Anyone know what weekend/day this falls on this year? I’m trying to figure out my calendar for June, and would like to make the trip down there again this year.
I went last year while visiting family and it was awesome! It is REALLY worth the trip for any railfans near there. If you can, get over o Carl Sandburg College, model trains galore over there and tones of vendors!
I won’t be going this year though, but oh well!
at www.galesburgrailroaddays.org which has all the info on rr days june 24-25.
Man, I’m slipping- if I’d have Googled it, I would’ve found that site. Thanks!
Brian,
That is also the weekend that the 261 is running trips out of Milwaukee.
www.261.com for details.
Jay
You would have to tell me that.[banghead]
Oh well, I can’t afford tickets to ride it, and I already have pictures of it going up the Mississippi, so I think I’ll still head to Galesburg. Besides, there are a couple of attractions there that I didn’t get to see last summer.
I’d like to get to that one of these years, my Dad worked in Galesburg in the late 30’s. Interesting to hear him tell how in the evening people would walk down the to the RR depots to see the Denver Zephyr and Super Chief make their stops.