PICTURES from IL railroad museum

Visited it today with 3 kids. (1 mine and 2 of his friends)

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I also donated a old black adjustable Vise that Mike gave me, to their volunteer repair shop. They were very happy. Their shop was not that well tooled. That vise was also of the same "black iron" appearance as the rest of their stuff. See pix.

In the middle, a little close to the bottom, there are pictures of old giant vertical lathe, giant leblond lathe, and a medium big punch press or some such. All rusting and destined for scrap, probably.

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Ignoramus15946
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Impressive museum and nice looking kids. Hope you all made it to the restroom in time!

Paul

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co_farmer

We did, though at some point we had to race a little bit to get there on time.

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Ignoramus15946

Nice set of pictures.

Mart> Visited it today with 3 kids. (1 mine and 2 of his friends)

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Martin H. Eastburn

Today was an unusually sunny day. I was very surprised by the brightness. (I was also surprised by 80 degrees of heat at the end of October). Anyway, the extremely bright light really helped with picture clarity, especially when taking pictures of objects while moving.

For example, this dilapidated shed was photographed from a moving train (30 MPH).

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Click on the picture and view it full size. The shutted was obviously very fast.

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Ignoramus15946

Last night at 8pm it was 76. Now at 9pm it is 54. Front line, 1.02" and a strong north West wind.

Typical to be warm on my birthday - next Sunday - often have a fire with the door open :-) That was in the 80's - 2000. Now the wood is work so we wait for cold. :-)

Martin

Mart> >> Nice set of pictures.

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Martin H. Eastburn

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