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Animal abusers need to face justice.

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 Out here in Banner Illinois recently a puppy not even a year old was neglected and abused. His name was Pup and he belonged to two suspected junkies a few doors down. They had been reported but Fulton County Animal Control ignored it as it is too much effort to investigate. These neighbors Brett and his  girlfriend Amber let the dog run loose...left him out alone...yelled at him alot...kept him in a small kennel inside...suspected didnt feed him alot and suspected hitting him. Pup was a sweet but skittish dog and held his head lowered signs of abuse. A normal puppy will be happy....playful and wag  its tail. He was skittish and afraid. I was working on gaining his trust to get him help. I was feeding him with help from a friend and giving him water. He was starting to get close to me and trust but soon after he was found dead along i Highway 24. The girlfriend showing little emotion  said Pup was lost and she would go look for him but she didnt. I however got in my SUV and drove all o
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Domestic Abuse

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Domestic violence and abuse isnt always talked about and sometimes gets swept under the rug especially in the court system of the United States. It is scary and there are many forms of it from physical to mental. I have survived both in childhood as well as adulthood. My parents had a bad marriage and often crapped on each other to me. I was heavily bullied in school and in 1993 witnessed my drunk Dad attack my Uncle and was arrested. I also rarely was bought new clothes and food was scarce at times. My 1997 suicide attempt was treated like a family embarrassment and swept under the rug instead of dealing what caused it. While my parents and I developed a better relationship later the 1980's and 1990's were rough. I should have revieved physilogical care then but it is what it is. Now 10 years later I went to mental health and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. While there I met my future husband and we married in 2008. It went well for a f
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Old rail served buildings of Canton, Illinois.

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I have discovered and taken pictures of buildings along Railroad street in Canton, Illinois recently.  I lived in this area as a child and teenager where I paid little mind to certain details like buried rair & ties as well as rail doors for loading on two of the buildings. I do not have the history or know much about any of them but one day I hope too. As a child I often played or walked by these areas. I often ran down to the alley what we called Railroad street to watch TP&W roll on by.  I remember the signal at the diamond of the TP&W and BN line was always green atleast everytime I seen it so other words an eastbound TP&W was in the future unless it always stayed it. By that time BN no longer used their line through town. I remember Second Avenue used to be brick. I once seen a 1978 picture that showed two tracks crossing Second but by 1990 only the main line crossed Second Avenue. The street was paved by the early 90s at the latest. A friend and I as children play
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Two depot's two railroads - Cuba, Illinois.

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In the small Fulton County community of Cuba, Illinois was once the location of two railroad depot's. Two companies crossed each other's tracks and both have their stories to tell I am certain of that. The first was the east to west TP&W line built back in the 1860s -70s timeframe. This once was a Class one railroad that travelled through several states. It had depot's along the way and once the mighty steam hauled passenger trains. This like the other railroad served area mines one being near Cuba. The TP&W depot  like the CB&Q was near where the elevator in Cuba is off Route 97. The depot's are long gone having been torn out probably by the 1970's or the 1980's at the latest. The second TP&W depot still exists but was moved over to Kolbe (Mapleton,Il) where the Keokuk Junction Railway now uses as an office by its car shop. TP&W went through changes after the seventies. For several years it was acquired and operated as the ATSF u
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