Knox College. She is a Carl Sandburg graduate and will be attending Western Illinois University in the fall of 2013. She talks about her impression of the speech.
Carl Sandburg's 79th Birthday / No Time for Heartaches / Fire at Malibu
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 -- July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He was the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Sandburg indubitably an American in every pulse-beat.
Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg, Illinois, to parents of Swedish ancestry. At the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. From the age of about fourteen until he was seventeen or eighteen, he worked as a porter at the Union Hotel barbershop in Galesburg.[1] After that he was on the milk route again for eighteen months. He then became a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of Kansas.[2] After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg,[3] he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha. He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. Later he wrote poetry, history, biographies, novels, children's literature, and film reviews. Sandburg also collected and edited books of ballads and folklore. He spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina.
Sandburg volunteered to go to the military and was stationed in Puerto Rico with the 6th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish--American War, disembarking at Guánica, Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898. Sandburg was never actually called to battle. He attended West Point for just two weeks, before failing a mathematics and grammar exam. Sandburg returned to Galesburg and entered Lombard College, but left without a degree in 1903.
He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and joined the Social Democratic Party, the name by which the Socialist Party of America was known in the state. Sandburg served as a secretary to Emil Seidel, socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912.
Sandburg met Lilian Steichen at the Social Democratic Party office in 1907, and they married the next year. Lilian's brother was the photographer Edward Steichen. Sandburg with his wife, whom he called Paula, raised three daughters.
The Sandburgs moved to Harbert, Michigan, and then to suburban Chicago, Illinois. They lived in Evanston, Illinois, before settling at 331 S. York Street in Elmhurst, Illinois, from 1919 to 1930. Sandburg wrote three children's books in Elmhurst, Rootabaga Stories, in 1922, followed by Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), and Potato Face (1930). Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag (1927), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America (1928) in Elmhurst. The family moved to Michigan in 1930. The Sandburg house at 331 W. York Street, Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot.
Sandburg's collection, The War Years was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. His Complete Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.[4]
In 1945 he moved to Connemara, a 246-acre rural estate in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Here he produced a little over a third of his total published work, and lived with his wife, daughters, and two grandchildren until dying of natural causes in 1967.
Sandburg had his ashes interred under Remembrance Rock, a 5-foot-high granite boulder located behind his birth house.[5][6]
Sandburg supported the civil rights movement, and contributed to the NAACP.
UD Tower - Nonstop Trains in Joliet, IL
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Iowa Pacific Full Dome and Sleeper on Amtrak #5
The westbound California Zephyr passes the town of Agency, Iowa on July 8, 2017. A pair of private cars from Iowa Pacific is on the end of Amtrak #5 this evening. The first one is a full-length dome car. The second is a sleeping car in Illinois Central colors. These two are on a Best of the West trip from Uncommon Journeys:
This train will be filmed the next morning at Keenesburg, Colorado by YouTube user Keenbug-Too:
Consist:
Amtrak 13 GE P42DC
Amtrak 203 GE P42DC
61065 baggage car
39046 transition dormitory car
31024 baggage-coach
34041 coach
31044 baggage-coach
33023 sightseer lounge
38063 dining car
32022 sleeping car
32001 sleeping car
32067 sleeping car
SLRG (ex-ATSF) 551 Sky View Big Dome
SLRG 9115 Baton Rouge sleeping car
BNSF Railway
The BNSF Railway is the second-largest freight railroad network in North America, second to the Union Pacific Railroad (its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight), and is one of seven North American Class I railroads. It has three transcontinental routes that provide high-speed links between the western and eastern United States. BNSF trains traveled over 169 million miles in 2010, more than any other North American railroad. BNSF's main competitor is the Union Pacific Railroad, the nation's largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S and share trackage rights over thousands of miles of track.
According to corporate press releases, the BNSF Railway is among the top transporters of intermodal freight in North America. It also hauls bulk cargo. For instance, the railroad hauls enough coal to generate roughly ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States.
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JCCC Board of Trustees Meeting for July 17, 2014
The monthly meeting of the JCCC Board of Trustees which was held on July 17, 2014.
Knox College's 172nd Commencement Ceremony
On Sunday, June 4 Knox College held their 172nd Commencement with commencement speaker, actress, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Eva Longoria.
Knox College's 171st Commencement Ceremony
Knox College's 171st Commencement exercises on the South Lawn of Old Main. Illinois Senator Richard Durbin will deliver the Commencement Address and honorary degrees will be awarded to Brenda Child, Chad Pregracke, and Richard Durbin. Tanika Pradhan will deliver the Senior Class remarks.