Eastbound Chicago, North Shore, and Milwaukee Railroad interurban coach. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. July 1988.

I was standing in what was normally a flowing creek, on a July 1988 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois USA. Illinois was experiencing an extreme "Drought" condition that summer. I was standing on dry mud, that was normally one or two feet of flowing water running under the wooden trestle seen here. The grass was turning brown in many locations, and the museums steam train operations had experienced a lineside brush fire or two, from coal burning Frisco Railroad No# 1630. Many Illinois farmers had lost crops that summer. By the conditions being as dry as they were, I had the fortunate pleasure, of capturing a scene like this on the museums operating mainline.