Howdy from Havana ,Illinois.

Thanks for my cousin helping out for the holidays was able to fill up the gas tank and was allowed one trip to get out of the apartment before I went ape shit.  Seriously this weather and season I hate it I'm indoors more because it's so cold. We got the car running and thought it'd be a good idea to drive it for a while so I went railfanning. I was aiming for Iowa Interstate but didn't luck out there.  You win some you lose some so not too upset about it.  That line and TP&W I have the  worst luck. IAIS I've had better luck due to a friend giving a heads up or in a group.  TP&W I'm never over there the same time they  are hence why no luck with them.  I will one day though even if I have to drive east to Indiana.  I guess in the Spring I go to Monticello to the museum I can  follow Route 24 out for a ways and hope i get lucky. Anyways I go to Peoria and see KJRY sitting around Bridge Junction so I  find a spot to park ( probably shouldn'

My interest have sort of been moving beyond just trains and abandoned  railroad lines and onto the date on tracks on top of it.  I've been making a  mental note to pay attention and watch for dates when i go out.  If it strikes my interest will photograph. I was stoked on the 1926 rail i noticed up by Lewistown.  I wonder if there is any older in the area somewhere?  Okay I've crossed over from just awkward to weird now it's offical. ha. 1926:  Rail was dated 1926 on a siding north of Lewistown, Illinois which was CB&Q-BN and now  BNSF.  That siding  looks in terrible condition on the whole thing but a wash out in this one location I noticed a rail from 1926.  There's an old abandoned BN flatcar to the north of it that has been sitting for years. Not sure if BNSF will ever use it again or bother with  scrapping.  Probably not anytime soon. 1955:  Havana, Illinois near where I used to work at Intermet is a 1955 rail and the line is s

Probably not  worth blogging but any train i see keeps me going in  the way of keeping going strong and bouncing from depression. lol. Today's been a hard day  depression wise and the holiday's are usually  tough anyway so when I heard about  a train making an eastbound run back tonight I thought i'd check it out just to keep sane....well sane enough. KJRY  headed back to Kolbe with 38 cars with Prex #2003 in the lead followed by #1750-1761-1752. I estimated after being told a while back it takes four hours to get from La Harpe to Canton a time frame to go park by the tracks  at 5th Avenue. It was a night time run so this is the only crossing in my town that has any significant lighting.  I see the conductor pulled up in the company vehicle  which tipped me off it was coming. I film it at the crossing and some dude in a  white truck behind me turned around in the middle of the road to avoid waiting on the train.  KJRY is a shortline so they rarely have very lon

I'm relieved to see the KJRY train this morning more than I would any other time I look for them because it restores my sanity some. Yes, a train restores sanity sad but true. When I say this I mean I  was told yesterday by my brother n law Scott that he thought he had heard a train and I was like what Train?  I didn't hear any train and Canton is small enough you could hear it from downtown so it became a puzzler trying to think  back if I heard anything in case i zoned out when running errands. I guess not.  I don't think i'm that insane I  wouldn't hear a train.  It's not like the F units aren't loud and that GP20 #2003 has a unique sounding horn so unless you were  out by Walmart or way across town somewhere or even a mile out or more  then you would hear something even if faint. I have to wonder if he was trolling me or thought he heard it and made a mistake.  We also have Duck Creek Power plant just south of town by three mile